DOHERTY LIBRARY USER GUIDE
THE SPANISH LANGUAGE
CONTENTS:
1. P E R I O D I C A L S A N D I N D E X I N G S O U R C E S
A. DOHERTY LIBRARY PERIODICAL COLLECTIONS
B. NEWS & NEWSPAPER SOURCES
2. L O C A T I N G S P A N I S H -L A N G U A G E B O O K S
3. R E F E R E N C E S O U R C E S
A. SPANISH DICTIONARIES, WORD GUIDES & TRANSLATORS
B . E N C Y C L O P E D I A S A N D O T H ER R E F E R E N C E T O O L S
C. LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS IN GENERAL
4. S EL E C T E D W E B S I T E S
SOURCES KEY:
= online library database
= print resource
à = free www site
1. P ERIODICALS AND I NDEXING S OURCES –
¡Informe! Revistas en Espanol. – Abstracts (some full-text) from various Spanish-language journals
and popular magazines; Searching must be done in Spanish.
Fuente Academia. – Multidisciplinary, scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish
publishers; mostly Spanish with some English-language sources.
ClasePeriodica. – CLASE indexes Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and
humanities; PERIODICA covers journals in science and technology; Multi-lingual.
Economía y Negocios. - Spanish-language business and economics periodicals
MedicLatina. – A collection of Spanish-language medical research and journals (from Latin America).
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index. – REF F 1408.H24 (Silent Reading Room, Doherty
Library) Covers about 400 social science and humanities journals dealing with Central and South America,
Mexico, U. S. -Mexico border region, the U. S., etc.; We have 1980 to the near present.
JSTOR. –
(Scholarly journals) Hispania, a quarterly journal of the Association of Teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese and Hispanic Review, a quarterly journal published by U. Penn. devoted to research in the
Hispanic languages and literatures.
MLA International Bibliography.
– International literature, language & linguistics journals, books,
dissertations & more; MLA is of most use to our students taking Spanish literature classes. Sources are
multilingual.
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A. DOHERTY LIBRARY PERIODICAL COLLECTIONS
To access our library’s journal and newspaper holdings, search the Journal Holdings A to Z list at
the Doherty Library Web page ( http://library.stthom.edu/ ). Use the FIND option there to search for
individual title holdings.
B.
NEWS & NEWSPAPER SOURCES
Lexis Nexis Academic. - Search Spanish
language news sources by selecting the News
section of the database, then selecting NonEnglish Language News as the news category
and Spanish Language News for the type of
news source.
à Mexican Newspapers Online – University
of Texas at San Antonio.
http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Research/Subject/mexic
annewsguide.html - A list of links to web pages
by major Mexican newspapers and periodicals.
à Reforma. http://www.reforma.com/ Mexican daily newspaper featuring national and
international headlines, sports, opinion, and
culture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news// Spanish language news site from the BBC;
includes audio.
à La Journada Virtual (en Internet).
¡Informe! Revistas en Espanol.
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ - The Spanish
online edition of Mexico's leading independent
newspaper.
à BBC en Espanol.
Country Watch.
à Yahoo / Telemundo Noticias.
http://espanol.news.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo news
service en Español
2. LOCATING SPANISH-LANGUAGE BOOKS
à DOHERTY LIBRARY CATALOG. – For books & DVDs owned by U.S.T.
TIP: Select the Advanced search mode. Use the Limits option to limit to Spanish language
materials before you search.
WORLDCAT. – For books, DVDs and more owned by 1000’s of libraries across the U.S. & the
world.
TIP: You can limit to Spanish language materials by selecting that option before you search.
à GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH. – Free web
TIP: There is no way to limit to Spanish language materials. Conduct your keyword or phrase
search in Spanish (not-English) and you will get lots of Spanish language books returned in your
search.
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3. R EFERENCE S OURCES
A.
SPANISH DICTIONARIES, WORD GUIDES & TRANSLATORS
à Alta-Vista’s Babel Fish Translation. http://world.altavista.com/ - Translate from Spanish to
English or from English to Spanish
American Heritage Spanish Dictionary: Spanish/English, Ingles/Espanol.
REF PC 4640 .A47 2001
à Basic Spanish Words With Pronunciation.
http://members.aol.com/alvareze/spanish/frame.html - Basic words: vowels, alphabet, numbers,
days of the week, months, food/eating, family, directions, translators and dictionaries. Your
computer will need audio to hear pronunciations.
Collins Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary: Unabridged.
Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola.
REF PC 4640 .S595
(R.A.E.) REF PC 4625.D5 1984 v. 1-2
Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola, Vigesima Segunda Edicion.
(R.A.E.)
REF PC 4625.D5 .A3 2001
Dictionary of Latin American Spanish Phrases and Expressions.
REF PC 4822 .H36 2002
à Dictionary of Spanish.
www.spanishdict.com - English-Spanish / Spanish-English.
Includes audio pronunciations.
Gran diccionario espa~nol-ingles = English-Spanish dictionary.
REF PC4640.G73 1993
Hamel’s Bilingual Dictionary of Mexican Spanish = Diccionario Bilingue Hamel de
Mexicanismos. REF PC 4832 .H35 2002
Larousse Gran Diccionario: Ingles-Espanol = Espanol-Ingles.
NTC’s Dictionary of Latin American Spanish.
REF PC 4640 .L393 2004
Olivares. REF PC 4822 .O65 1997
Wiley’s English-Spanish, Spanish-English Business Dictionary.
REF HB 61.K323
Subject keyword search spanish language dictionaries in the library’s catalog to find more.
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B.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
AND
O T H ER R E F E R E N C E T O O L S
Enciclopedia Hispánica. REF AE 31 .E56 2003 v. 1-14 (En Español)
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture.
REF DP 233.5 .E63 1999
Encyclopedia Latina: History Culture and Society in the United States.
REF E 184.S75 E587 2005 v. 1-5
A Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language: A selected annotated guide to
Spanish, Spanish-American, and Chicano bibliography, literature, linguistics, journals, and
other source materials.
REF PC 4071.B54 1983
Country Watch. – A database of country information, including brief historical & political
background, statistics, and news. Selecting Country Wire provides daily (English-language) news
coverage for 192 countries and features up-to-date articles from regional news wire services across
the globe.
C.
LANGUAGE &
LINGUISTICS IN
GENERAL
Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics.
P29.E48 2006 v.1-14
Key Concept in Languages and Linguistics. REF P 29 .T687 1999
4. S ELECTED W EB S ITES
à Enlaces en Espanol.
http://www.sanantonio.gov/library/web/enlaces.asp - San Antonio Public
Library’s subject directory of Spanish language Internet sites.
à Google Espanol.
http://www.google.com/intl/es/ - Spanish language version of the Google
search engine.
à Yahoo! En Espanol. http://telemundo.yahoo.com/ - Spanish language version of Yahoo!.
à Yahoo! Spain.
http://es.yahoo.com/ - The Yahoo! English-language guide to the country and all
its regions.
à Yahoo! Mexico.
http://mx.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo!'s directory, products, and services catered
especially for Mexican people around the world.
à LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
“LANIC is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at U. T.
Austin. “LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin
America.”
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à El Clamor Publico Digital Archive.
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/collections/el_clamor_publico/
- “El Clamor Publico was the first Spanish-language newspaper in California after the American
occupation. It was founded by the former Spanish editor of the Los Angeles Star, Francisco P.
Ramirez, a 19-year old printer; Published weekly between July 1855 and August 1859. The initially
moderate paper evolved into an activist tabloid and espoused strong political views generally in
support of the Mexicanos.” Poetry and literature were also featured in this paper. The searchable
digital archive is from the Huntington Library at USC.
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