Search Euclid for Spanish-language books and on Latin American & Spanish topics

To find materials located at any of Emory's libraries, search EUCLID, Emory's online library catalog.

The contents of books and articles are not searchable in EUCLID. Read Finding a Journal Article in the Woodruff Library.

When searching EUCLID by subject, use the Browse search mode. Browsing puts you in an alphabetical list based on your subject heading. The terms for the headings themselves are established by the Library of Congress.  A multi-volume set of Library of Congress (LC) subject headings is available at the Woodruff Library Reference desk.

Use the Browse mode also when looking up periodical titles. It saves a lot of time.

A sample list of LC subject headings for Spanish language and literature follows (capitalization is not necessary):

Spanish Language
Spanish Language Dictionaries [Catalan, English, etc.]

Spanish Literature
Spanish Literature [To 1500; Classical Period, 20th Century, etc.]
Spanish Literature [Bibliography; Criticism and Interpretation; Translations into English, etc.]

Spanish American Literature [refers to Spanish literature of Latin America]
Hispanic American Literature [refers to Spanish literature of the U.S.]
Latin American Literature [refers to the literatures (Spanish, Portuguese, French) of Latin America treated collectively]

Argentine [Cuban, Chilean, etc.] Literature [Drama, Fiction, Poetry, etc.]

Carpentier, Alejo [Bibliography; Criticism and Interpretation, Interviews, etc.]

Databases for Topics on Spain & Latin America

Access to most of the electronic resources listed below is limited to Emory University faculty, students, and staff. See Information on Accessing Databases

To identify other databases and electronic journal collections that provide references or full text for journal articles, go to Databases@Emory.

ClasePeriódica (CLASE and PERIODICA)
1975 to present

ClasePeriódica is a combined periodical index produced at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Articles, essays, book reviews and other information are indexed from journals published in 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries as well as publications with a Pan-American focus. Subject coverage includes the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. This database does not provide links to the full-text of articles.

Dialnet

A table of contents index from the Universidad de La Rioja that provides citations for journals published in Spain. Includes journals with Latin American content. Searching does NOT include subject headings or descriptors. Some citations include link to full-text of article.

FRANCIS
1984 to present

Especially strong in the humanities. Does not cover peninsular Spanish literature but is very good for Latin American literature, literary theory and literary criticism.

Fuente académica
Coverage varies

Fuente académica is a periodical index of scholarly journals from Spain and Latin America with links to the full-text of all articles. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. Includes a few titles in Portuguese and English.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
1936 to present

Covers topics in both the social sciences and the humanities and is very useful for researching language or literature.

HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
1970/74 to present

Indexes primarily Spanish language journals and magazines. Covers all areas of study.

ìInforme! (Revistas en español en Infotrac)
1997 to present

ìInforme! is a periodicals index covering both U.S. Latino and Latin American popular magazines and journals (presently about 100). Subject and keyword searching are not always effective but users will find links to the full-text of articles.

Latin American Newsstand
2005 to present

Latin American Newsstand is a full-text database of over 35 leading newspaper titles from Latin America (including Brazil and Puerto Rico). Also included are regional magazines and wire services. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly so that the database is cross-searchable. Citations are available for articles in all the source publications. Abstracts allow researchers to save time by allowing them to identify the complete articles they need. Full-text articles are also instantly accessible for all of the titles.

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
1990 to present

LAPTOC provides bibliographical citations to journal articles in over 800 periodicals and journals from 29 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Searching is keyword only from the table of contents for author and title and does not include searching by subject headings.

Latino Literature
19th century to present A full-text collection of U.S. Latino literature. When complete, it will include 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 450 plays, representing the Chicano culture and all the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States. Although the collection includes materials from the 19th century, the vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to the present. .

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
1973 to present

Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

MLA International Bibliography
1963 to present The first stop for research on literature.

Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro
TESO is a full text database containing more than 800 plays written by 16 dramatists from sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. Each play is reproduced in full, including the "Preliminaries" which contain "aprobaciones", "censuras", and "privilegios." The editorial board of TESO selected the first editions of each volume and avoided facsimiles. The coding has been adapted for dramatic works, allowing users to limit searches to specific elements of the plays. Researchers can browse the complete list of dramas in the database and then select any work for display, starting at the beginning or going directly to a particular act and scene.

Webpages from and about Spain and Latin America

Centro Virtual Cervantes
A general site devoted to Spanish culture.

Iberian Studies Web
A multi-disciplinary site covering Spain and Portugal.

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
A vast, comprehensive, must-see website produced at the University of Texas at Austin

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Books in Reference on Latin America and Spain

Biography

There is no single national biography for Spain as there is for some other countries. One may use any of the three general encyclopedias or many of the literary dictionaries and handbooks listed below to find biographical information. Many Latin American countries do have a national biography and these can be located in EUCLID by doing a "browse" search in Subject on the country name followed by the words "biography dictionaries." For example, MEXICO BIOGRAPHY DICTIONARIES.

Index to Spanish American Collective Biography 4 volumes (1981-1985)
Reference Z1609 .B6M86

Identifies which of over 1000 biographical dictionaries contains information on a particular person. It covers people from Andean countries, Caribbean and Central American countries, River Plate countries and Mexico.

Indice biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica 4 volumes (1990)
Reference CT1345 .I53 1990

Like the above title, this lets one find out which biographical dictionaries contain information on a person.

Dictionaries
A. GENERAL

Diccionario de la lengua castellana, en que se explica el verdadero sentido de las voces, su naturaleza y calidad, con las phrases o modos de hablar, los proverbios o refranes, y otras cosas convenientes al uso de la lengua... 6 volumes (1726-1739)
Reference PC4625 .A3

The first dictionary of the Real Academia Española, this is known as the "diccionario de autoridades" because of the important authors cited.

Diccionario de la lengua española 21. ed. (1992)
Reference PC4625 .A34 1992

A standard work which includes etymologies. The library also has editions for 1899, 1925, 1939, 1956, 1970 and 1984.

B. SPANISH AMERICA

There are a number of general dictionaries of americanismos as well as dictionaries for individual countries in the area Reference PC4822 - PC4912. See also corresponding numbers in the stacks. The subject heading for these are: SPANISH LANGUAGE PROVINCIALISMS (iinsert name of country here) or LATIN AMERICA DICTIONARIES SPANISH LANGUAGE PROVINCIALISMS.

C. HISTORICAL

Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (1960- ) In progess
Reference PC4625 .A35 1960

Definitions, often with etymology, are accompanied with dated examples of use. The earlier edition of 1933 was never completed.

Enciclopedia del idioma: diccionario histórico y moderno de la lengua española (siglos XII al XX), etimológico, tecnológico, regional e hispanoamericano 3 volumes (1958)
Reference PC4667 .A4

This dictionary gives etymology, morphlogy and definitions with citations of use and dates of appearance in earlier dictionaries.

Diccionario medieval español. 2 volumes (1986)
Reference PC4715 .Z5A465 1986

Covers the tenth to the fifteenth centuries.

Diccionario del español medieval (1987- ) In progress
Reference PC4715 .Z5M8 1987

An etymological and historical dictionary, this defines terms with examples from writers of the period.

D. ETYMOLOGICA

Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico 6 volumes (1980-1991)
Reference PC4580 .C6 1980

By Juan Corominas, this comprehensive dictionary includes the modern languages and dialects of Spain and Spanish America as well as pre-Roman Iberian and vulgar Arabic.

Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico. 3. ed. (1989)
Ref PC4580 .G33 1989

In two parts: in the first part, words are listed in alphabetical order and reference is made to the principal root of each and its particular number in the second part, where full information is given

E. SYNONYMS AND USAGE

Diccionario ideológico de la lengua española 2. ed. (1963)
Ref PC4591 .C3

In three parts: Sinóptica is a general scheme of ideas and themes; Analógica is a listing of words grouped by association, much like Roget's thesaurus; Alphabética contains definitions of words listed in the Analógica.

Diccionario de uso de español 2. ed. 2 volumes (1998)
Ref PC4625 .M6 1998

By Maria Moliner. Provides guidance for difficult constructions and troublesome expressions, instructs on proper usage and lists synonyms.

Gran diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos 4. ed. (1991)
Ref PC4591 .G67 1991

Dissertations

Dissertation Abstracts
1861 to present

This lists dissertations from the United States as well as selected ones from Canada and, more selectively, Europe. Abstracts, or summaries, are provided for those dissertations listed after June, 1980.

Catalogo de Tesis doctorales This site reproduces a number of dissertations in electronic form; they can have been accepted at any university in the world but must have been written in a hispanic language.

Encyclopedias

Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana 70 volumes (1907-1930) Suplementos anuales (1945/48 to present)
Reference AE61 .E6

This is one of the world's great encyclopedias. The basic set is accompanied by a 10 volume appendix (1930-1933) and annual supplements. Often referred to as "Espasa-Calpe."

Enciclopedia hispánica 18 volumes (1992-1993)
Reference AE61 .E52 1992

This is a good medium-level enyclopedia.

Gran enciclopedia Rialp 25 volumes (1989)
Reference AE61 .G721

A fine general encyclopedia.

Guides to Reference Sources

Reference guides list the bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes and other works that have been created to assisted researchers working in a subject area. Often these guides will list important journals and primary and secondary works in the field.