Subject Guides
Spanish
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Databases
Fuente Academica
Nearly 200 full-text periodicals from the Spanish-speaking world. Thirteen are peer-reviewed. Includes Revista de Arquitectura, Estudios Sobre Educacion, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Comunicacion y Sociedad, Revista de Ciencia Politica, and Revista Historia.
Full-text articles from the most popular Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals.
MedicLatina
A Spanish-language collection of medical research and investigative journals published in Latin America. Full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
Academic Search Premier
An interdisciplinary database that provides full text articles in English only.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline in English only.
MLA Bibliography
Covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from 4,400 journals and series worldwide. Coverage from 1926 to the present.
Global Road Warrior
Provides business and travel information for countries around the world. Sections include Country Facts, Society & Culture, Health & Medical, Technical/Electrical and more. Also included is a Resource Guide that provides useful and practical information on how to do basic things such as making a phone call into or out of a foreign country.
Dictionaries
Real Academia española (electronic resource)
Oxford business Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish/Spanish-English) (electronic resource)
Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (electronic resource)
Diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos
Diccionario panhispánico de dudas
Nuevo diccionario esencial de la lengua española
Encyclopedias
Enciclopedia Planeta (electronic resource)
It features 145,000 articles plus timelines, an atlas, and a dictionary in Spanish.
Enciclopedia Juvenil (electronic resource)
Spanish elementary encyclopedia, with images, videos, and Spanish language learning materials specifically designed for younger learners.
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By subject search
Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.
Examples:
Spanish language
Spanish literature
These subject searches will be live links to the catalog.
By call number
If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.
| Subclass PQ | |
| PQ6001-8929 | Spanish literature |
| PQ6001-6168 | History and criticism |
| PQ6001-6056 | General |
| PQ6056 | Moorish-Spanish literature |
| PQ6058-6060 | Early to 1500 |
| PQ(6061)-6073 | Modern |
| PQ6075-6098 | Poetry |
| PQ6098.7-6129 | Drama |
| PQ6131-6153 | Prose |
| PQ(6155)-(6167) | Folk literature |
| PQ6168 | Juvenile literature (General) |
| PQ6170-6269 | Collections |
| PQ6170-6174.9 | General |
| PQ6174.95-6215 | Poetry |
| PQ6217-(6241) | Drama |
| PQ6247-6264 | Prose |
| PQ(6265)-6269 | Translations |
| PQ6271-6498 | Individual authors and works to 1700 |
| PQ6500-6576 | Individual authors, 1700-ca. 1868 |
| PQ6600-6647 | Individual authors, 1868-1960 |
| PQ6650-6676 | Individual authors, 1961-2000 |
| PQ6700-6726 | Individual authors, 2001- |
| PQ7000-8929 | Provincial, local, colonial, etc. |
| PQ7081-8560 | Spanish America |
Google Search: Spanish
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