
Teresa Chapa
Librarian for Latin America, Iberia and Latina/o Studies
tchapa@unc.edu
Davis Reference Desk
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Introduction to Library Research
This Library of Congress classification system holds true for any library in the world using the LC system. For example, Spanish language dictionaries will be classed between PC4001-PC4977; Spanish literature will be in the call number range PQ6001-PQ8929, with literature of Spanish America within that, PQ7081-PQ8560.
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Can't find the article, book, or report you need at our library? You can request it from another library through interlibrary loan.
Academic Search Premier
Abstracts & references for articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade & general publications, & references for The NY Times.
ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)
Provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded(TM), Social Sciences Citation Index(R), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index(R).
JSTOR
JSTOR provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.
Project Muse
Provides access to the full text of more than 40 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Literature Resource Center
LRC contains the text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selected critical excerpts or full text articles from various sets of literary criticism. It is possible in LRC to search for authors individually or to search for "Authors by Type," limiting by period, movement, nationality, etc. The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides bio-critical articles on authors. The ongoing print version of the DLB (Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 - To Date) provides excellent illustrative material not available in the electronic version
MLA International Bibliography
A major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore and cultural studies.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Indexes Latin American topics in the humanities and social sciences, 1935 - present.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Not limited to just literary journals, HAPI indexes a variety of subject areas. Indexing from 1970 - present.
Sabin Americana: 1500-1926
An online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
More Article Databases | How Do I Find Articles? | How Do I Find an Article if it is not Full-Text? | How Do I Distinguish Different Types of Journals?
Film Finder
Search for films at the Media Resource Center (basement of Undergraduate Library) by country, title, release year, director, description, or genre.
The Institute for the Study of the Americas Film Collection
The Institute for the Study of the Americas houses a collection of videos/DVDs and resource materials.
Latin American Newstand
Latin American Newsstand provides full-text content in Spanish, Portuguese, and English from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature [electronic resource]
Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism
Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures
Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature
Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World
LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center)
Containing over 12,000 unique URLs, LANIC is one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet. Maintained at the University of Texas at Austin.