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Academic Search Ultimate Why search here? Academic Search Ultimate is a great place to start your search for both popular and scholarly articles on almost any topic. What's included? It contains a large number of journals, the majority of which are peer-reviewed, from numerous subject areas. This resource features mostly full text content, and goes as far back as 1865.
Credo Reference Why search here? Credo Reference is a searchable collection of over 500 reference books across a wide variety of subjects from top publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Wiley and Elsevier.What's included? Use Credo to help define your topic and then use the links on topic pages to discover more in-depth information in books and journals, find thousands of art images and connect your ideas using concept mapping.

DialNET Spanish Language Journals DialNet indexes Spanish language journals (and English-language journals about relevant Spanish topics) in science, art, literature, humanities and the social sciences.

Gale Literary Sources Why search here? Gale Literary Sources brings together several literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in new ways.What's included? Gale Literary Sources provides combined access to Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, Gale eBooks, and Contemporary Authors Online. Search it to find thousands of articles on literature as well as background information about authors, historical trends, critical theory, and much more.
Gale eBooks Why search here? Gale eBooks (formally Gale Virtual Reference Library) is a searchable online general reference collection. You can search across all the reference books or select a subject area. What's included? Gale eBooks includes titles in the arts, biography, business, education, the environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science and the social sciences.

Handbook of Latin American Studies A bibliography created by scholars on Latin American works. It rotates every year between works selected from the social sciences or the humanities.

JSTOR Why search here? JSTOR provides access to a wide variety of scholarly journals and monographs in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Use JSTOR to find historical information rather than current articles.What's included? Thousands of full-text scholarly articles, some dating back to the 1800s.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Why search here? MLA Bibliography includes two parts: MLA Bibliography and MLA Directory of Periodicals, which are both produced by the Modern Language Association. These sources focus on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism and dramatic arts, but also include other subjects.What's included? MLA Bibliography provides citations for journal articles, books, essay collections, working papers, dissertations, etc.

Open Access Directory: Languages and Literature Identify electronic journals in the fields of Languages and Literatures that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text, and accessible without cost.
Open Library of the Humanities The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) publishes open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). All of its academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review and the scholarship they publish showcases some of the most dynamic research taking place in the humanities disciplines today – from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.

Project MUSE Why search here? Project MUSE contains scholarly articles from major journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as ebooks.What's included? Full-text scholarly articles and ebooks on literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and more.

Cervantes Project Online editions of works by Cervantes, bibliographies, images of times and works of Cervantes.
HathiTrust HathiTrust provides access to millions of digitized materials from around the world.
LibriVox LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to on their computers, iPods or other mobile device, or to burn onto a CD. Titles on LibriVox are in the public domain and include a wide array of classic titles across disciplines.
Open Library Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. It makes over 1,000,000 free ebook versions of classic literature available at your fingertips.
Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebook versions of titles in the public domain to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

One of the best ways to discover the perfect source for your topic is to browse the library stacks by call number range. Each call number range represents a particular subject and all of the books on a particular topic will be located in the same general area on the shelves. So if you want a book on the Spanish language, go to the call number range beginning with PC4001 to see what we have!

History:

LC Call Number	Subject
DP 1-682	Spain and Portugal
F 1201-3799	Latin America. Spanish America
F 1401-1419	Latin America (General)
F 1421-1440	Central America
F 1461-1477	Guatemala
F 1481-1497	El Salvador
F 1521-1537	Nicaragua
F 1751-1854.9	Cuba
F 2201-3799	South America
F 3051-3285	Chile
F 3401-3619	Peru

Literature:

LC Call Number	Subject
PC 4001-4977	Spanish Language
PQ 6001-8929	Spanish Literature
PQ 7081-8560	Spanish America

WordReference
Includes free versions of Oxford Spanish-English dictionaries.

Business Spanish Dictionary
Call Number: E-Book
The vocabulary in this dictionary covers all aspects of everyday business usage, with over 50,000 entries in the two languages.
Collins Spanish Dictionary
Call Number: E-Book
Collins Spanish Dictionary is an up-to-date, easy-reference dictionary ideal for learners of Spanish of all ages.
Real Academia Española
Search the Diccionario de la lengua española, Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and more at the website of the primary organization responsible for the lexicography of the Spanish language.
Spanish Law Dictionary (Diccionario de términos jurídicos)
Call Number: E-Book
This guide to English-Spanish legal terms and definitions contains over 50,000 entries.