Guides: Hispanic Literary Studies: Find Articles

Core Databases

Literature Online
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Former title: LION fulltext
This database offers the full text of more than 350,000 original literary works of poetry, drama and prose from the eighth century to the present day. Articles from over 430 scholarly journals are also included. Coverage is extended by the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), one of the most important bibliographic sources for English studies. This database also includes reference works, including encyclopedias, companions, dictionaries, biographies, study guides, and topic overviews.
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MLA International Bibliography
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Scholarly publications from around the world and across a broad range of topics, including literature from any country and in any language, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), folklore, linguistics, college-level teaching of language/literature/rhetoric and composition, and history of printing and publishing.

Redalyc: Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal
Database and a digital library of Open Access journals, supported by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science)
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Access to scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities published in open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.

(1997-present)

Project Muse
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Complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from 120 publishers, and more than 28,000 books from the 110 publishers in the University Press Content Consortium
PRISMA Database with Hapi Index
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Provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin.
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FRANCIS (Humanities and Social Sciences)
Multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences. Abstracts and index terms in English and French
Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro
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Contains the full text of the earliest available editions of the most important plays of the sixteenth and seventeenth century in Spain. More than 800 plays by 16 dramatists are included with associated texts, stage directions, and frontmatter.

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