Subject Guide: Spanish

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Humanities Liaison Librarian - Joshua Finnell

Databases

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

  • Chicano Database
    This database indexes journal articles about Mexican-Americans and also covers the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
  • Clase and Periodica
    Clase and Periodica indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences, humanities, science and technology.
  • Economia y Negocios
    This database provides citations in Spanish for articles on business and economics from over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.
  • Foreign Language Video Database:
    A growing collection of foreign language video clips in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, daily life, and more. Each video is accompanied by a description of its contents, the country of the speaker, and additional grammar and vocabulary notes. QuickTime format.
  • Fuente Academica
    This database provides scholarly journal articles in Spanish covering many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies
  • Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
  • Humanities International Complete
  • Humanities Index, 1974-1996  AI 3 .H8 (Annex Floor 1A)
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • MLA Bibliography, 1921-1992  Z 7006 .M64 (Annex Floor 1A)

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful: