¿Cómo hallar recursos para Español 450?

por Denis Lacroix Bibliotecario de español y francés http://www.library.ualberta.ca/instruction/hss/index.cfm

Session Outline

 Finding Subject Guides, Reference resources, and Bibliographies  Finding Books by author, subject, title, numbers  Boolean, Truncation, and Advanced Searching  Finding online and print Articles in Periodicals  Databases and ILL  Print Indexes / Book Reviews

The Research Question

HLAS ¿Violence in Crónica de una muerte anunciada?

MLA HAPI

Finding Subject Guides

 Click on the Subjects tab on the Library home page  Click on Humanities and Social Sciences   Under Languages & Literatures Click on Romance Languages

Or

  Under Area Studies Click on Latin American Studies  In the yellow strip on the right-hand side, you will find QuickStart Guides

Finding Reference Resources



Subject Headings

 Violence – Latin America  Social conflict – Latin America  Spanish American Literature – Dictionaries  Literature Resource Center e.g. [Advanced Search] [Author] Garcia Marquez, Gabriel 

Bibliographies

 e.g. [Words Anywhere]

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel and bibliography

[Words Anywhere]

Colombia and bibliography

Finding Books

 By author:  [Browse] or [Keyword] García Marquez, Gabriel  By title 

Vivir para contarla

 Request or place a hold on a book  About an author as subject  [Browse] or [Keyword] Rulfo, Juan  Rulfo, Juan and criticism  Rulfo, Juan and Pedro Páramo

Advanced Searching

 Finding books about a topic  Think of variant or similar terms and c lick Advanced Search  Use Boolean operators, e.g. and, or  [Subject]

(latin american literature) or (Spanish american literature) or (Garcia Marquez, Gabriel)

 [Words Anywhere] violence or power or conflict or poder  Use truncation symbols: $ ?

 [Subject]

(latin america$) or (Spanish america$)

 [Words anywhere]

violenc$ or power$ or conflict$ or poder$ or crim$

 [Words anywhere]

wom?n

Electronic and Print Indexes

 Use electronic databases or print indexes to find periodical articles.

 Use databases to find articles published since 1980 and print indexes for older material.

 Databases are all different:  some contain full-text articles  some list only citations and abstracts  others have a mixture of both

Electronic Databases



Latin American Resources

: HAPI

*

, HLAS.



General Humanities

: MLA, Humanities Abstracts

*

, Web of Science

*

, IBZ

*

.



Sociological Resources

: Sociological Abstracts

*

, PAIS International.



Women’s Studies

: Women’s Studies International.

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World-wide or Rare Resources

(books & articles): Centre for Research Libraries (CRL), OCLC.



Theses

: DAI, Index to Theses.

* Limitable by Book Review

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

 Click on Search: (1 concept per field)  [Keyword] trag ; sex ; imperial ; conquest Add [Subject] cronica de una muerte anunciada  [Subject] cronica de una muerte anunciada   Save citations to bibliography and send or print Search for periodical or book in Library catalogue  Search for

Revista Canadiense de Estudios

Hispánicos, 12:3 (Spring 1988), 397-413.

 In Library Catalogue Choose

Browse Title

in “Other Search Options”  Click Full text may be available for online access and

Periodical

Handbook of Latin American Studies

 Go to Basic Search  [Subject] cronica de una muerte anunciada  [Full Citation] garcia marquez and violen*  Click on “Include word variants”  Click on citation number to see full citation.

 Some titles are books (see #2)  Others are journal articles (see #11)  Search for

Hisp. J., 10:1, Fall 1988, p. 53-65

 Search for “Journals”

Databases: MLA International Bibliography

 Search for [Subject] (

cronica de una muerte anunciada

) and [Words Anywhere] violen* or imperial* or conquest* or conflict* or trag* or crim*  Combine searches by checking terms and clicking on

Combine checked

.

 Click on

Display

 and

Mark

records.

 Search for periodical or book titles in Library Catalogue, (# 10 & #11).

or click on

Check for holdings

.

Print Indexes

 

Index to Latin American Periodical Literature

What: (1929-1970) Where: Rutherford North Floor 1 Ref. F 1401 I38 folio

The Complete Caribbeana, 1900-1975 : a bibliographic guide to the scholarly literature

Where: Rutherford North Floor 1 Ref. F 1608 Z9 C734 1977 

Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA)

What: (1921 to 1962) Where: Rutherford N flr1 Indexes PB 1 M58

Print Indexes – the Sequel



Book Review Index

Where: Rutherford North Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 B73 What: (Since 1965-) Provides author and title indexes, but no excerpts of the reviews.



Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974

Where: Rutherford North Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 C7 1982 

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974

Where: Ruth. North Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 C72 1979

Latin American Studies Websites



Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/  e.g. "cronica de una muerte anunciada"  Latin America: Subject Resources http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rlwls/andes.html

 Internet Resources for Latin America http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/fah/sub pathpages/Span.Port/latinamer.htm

Inter-Library Loans (ILL)

 If the document that you are looking for is not in our Library Catalogue,  fill out an ILL electronic form: http://www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/index.cfm

 indicate, if possible, where your document is located in the world.

 using OCLC WorldCat locate your document in libraries world-wide by clicking on “

Libraries Worldwide

.”  Check the status of your ILL after 2 weeks: http://www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/status/inde x.cfm

Reference Services

 Ask any question.

 Visit us in person (1 st floor Rutherford North)  Try e-mail or chat reference from any computer, anywhere!

 Telephone us.

¡Buena suerte en su búsqueda!