Hispanic and Brazilian Studies Resources

This selection highlights Fondren Library resources pertaining to Spain, Latin America (including Brazil), and Hispanic Americans in the USA. It is not a comprehensive list.

Indexes & Databases

online | print & CDROM

Online Indexes

Chicano Database (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text

CDB identifies, in one place, all types of material about Chicanos and provides uniform subject access to this constantly growing body of literature. In 1992 CDB expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07.

Contemporary Authors (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

Contemporary Authors helps researchers discover biographic details on approximately 100,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Current writers as well as the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century, and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States are featured.

Contemporary Literary Criticism (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

CLC presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959. Each entry contains the following: a biographical essay that discusses the author's life, works, and critical importance; critical essays or excerpts taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals; and, where available, interviews with featured authors. A complete bibliographical citation prefaces each critical essay and most essays are introduced by a brief annotation that establishes a context and purpose for the criticism. Entries also provide suggestions for further reading.

CountryWatch | includes Full Text

Contains detailed textual, data and graphic information for countries and regions. Topics include: country overviews, political history and conditions, economic status, investment overviews, social background, and environmental situation and issues.

Dictionary of Literary Biography (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) records the achievements of the world's most influential literary figures. Each entry includes personal data, the author's principal works, and sources for further study.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. (1935-)

Hispanic American Periodicals

The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) covers over 400 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities, or treating Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics. A guide to searching the Hispanic American Periodicals Index is available online. (1970- updated annually)

Historical Abstracts | includes Full Text

Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered.

JSTOR | includes Full Text | Source List

JSTOR provides online, fulltext access to over 300 core scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.)

Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

Indexes the contents of over 350 periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Individual articles can be located through a variety of browsing and searching combinations, including article author, title, country, journal title, and date.

Modern Language Association Bibliography (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text

This bibliography covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide between 1926 and the present. The MLA Bibliography is updated ten times per year. (1926-)

Print & CDROM Indexes

Bibliografía Española (CDROM)

Holdings:  lastest ed. only

Call Number:  Z2685 .B583  REFERENCE DESK

Catálogo Colectivo de Fondo Antiguo, Siglos XV-XIX, de la Asociación de Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamérica (CDROM)

Call Number:  Z2681 .C34  REFERENCE DESK

Contains bibliographic records for monographs published until 1900, contributed by 22 Ibero-American national libraries, including those of Spain and Portugal.

International Bibliography of Historical Sciences

Holdings:  1926-1991, 1993-1996

Call Number:  Z6205 .I5  REFERENCE

A bibliography of international journal articles classed by subject and including an author/person and a geographical index. The subject classification scheme is provided in German, Spanish, French, English, and Italian.

Libros en Venta en América Latina y España (CDROM)

Holdings:  latest ed. only

Call Number:  Z1601 .L59  REFERENCE DESK

Spanish books in print. Bibliographic information about 225,000 titles in print in the Spanish language from all countries on all subjects.

Spanish Bibliography: 15th century-1995 (CDROM)

Call Number:  Z2691 .B535  REFERENCE DESK

Provides access to more than one million Spanish language titles held by some of the world's greatest university libraries. Drawn from the holdings of participants in the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN), the file includes material from such major repositories as those of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. Includes books and serials of classical and modern authors from Spain and South America, as well as books from famous statesmen.

Text Collections

online | print & CDROM

Online Text Collections

Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project

A project of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) aimed at digitizing executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire to 1889. The series include: Provincial Presidential Reports (1830-1889), Presidential Messages (1889-1993), Ministerial Reports (1821-1960), and the Almanak Administrativo, Mercantile Industrial do Rio de Janeiro (1844-1889).

Digital National Security Archive

The database contains more than 35,000 of the most important, declassified U.S. federal documents that led to policy decisions. The Digital National Security Archive contains fifteen complete collections: Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, Intelligence Community, Iran Revolution, Iraqgate, Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Philippines, Presidential Directives from Truman to Clinton, South Africa, and Soviet Estimate.

Print & CDROM Text Collections

British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print. Series D: Latin America.

Call Number:  See Description  STACKS

Part I: 1845-1914: JX632 .B736; Part II: 1914-1939: JX632 .B766

Newspapers

Academic Universe

Contains fulltext of recent years of Spanish-language newspapers. Select "Guided News Search", then set "News Category" (Step One) to "Non-English Language News" and "News Source" (Step Two) to "Spanish Language News". To see which newspapers are included or the years of coverage, click on "Source List" *after* making the Step Two selection. To search a specific newspaper, enter title in Step Five or select from Source List. (Excludes some freelance articles.)

Fondren Library Holdings:
Microforms located in Government Publications (Fondren basement)
Current issues located in Current Periodicals Room

Estado de S. Paulo

Print Holdings:  current month

Call Number:  AN68 .E78

Microform Holdings:  1875-1956 on microfilm

Excélsior

Print Holdings:  current 3 months

Call Number:  AN80 .E9

Folha de S. Paulo

Print Holdings:  current month

Call Number:  AN68 .F65

Jornal do Brasil

Print Holdings:  current month

Call Number:  AN68 .J67

País

Print Holdings:  current month

Call Number:  AN80 .P3

Online Coverage for Rice:  4/1996-current via Academic Universe

Ultima Hora

Call Number:  AN68 .U45

Microform Holdings:  1962-1983 on microfilm

Microform Sets

Church Missionary Society Archive

Call Number:  BV 2500.C48A3  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title with general reel guide

Guide:  Guides for each section. Online information at http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/church_missionary_society_archive_general/editorial%20introduction%20by%20rosemary%20keen.aspx

Sec.1 East Asia, Sec.2 Missions to Women, Sec. 3 Central Records, Sec. IV Africa, Sec. V The Americas, Sec. VI Asia

Hispanic Culture Series: books before 1601

Call Number:  PQ 6171.A2H57  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series & individual titles

Guide:  Guide not available at this time

Spanish Drama of the Golden Age

Call Number:  PQ 6217.S75  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series & individual titles

Guide:  Comprehensive index. Online information and guide at http://www.galegroup.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=745&titleCode=PSM133&type=4&id=N890

Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Biographical Archive

Call Number:  CT1345 .A7-CT1345 .A73  microfiche

Library Catalog Access:  series titles only

Guide:  10 vol. printed index to both series

Women's Movement in Cuba, 1898-1958

Call Number:  HQ 1507.W65  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  The printed guide includes author and subject indexes, detailed reel information. Online information at http://www.galegroup.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=745&titleCode=SR542&type=4&id=D3248

Reference Works

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. 2nd ed. Simon Collier, Thomas E. Skidmore, Harold Blakemor. Cambridge: 1992.

Call Number:  F1406 .C36   REFERENCE

Dictionary of Hispanic Biography. Joseph C. Tardiff & L. Mpho Mabunda. Gale: 1996.

Call Number:  CT1343 .D53   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. López. Routledge: 2000.

Call Number:  F1406 .E515   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture. Eamonn Rodgers. Routledge: 1999.

Call Number:  DP233.5 .E63   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Barbara A. Tenenbaum. Scribner's Sons: 1996.

Call Number:  F1406 .E53   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of World Cultures. David Levinson. G.K. Hall: 1991-1996.

Call Number:  GN307 .E53   REFERENCE

v.1 North America; v.2 Oceania; v.3 South Asia; v.4 Europe (Central, Western, and Southeastern Europe); v.5 East and Southeast Asia; v.6 Russia and Eurasia, China; v.7 South America; v.8 Middle America and the Caribbean; v.9 Africa and the Middle East; v.10 Indexes

Guide to Reference Works for the Study of the Spanish Language and Literature and Spanish American Literature. 2nd ed. Hensley C. Woodbridge. Modern Language Association of America: 1997.

Call Number:  PC4071 .W66   REFERENCE

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States. Nicolás Kanellos, Claudio Esteva-Fabregat. Arte Público Press: 1993-1994.

Call Number:  E184.S75 H365   REFERENCE

Historic World Leaders. Anne Commire. Gale: 1994.

Call Number:  CT104 .H57   REFERENCE

v.1 Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific; v.2-3 Europe; v.4-5 North & South America

Latin American Literature and its Times. Joyce Moss, Lorraine Valestuk. Gale: 1999.

Call Number:  PQ7081 .L359   REFERENCE

(profiles of notable literary works and the historical events that influenced them)

Latin American Writers. Carlos A. Solé. Scribner: 1989, 2002.

Call Number:  PQ7081.A1 L37    REFERENCE

Other available formats:  Online through Gale Literary Databases

Who's Who in Latin America: government, politics, banking & industry. 4th ed. Bettina Corke. Norman Ross: 1997.

Call Number:  F1407 .W52   REFERENCE

Films at Fondren Library

The following are live WebCat searches which retrieve current lists of our films in the languages specified, most of which have English subtitles. (* DVDs with subtitle options in the language are also retrieved at the present due to a technical problem.) The Language Resource Center also collects foreign-language films. You can search their catalog on the Language Resource Center Website.

Spanish Films

Portuguese Films

You can also search our catalog for a specific film by title, director or main actors (via author search); or, on the power search page, you can limit a keyword search to films by selecting a format of "VM" (Visual Materials).

Checkout for films is as follows:

Videotape 1 films (documentaries) circulate to all Rice patrons for a week.

Videotape 2 films (feature films) circulate to Faculty for 3 days; Staff and Students can view the films inside the Library (we have recently upgraded our viewing equipment).