Spanish Reader Resources

This selection of resources for Spanish Readers is designed to help you navigate through the wealth of online information in Fondren's collections. It is not a comprehensive list.

Databases

Online Databases

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.

Clase and Periodica (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. The combined database indexes over 2,600 scholarly journals in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. (1975-)

Consumer Health Complete (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

Includes medical information for the lay person from a variety of sources, including medical reference books, journals, pamphlets and alternative health sources. (A Spanish language interface, Salud en Espanol), provides access to health information in Spanish.)

Economia y Negocios (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

Economia y Negocios is produced in Peru by ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish-speaking world. This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 60,000 bibliographic records. Coverage dates back to the early 1980s and includes over 200 periodicals published in Latin America and Spain.

Fuente Academica (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.

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)

MedicLatina (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Online Text Collections

Latin American Women Writers: 17th century-

With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, and 300 plays, Latin American Women Writers accomplishes the task of bringing together the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection.

Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro: 1500 - 1700

Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro full text database contains the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain, published here in full. Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro contains more than 800 plays written by 16 dramatists including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Agustín Moreto etc.

Reference Works

Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish)

Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English)

Spanish, Dictionary of