Language and Literature

Local Resources

The following represent some of the most important electronic resources related to Spanish language and literature, direct by or indirect by. Some are only available to UF affiliated users. They have not been separated by format and include full-text databases, indexes abstracts or dictionaries. It is intended to group them separately in a later revision of this home page.

1.  The following three databases covering Spanish language and literature are available through FirstSearch:

MLA International Bibliography on FirstSearch

Available online through FirstSearch, the largest annual index on Spanish language, linguistics and literature, for Old Spanish to the present. Besides all modern literatures and all languages, the MLA also indexes folklore, film studies and literary theory. Free text searching or using combinations or established descriptors allow for broad or narrow information retrieval.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index on FirstSearch

Indexes about 1000 periodicals in a variety of fields, including literature. It should be used for specific purposes not as a general index, like MLA. Contents are indexed in four ways, allowing user to identify "scholarship relevant to a topic by locating studies that cite pertinent book or articles."

Dissertation Abstracts International on FirstSearch

Abstracts most American and Canadian dissertations and some British ones. Online version allows keyword searches of titles and of abstracts since 1980. Keyword of abstracts is very useful because of the sometimes imprecise subject classification.

2. Francis on Eureka, produced at the CNRS and available through the Eureka gateway, combines 19 indexes in the humanities and social sciences in one large database covering ca. 6000 journals. It can be used as a supplement to MLA for Spanish literature and language.

3.  Historical Abstract: http://serials.abc-clio.com/                                                              Indexes and abstracts the historical literature from 1450 to the present. Important for retrieving articles or writers and literature form journals not usually indexed by MLA. Primarily useful for advanced research

4.  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. Available online to UF affiliated users only: http://webspirs.silverplatter.com/cgi-bin/customers/c63790/c63790.cgi                                                  Especially useful for Spanish applied linguistics and language acquisition, besides general linguistics.

5.  ADMYTE: Archivo de manuscritos y textos españoles, 2 CD-ROM's, 1992 -. Located in Library West Reference Reserve. Contains 61 facsimiles and transcriptions of texts printed in Spain between 1481 and ca. 1530. Also three bibliographical databases (Bib. española de textos antiguos, Bib. de textos portugueses and Bib. de textos catalans antics), a dictionary of the old Spanish language and a software for text and image retrieval.

6.  Teatro del Siglo de Oro, on CD-ROM.

Full text of ca. 900 plays of the Golden Age, searchable by keyword or browsable.  Comprehensive corpus.  Located in Reference Reserve.