My Recommendation
Literature Resouce Center with the MLA Bibliography
- a literature reference database
- full-text of reference articles and many full-text journals
- information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Collins English Spanish Dictionary
- a free online multlingual dictionary
- has over 160,000 words with more than 230, translations
Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en línea
- a spanish language encyclopedia
- only full-length online encyclopedia conceived and developed with
the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas as its focus.
Databases
Academic Search Elite
- extends back to 1980 with many full-text titles back to 1990
- academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities,
general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural
- full text for over 1,200 journals
- abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals
Clase/Periodica
- search Latin American periodicals (primarily Spanish language periodicals)
- 1975- present, updated quarterly
- Uses english language or spanish language subject headings
- The MAJORITY of the journals indexed are in the spanish language
Essay & General Literature Index
- search for chapters of books
- 1985- present, updated monthly
- Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and
miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada
- More than 300 volumes are indexed annually
JSTOR
[select Language & Literature and Classical Studies journals]
- a database of full text scholarly journals
- covers over 300 scholarly periodicals
- Contains searchable full text of all the contents back to their beginning
WorldCat
- locate books in other libraries