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General Research and Style Guides

• How to use the MLA style
• Advice on Academic Writing (Univ. of Toronto)
• Academic Writing: Annotated Bibliography (Univ. of Wisconsin)
• ONLINE! Citation Styles (Bedford/St. Martins)

Getting Started

• Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003. London ; New York : Routledge.  PQ7081.A1 E558 2004
• Encyclopedia of Latin American literature. London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn. PQ7081.A1 E56 1997
• Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos. Buenos Aires : Emecé : Ada Korn Editora.  PQ7081.3 . A35 2001
• An A to Z of modern Latin American literature in English translation. London : Institute of Latin American Studies. PQ7081.W55 1989
• Latin American literature in the 20th century : a guide. New York : Ungar. PQ7081.L36 1986
• Handbook of Latin American literature. New York : Garland Pub.  PQ7081.A1H36 1992
• Guide To Reference Works For The Study Of The Spanish Language And Literature And Spanish American Literature. New York : Modern Language Association of America.  Z2695.A2 W66 1997
• Hispanic writers : a selection of sketches from Contemporary authors. Detroit : Gale Research.  PQ7081.3.H58 1991
• The Oxford companion to Spanish literature. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1978. PQ6006.W37
• The companion to Latin American studies. New York : Oxford University Press. F1408.3 .C65 2003
• The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press.  PN81 .J55 2005
• Contemporary Authors. Detroit, Gale Research Co.  Z1224.C6  also available via  LRC
• Contemporary literary criticism. Published Detroit, Gale Research Co. PN771.C62 also available via  LRC
• Dictionary Of Literary Biography. Detroit, Gale Research Co. PN141.D5 also available via  LRC
• v. 82 Chicano Writers, First Series. & v. 113 Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers.

Journal Indexes and Databases

• Clase (ClasePeriodica)
• CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. 1978-
• Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
• Bibliography on Latin America consisting of citations of works selected by scholars. Volumes alternate between Humanities and Social Sciences. Searchable in English and Spanish. Includes abstracts for most resources.  1935-
• HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
• A searchable index of citations to articles and documents covering Central and South America, Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean, U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. 1970-
• Essay and General Literature Index
• Searchable database of citations to essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other miscellaneous works. Subjects are focused in the humanities and social sciences. 1985-
• MLA Bibliography Database from CSA
• This searchable database contains citations for articles, books, and book chapters in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Compiled by the Modern Language Association. 1963-   MLA Directory of Periodicals
• Expanded Academic Index ASAP from Infotrac/Gale
• EA ASAP from Infotrac, formerly known as the Magazine and Journal Articles database or MAGS, contains citations for articles in popular magazines and scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences. Legal, business, and health journals are also included. Many records have abstracts and full text. 1980-   Quick Guide
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index via Web of Science
• This Web of Knowledge database contains citations to 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Search by subject, author, and journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article specified by the searcher.  1975-
•  DialNet
• Open-access database hosted by the Universidad de la Rioja, Logrono, Spain.  Over 4,000 mostly Spanish journals and magazines, but also includes books and dissertations.  Primarily

The  icon in most online databases will lead you to the text of journal articles. UC-eLinks will provide links to online text when available, the call numbers for print copies of journals, and forms for requesting items through interlibrary loan if UCSC doesn't own the journal. See the UC-eLinks Guide (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/elinks.html) for more information.

Library Catalogs

• CRUZCAT (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu) UCSC's Online Library Catalog. It includes books, periodicals, maps, videos, government publications, CDs, music scores, and more materials located in both McHenry and the Science and Engineering Library. CRUZCAT does not include the text of journal articles.
• MELVYL  (http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/) The UC Union Catalog contains the holdings all ten UC Libraries. It also has links to request items UCSC does not own through interlibrary loan.

Full Text Resources

• Literature Resource Center (LRC) from Gale
• Provides full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from classical antiquity to the present. Subjects include novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
• LION - Literature Online
• Offers a searchable library of poetry, prose, drama, literary reference texts, and author biographies. Contains the full-text of over 260,000 works.
• JSTOR Language&Literature  &  Latin American Studies
• A searchable database containing the full-text of back issues of more than 160 academic journals. Coverage: Archival. Latest three years are not available.
• Project Muse
• This searchable database contains online access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Coverage varies.
• Periodical Archives Online (PAO)
• This searchable database contains citations for articles in over 350 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Full text is available for all articles. Formerly titled PCI Full Text. Covers: 1770 - 1995.
• Latin-American women writers [electronic resource] : class, race, and gender / Myriam Yvonne Jehenson. Published Albany : State University of New York Press, c1995   PQ7082.N7 J4 1995
• Latino Literature
• Searchable and browsable full text database of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Also includes audio files of selected poems and plays. From Alexander Street Press
•  Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project
• This Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College site offers an electronic edition of Sor Juana's works, a chronology of her life, listing of scholars, criticism and bibliography.
•  Proyecto Cervantes/Cervantes Project
• This Texas A & M University site provides links to the Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO), 1994-1998; the Cervanted Digital Library (CDL) for online searchable and browsable editions of works and translations; and the Cervantes Digital Archive of Images (CDAI).

Selected Internet Guides

• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
• A searchable directory of internet resources on the Caribbean, Central and South America and Mexico via numerous links arranged by subject.  The Humanitites>>Literature link leads to resources arranged by country (including individual author sites, association and literary genre sites) and international, regional resources, journals and magazines.
•  WessWeb - Iberian Studies
• ARL Western European Studies Section. The Iberian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Iberian Studies (for Spain, Portugal and Andorra).
• LA GUIA, Internet Resources for Latin America
• Links to a wide variety of guides, directories, subscription and public domain databases, government resources and digital libraries.
• Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
• Includes LAPTOC: Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents, a searchable database of tables of contents for over 800 Latin American humanities and social sciences journals.
•  UCSC Library: Latin American/Spanish Literature Journals

Managing Citations and Bibliographies

•  Importing Citations from UCSC Library Databases
• Citation import guide for users of Endnote and Zotero bibliographic management software.
•  Tools for Bibliographic Management
• NYU Libraries guide.
•  Zotero
• Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. Quick Start Guide and Screencast tutorials.