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Library Specialist

Jim Gravois gravojm@auburn.edu
844-1663
2nd Floor Reference

Reference Desk hours for Fall 2007:

Mon. 9-11; Tues. 1-3; Wed. 3-5; Fri. 4-9.

Indexes and Databases

Subject

MLA Bibliography: A bibliography listing books as well as articles in journals and books in the modern languages and literatures.

Handbook of Latin American Studies: A bibliography listing books and articles relating to Latin America in the social sciences and humanities.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index: An index to journal articles that offers citation references for each article as well as author affiliation. Includes book reviews.

Ethnic News Watch: A full-text index to newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Available in either English or Spanish.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index

HAPI Online combines current information about Latin America with in-depth coverage spanning more than twenty-five years, from 1970 to the present. Now containing more than 210,000 citations, HAPI Online grows at the rate of about 8,000 records a year. Covers all subject areas. Includes book reviews.

The ARTFL Project

Nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions.

Klapp. Bibliographie der franzosischen literaturwissenschaft PQ 3 .B53 3rd floor

A comprehensive bibliography for French literary scholarship.

Eppelsheimer. Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft Z 2232 .B5 4th floor

A comprehensive bibliography for German literary scholarship.

General

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO: Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,176 journals in the collection.
Expanded Academic ASAP (INFOTRAC): Balanced coverage is available through 3,500 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 1,400 journals are peer reviewed, and more than 20 years of backfile coverage are included. 1980 – Present
WorldCat: An index to books and other works catalogued by OCLC member libraries. Useful for identifying sources not held by AU Libraries.

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Periodicals


French Periodicals
: A list of French periodicals in paper available in the library.
German Periodicals: A list of German periodicals in paper available in the library.
Spanish Periodicals: A list of Spanish periodicals in paper available in the library.
Selected Newspapers on the Web: Web newspapers accessed by country of publication

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Web Sites

Western European Specialists Section http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/index.html: A comprehensive, general directory of web resources for Western European languages and literatures.

LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/: A directory with links to many areas of Latin American studies.

REESWEB: Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources. http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/
UVa E-Text Center. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/: Short lists of world masterpieces in the original languages, some in English translations.

Perseus: Ancient Texts Perseus: A multi-media e-text site with Greek and English translations of the Loeb Classical library along with an encyclopedia, images and more.