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1 Reference Tools
- 1.1 Library of Congress Call Letters
2 Indexes and Databases
3 Web Sites
4 Research Guides
5 Associations and Societies

Contact me for questions about research:

Jim Gravois

Foreign Languages Librarian

RBD Library 2nd floor

Library Office 334-844-1663

RBD Reference Desk Hours - Fall 2007

Mondays 9-11 AM

Tuesdays 1-3 PM

Wednesdays 3-5 PM

Fridays 4-9 PM

[edit] Reference Tools

Gran Enciclopedia Rialp : GER

AE61 .G7 1981 (2nd floor)

General Spanish language encyclopedia

Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopedique Larousse

AE 25 .G63 1982 (2nd floor)

General French language encyclopedia

Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti ...

AE 35 .E5 (2nd floor)

General Italian language encyclopedia

Meyers grosses Taschenlexikon

AE 27 .M64 1983 (2nd floor)

General German language encyclopedia

MLA Directory of Periodicals

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/MLAP

contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. Over 7,100 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.

Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise

CT 143 .D5 (2nd floor)

Multi-volume biographical dictionary of important French personnages

[edit] Library of Congress Call Letters

PC 1-5498 Romance Languages (3rd floor)

PC 1001-1977 Italian Language

PC 2001-3761 French Language

PC 4001-4977 Spanish Language

PC 5001-5498 Portuguese Language

PF 3001-5999 German Language (3rd floor)

PG 2001-3987 Russian Language and Literature(3rd floor)

PJ 4501-5192 Hebrew Language and Literature(3rd floor)

PJ 6001-8517 Arabic Language and Literature(3rd floor)

PL 1-3207 East Asian Languages and Literature(3rd floor)

PL 501-889 Japanese Language and Literature

PL 1001-3207 Chinese Language and Literature

PQ 1-9999 Romance Literatures(3rd floor)

PQ 1-3999 French Literature

PQ 4001-5999 Italian Literature

PQ 6001-8929 Spanish Literature

PQ 9000-9999 Portuguese Literature

PT 1-4897 German Literature(3rd floor)

[edit] Indexes and Databases

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MLA Bibliography

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/MLAB

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

Handbook of Latin American Studies

http://memory.loc.gov/hlas/

A bibliography listing books and articles relating to Latin America in the social sciences and humanities.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

http://www.webofscience.com/

An index to journal articles that offers citation references for each article as well as author affiliation. Includes book reviews.

Ethnic News Watch

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/ETHNICW

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

http://hapi.gseis.ucla.edu/

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

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/ARTFL/

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.

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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/ASP

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.

Academic OneFile (INFOTRAC)

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/searchbank

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

http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/

An index to books and other works catalogued by OCLC member libraries. Useful for identifying sources not held by AU Libraries.

[edit] Periodicals and Newspapers

French Periodicals (available in the library)

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/humweb/frenchp.htm

German Periodicals (available in the library)

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/humweb/germanp.htm

Spanish Periodicals (available in the library)

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/humweb/spanishp.htm

Selected Newspapers on the Web accessed by country of publication

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

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Western European Specialists Section: A comprehensive, general directory of web resources for Western European languages and literatures.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/index.html

LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center: A directory with links to many areas of Latin American studies.

http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/

REESWEB: Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources.

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/

UVa E-Text Center.: Short lists of world masterpieces in the original languages, some in English translations.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Perseus Digital Library: Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Contains original Greek and Latin classics and much more. A digital gift from Tufts University.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/