LibGuides: FLAS 304: Advanced Oral Production & Composition: Getting Started

Reference Material

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Business, Biological Sciences Online access to variety of reference books from the Gale publishing family. Can search an individual title or all titles at once.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Subject: Archaeology, Art, Architecture, History, Language, Linguistics, Health,
Music, Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Social Science. Full-text subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource. Note: accommodates only 1 user at any given time.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Subject: Music. Full-text of Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011), and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006). Note: accommodates only 1 user at any given time.

Enciclopedia hispánica
Call Number: AE61. E56 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Located in the Reference Collection on the first floor
Enciclopedia de la cultura española by Florentino Pérez-Embid
Call Number: DP12 .E5 1962 t.1
Located in the Reference Collection on the first floor
Historia de cultura hispanoamericana by Agnes Marie Brady
Call Number: F1408.3.B7
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America
Call Number: F 1218.6 .O95 2001 (ref)
More than three hundred historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians of religion, art historians, epigraphers, gender theorists, sociologists, filmmakers and others have written the 617 entries for the encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia of Civilizations & Societies: The Ancient and Modern Worlds
Online

Researching historical and cultural contexts in Spanish-speaking countries

Find here background sources, documentaries, books & scholarly articles

Street, Grenada Hendrik Glintenkamp, Smithsonian

Best Bests for Journal Articles

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Subjects: History, Literature, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics. Art.
Multidisciplinary index to peer-reviewed journal and magazine articles; some full-text; constructs bibliography in five different citation styles.
Humanities International Index This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Art & Design, Music, Theatre Arts, Languages, Literature & Mass Communication Indexing (some full-text) of journal articles, books, reference works, poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations in the humanities from 1925 to present; constructs bibliography in five different citation styles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Art & Design, Business, Music, Theatre Arts Full-text peer-reviewed journal articles in the humanities and sciences from 1831-"moving wall" (generally 3 to 5 years). Note: most recent 3-5 years are not included. Articles which are not available in our subscription may be requested via InterLibrary Loan.
JSTOR has provided complimentary access during Covid to JSTOR Archives & Primary Source Collections until June 30, 2021.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Subject: Art, Language, Literature, Communication, Music Full-text peer-reviewed journal articles in literature and criticism, visual and performing arts, history, political science, cultural studies, and related disciplines from 1990-current.

Find Books & Ebooks at the Library

Films on Demand Streaming Video Collection

From Films for the Humanities and Sciences, the Films on Demand streaming video collection includes titles covering historical context and social and cultural movements.

Google and Google Scholar

Searching Google and Google Scholar in Spanish is a good way to return search results in the language. Another option is to limit a search by a country domain. For example, the country code for Mexico is mx. Include the word site and a colon (:) and then the country code. (Other country codes can be found here.) The Google search would look like this

Also, make sure to connect your personal device to the CMU Tomlinson Library. To do so, go to
1. Google Scholar
2. Click on the three lines in the upper left hand corner
3. Click Settings
4. Click Library Links
5. Type in Colorado Mesa University Library -- at some point this will pop up
6. Click the box and save