Spanish Research Guide
Find Journal Articles
Using Periodical Databases
Ryerson Library Periodicals
Collection
Periodicals generally provide information that is in-depth and focused,
usually from a contemporary point of view. Periodicals may be academic/scholarly,
popular or trade publications.
Print Periodicals
(journals, magazines)are located on the 5th floor, and are listed
by title in the Library
Catalogue.
The Library provides electronic access to the full-text of a large
number of journals. These electronic journals, as well as our print
journals, are listed in Journals by Title A-Z.
To Find Articles On Specific Topics Within Journals, You
Should Use Periodical Databases.
Web Access to Databases
:
The Ryerson Library has a large array of databases (which may be indexes,
abstracts or full-text) on a wide range of subjects, accessed through
the Library Homepage. (www.library.ryerson.ca).
Connecting from on-campus: Click on Articles
and Indexes, then click on Find
articles by Subject . Click on Arts & Humanities
or Multi-Disciplinary.
Click on the appropriate database to connect or for a description
of the database.
The following are some of the remote databases useful for research
in Spanish:
MLA
Bibliography
The MLA Bibliography, produced by the Modern Languages
Association of America, is the fundamental research tool for the
humanities. The database is an index of international scholarly
materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore.
The citations are from over 4,000 journals and series, monographs,
working papers and conference proceedings.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides online international subscription
access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the fields
of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing
arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies,
mathematics and many others.
Web of Science
(Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
Web of Science covers over 8,000 international journals
in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Through
ISI Links, the Web of Science also offers navigation to electronic
full-text journal articles, genetic information, and chemical and
patent databases. Included are these citation databases: Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1998-present; Social Sciences
Citation Index (SSCI)--1998-present; Arts and Humanities Citation
Index (AHCI)--1998-present.
Academic
Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides full text for 1,360
academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education
and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this
database offers indexing and abstracts for 2,920 journals. Nearly
1,770 journals are peer reviewed.
For effective searching
of the above electronic databases Boolean
search strategy should be used.
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