Research Guides: SPAN 4538 Language Variation in Spanish: Getting Started

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MLA Resources

MLA Handbook The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book--or perhaps listened to in an audio version. On the Web, modes of publication are regularly invented, combined, and modified. Previous editions of the MLA Handbookprovided separate instructions for each format, and additional instructions were required for new formats. In this groundbreaking new edition of its best-selling handbook, the MLA recommends instead one universal set of guidelines, which writers can apply to any type of source. Shorter and redesigned for easy use, the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook guides writers through the principles behind evaluating sources for their research. It then shows them how to cite sources in their writing and create useful entries for the works-cited list. More than just a new edition, this is a new MLA style.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Widely adopted by universities, colleges, and secondary schools, the MLA Handbook is the guide millions of writers have relied on for over half a century. The seventh edition, taken out of print by the MLA in spring 2016 upon publication of the eighth edition, provides the MLA's previous recommendations on documentation style for use in student writing. Please note that copies of the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook include a code for accessing an accompanying Web site. The Web site is no longer available.

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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The MLA International Bibliography provides a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. It covers the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Latin American coverage includes: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Spain.
Communication & Mass Media Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts for journals related to communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Includes a Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e., searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as "core").
Latin American Newsstand This link opens in a new window
Full-text of over 40 Latin-American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin-American regional topics.
Education Full Text (Wilson) This link opens in a new window Indexes 400 periodicals, yearbooks, and monographs in audiovisual education, classroom computers, comparative education, competency-based education, educational technology, government funding, language and linguistics, literacy standards, multi-cultural/ethnic education, psychology, religious education, science and mathematics, social sciences, special education, student counseling, teacher education, teacher/parent relations, and vocational education.
ERIC (U.S. Dept of Education version) This link opens in a new window The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials. In 1993, ERIC began indexing education-related books, including the output of major publishers. The public access (.gov) interface is very easy to use and includes a thesaurus browse option that quickly identifies ERIC subjects however, full-text articles available online via the ERIC OSearch Interface or the ERIC EBSCOhost Interface may not be accessible from off-campus via this interface.
JSTOR [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index Online (HAPI) HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present. Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online, including: a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003, access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key American Anthropological Association (AAA) publications including American Anthropologist, and current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications.
Social Sciences Abstracts This link opens in a new window Indexes approximately 350 periodicals in anthropology, area studies, community, health and medical care, economics, ethnic studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law and criminology, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy science and corrections, political science, psychology and psychiatry social work and public welfare, sociology, and urban studies.

Dialnet

SciELO Brazil - Scientific Electronic Library Online This link opens in a new window A collection of Brazilian academic journals in natural and social sciences, with articles in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

Redalyc
Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y el Caribe,España y Portugal

Cómo preparar una bibliografía anotada
Biblioteca de la Universidad Metropolitana
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Guía preparada por Sylvia Zavala Trías, MLS
Como Preparar una Bibliografia Anotada
Informacion sobre qué es una bibliografía anotada, anotaciones vs. resúmes, y el proceso
Annotated bibliographies.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Annotated bibliography
University of South Wales, Australia.
Writing an annotated bibliography
University of Toronto, Canada

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