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Getting Started with Research for SPAN308
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Special Topic: Primary Sources
Recommended Research Databases
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Coverage on a wide range of topics. Includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities.
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)The MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present.
- Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
Historical Abstracts is the definitive index of literature covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from the 15th century to the present. Indexing thousands of journals in over 40 languages, it is an invaluable bibliographic database for history students. Topics include military history, women’s history, history of education, and much more.
- Humanities Source (EBSCO)
Humanities Source is a valuable full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.
- JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of full-text articles from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals from nearly every discipline taught at Calvin. Coverage for each journal begins with the first volume, with coverage ending for most titles three and five years ago. A growing number of journals now have coverage up to the present.
- Project Muse
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Available to Calvin Alumni.
Recommended Resources for Primary Sources
- Biblioteca Nacional de EspañaThis is the National Spanish Library's website. It includes the information about the library and its contents.
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de CervantesThis link contains access to thousands of works including literature, newspaper collections, video library, etc. This website has the aim of providing the best possible service to the wider community of Spanish speakers all over the world.
- DPLA (Digital Public Library of America)A one-stop portal to a wide range of open access materials from many libraries
- EuropeanaAccess to millions of cultural heritage items from institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more.
- Ibero-American Electronic Text SeriesA project devoted to Latin American and Iberian works in the humanities from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
- Internet Medieval SourcebookThe Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use. Contains a large number of primary source texts from medieval Iberia including Muslim and Jewish viewpoints.
- Libro (Library of Iberian Resources Online)The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) works to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula. The collection focuses upon peninsular history from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries. It includes a number of basic texts and sources in translation as well as a number of university press monographs on the topic.
- Online Medieval Sources BibliographyProvides detailed information about modern editions - both in print and online - of medieval primary sources.
- Portal de Archivos Españoles (PARES)The Spanish Archives Portal (PARES) is the main platform used to disseminate Spain's Historical Document Heritage, created and managed by the State Archives Department of the Ministry of Culture.
- Proyecto Estudios IndianosThe Proyecto Estudios Indianos is an interdisciplinary research group on the American viceroyalties with a global perspective.
- Virtual Library of Bibliographic Heritage (BVPB)The Virtual Library of Bibliographic Heritage (BVPB) is a digital library offering the public access to a valuable and growing collection of digitized facsimiles of manuscripts, printed books, historical photographs, cartographic material, musical scores, and other material that is housed in memory institutions (archives, libraries and museums) and forms part of Spain’s bibliographic heritage.
