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• Learning outcomes
• Gathering background information
• Locating books
• Locating articles
• Web resources
• Citing sources

At the end of this session you will:

• know where to find information on Argentine history and literature to help you narrow or define your research topic
• be able search the library catalog effectively by author and/or subject
• learn how access books not in the library collection through the Multi-Library search
• know which online periodical indexes are best for research on Argentine history, culture, and literature
• be able to use the FIND IT service to locate full text articles
• have a list of subject directories and sites to guide your web research
• know that you have access to MLA style guides 24/7
  

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These reference sources provide overviews that can help you explore and refine your topic. They may also suggest other useful materials for your research.

General sources
Encyclopedia Britannica (REF AE5. E391)
Notable Latin American Women (REF CT3290 .N68 2001)
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (REF F1406. E53 1996)
Latin America Profiled (REF F1408 .L37 2000)
Encyclopedia of World Geography (REF G133 .E48 2002)
Atlas of World History (REF ATL G1030 .O85 1999)
Times Atlas of World History (REF ATL G1030 .T54 1993)
Europa Year Book (REF JN1 .E85)

CIA World Fact Book

Biographies Plus contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H. W. Wilson databases. Wilson Biographies Plus contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books

Literature sources
Encyclopedia of Latin Amreican Literature (REF PQ7081 .A1 E56 1997)
Handbook of Latin American Literature (REF PQ7081 .A1 H36 1987)
Latin American Literature & its Times (REF PQ7081 .M625 1999)

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (authors now living or died after Jan. 1, 2000.
Gale Literature Criticism Online
Magill's On Literature Plus

Books in this library : Use the Library Catalog to find books owned by this library. You can search either by subject heading or keywords. Subject headings related to Argentine history and literature include:

Argentina
Argentina - Fiction
Argentina - History
Argentina - Social conditions
Argentine literature
Argentine poetry

Step 1: Use an index to find citations to journal articles on your topic. The periodical indexes listed below will help you find citations to journal articles and other publications. You may search for articles by subject headings, keywords, or by author. Note that most indexes do NOT include the full-text of articles. Therefore, you'll need to go on to step 2, below, once you have selected some citations.

Start with these indexes:

Ebsco's Academic Search Premier covers a wide range of academic areas, including Social Science and related fields. It features the full-text for over 1,000 journals. Restrict your search to scholarly journals by selecting the Advanced Search option and limiting your search to Peer-reviewed journals.

Academic Universe (Lexis Nexis) Full text coverage of 6000 English language sources, including newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, broadcast transcripts (AP, New York Times, CNN), international news sources, business directories, SEC documents, corporate profiles, statutes, federal and state case law, law reviews and state legal materials. To find Argentine newspapers, click on the Sources tab and select what resources to search from.

Historical Abstracts is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 excluding the United States and Canada. Over 2000 journals are covered.

Humanities Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.

MLA (Modern Language Association) Produced by the Modern Language Association, this index covers journals, books and dissertations that contain critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.

If you are looking for newspaper articles on Argentine historical events, the UWP Library has subscriptions to many newspapers, several going back to the mid-nineteenth century. A list of the newspapers is available on the Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers Articles section of the library homepage.

Use a citation index to extend your search:

Social Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.Cited Reference Searching allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography).

Off-campus access: Databases accessed through the Library's Web site are licensed by the Library for the use of the University's students, faculty, and staff, and can be accessed from off-campus. If you are asked to login, you must enter your UW-Parkside email login and password. Your email account must already have been activated in one of the campus computer labs.

Step 2: Now that you have a citation to an article, does the Library own the journal? First, check the Library Catalog, to see if the Library subscribes to the journal and has the issue you need. Search the catalog by Journal Title. Next, check the UWP Periodical List to see if they are available full-text, often through databases such as Ebsco's Academic Search or if you have a complete citation, try the Citation Linker.

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Although you can search the World Wide Web by keyword using a search engine, browsing the Web sites below can help you find more authoritative information in the field of Latin American studies.

Garden of Forking Paths has articles, interviews, criticism and partial works of Jorge Luis Borges.

History of Argentina, from Historyworld.net, has an overview of Argentine history going back to the 18th century.

Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Voice of the Shuttle) has links to general site on Latin American literature, Argentine literature and to sites dedicated to individual authors.

Library of Congress - HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies) is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.

Argentine newspapers online
La Nacion
Pagina 12

Other Argentine newspapers online via Newslink

Web Evaluation Guide
(New Mexico University http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.htm

When preparing a project in business, follow the recommendation of your instructor when you cite the sources you have used. Instructors may recommend the format styles described in these publications and Web sites.

The MLA handbook for writers of research papers (Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 2003) provides the recommendations of the Modern Language Association for formatting papers and references.How to Cite References Using MLA Style This online guide, prepared by this library, is also available in paper format in the guide rack near the Reference Desk.

Your Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age text has an accompanying website that provides some examples of how cite references using the MLA Hanbook 6th ed. format.

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