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Articles in Journals/Magazines

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications.

Arts & Humanities Search
Indexes many leading journals; online version of Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Clase/Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.

JSTOR
Full-text back runs of major academic journals. The Arts & Sciences I Collection, to which Millsaps subscribes, includes the complete back runs of 117 titles in 15 disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American Studies
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.  Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 books and articles for inclusion in the Handbook.

The Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. The foundation of the Literature Resource Center is built on the Gale Group's three hallmark author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online.

MLA Bibliography
Modern Language Association's International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations.

Project Muse
Index and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Dictionaries

Diccionario de la Real Academia Española
This dictionary is a monolingual, electronic Spanish dictionary and is a useful resource for studying the history of the Spanish language.

Oxford English Dictionary
The complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series.

Oxford Reference Online -- Bilingual Dictionaries
French, Spanish, German, Irish, Italian, Latin and Welsh Bilingual Dictionaries.

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Electronic Books/Online Books

Biblioteca virtual Miguel de Cervantes
The Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library is the world's biggest digital library of Spanish and Latin American texts. The primary aim of the project is the digitisation, cataloguing and placing online of 30,000 works in Spanish. Works and authors are accessible via browseable catalogues (in alphabetical order) and a search engine (by title; author; genre and period).

Primary Sources

Britannica's Original Sources
The site includes original source documents, critical selections and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Science, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language.