Finding books by subject
Finding books on a topic is easy with subject searching. Use the Catalog Quick Search and chose the Subject option. Subject searches use Library of Congress subject headings and thus are always in English. For related subject terms, scroll through the list of results.
Suggested Subject Headings:
country--history
country--history--sources
For instance
Argentina--history--sources
Tip--to find subject headings, do a keyword search in the Catalog Quick Search using terms relating to your topic. Find a result that fit your research and consult the subject headings
Finding more books
Book reviews
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource. H-Net Reviews bring a new dimension to the world of academic publishing. Our reviews are published online via discussion networks and the H-Net web site. This permits our reviews to reach scholars with a speed unmatched in any other medium. It also makes a new kind of interactivity possible, as reviewers, authors and readers engage in discussions of the reviews online. Through the power of e-mail and the web, H-Net has helped pioneer online scholarly reviewing.
Lexis-Nexis is an invaluable source for reviews of foreign-language books, particularly for recently published books. To find book reviews of foreign-language books through Lexis-Nexis, follow the search outlined below.
Upon entering Lexis-Nexis, select "News" under "Academic Search". You will immediately go to "Guided News Search", which is comprised of several steps. You must enter information for "Step One" to "Step Three" to perform a search.
"Step One: Select News Category", select "Non-English Language News".
"Step Two: Select a News Source", select a language, i.e. Spanish or Portuguese Language News; To select individual newspapers go to "Source List "and check those of in interest. You can choose up to 5 .
"Step Three: Enter Search Terms": enter pertinent terms.
"Search Four: Narrow range to a specific date"; this step is optional.
"Step Five: Search this publication title(s)"; this step is optional.
Other good source for book reviews are online article databases:
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window
- Virtual Library-Miguel CervantesThis online library offers open access to nearly 200 thousand bibliographies and many items that are now in the public domain.
Dissertations
Dissertations are excellent sources for your own bibliography, as doctoral candidates need to summarize the scholarly literature in their field. Browse these resources to find relevant dissertations.
US
Proquest's Dissertations and Theses
LAC
LA Referencia - Thesis and Dissertations
Red de Repositorios Latinoamericanos
Repositorio Académico UPC - Tesis
Tesis digitales—Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM): TESIUNAM
Brazil
Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertaçõnes
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
To access information on theses, click on "Banco de Teses."
Banco de Teses e Dissertações (BTD)
Spain
Bases de datos de tesis doctorales (TESEO)
Catálogo de tesis doctorales catalanas
Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Citation Management Tools
Make your life easier: use citation management tools like Mendely, EndNote and Zotero. These are an online tools that let you store bibliographic citations from library catalogs and databases, such as MLA, generate annotated bibliographies and citations in a wide range of citation styles and share bibliographies with classmates and colleagues.