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SPAN 340.001: Iberian Cultural Topics: Let’s Talk about Food: Cultural Identity in Spain: Articles
E-Research and Subject Librarians by Discipline
The E-Research by Discipline page is where you can find discipline specific:
- databases
- subject research guides
- contact information for the Subject Librarian covering specific disciplines
Effective Seaching Tips
*Keep track of what you find and where you found it.*
Once you've developed your research topic and have determined which database best suits your needs:
- Identify the key concepts and terms and combine them into a well-crafted search string
- Consider related terms
- Apply search strategies: quotation marks, Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT (in CAPS), asterisk and more...
- Use the ways that databases provide to filter your results: format, subject, date range of publication, peer-reviewed articles, and more
- Use useful tools offered by databases: citation, email, saving, printing, translation, and more..
- Need help? Ask a librarian.
Recommended Databases
- DialnetA virtual library of Spanish academic journals, hosted by the Universidad de la Rioja in Spain. It is primarily a database of tables of contents with a limited number of full-text articles available.
Note: English language search also available. - Latin America & Iberia DatabaseThis database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal.
- Academic Search PremierFind information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.
- Proquest CentralA general reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
- Google ScholarEnables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
- JSTORProvides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. UNC patrons have access to extensive retrospective holdings of hundreds of journals, starting with the first issues. Excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
- Project MuseProvides access to important university press and other scholarly publisher e-journals mainly in the humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
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