Reference Sources

Most are located on the Main floor of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library.

Film

• Magill's Cinema Annual (1982-2004) UM/Ref. PN1993.3 .M34
• The New York Times Film Reviews (1913-2000) UM/Ref. PN1995.N4 +
• Variety Film Reviews UM/Ref. PN1993.V34

Latino/as and Multiculturalism

• Atlas of Hispanic-American History Ref. E184.S75 O287 2001 +
• Dictionary of Hispanic Biography UM/Ref. CT1343 .D53 1996 +
• Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism Ref. E184.A1 E58 1994
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America Ref. E184.A1 G14 1995
• The Hispanic American Almanac: a Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States Ref. E184.S75 H557 1997
• Hispanic Americans: a Statistical Sourcebook Ref. E184.S75H5655
• The Hispanic Databook: Detailed Statistics and Rankings on the Hispanic Population, Including 23 Ethnic Backgrounds from Argentinian to Venezuelan, for 1,266 U.S. Counties and Cities Ref. E184.S75 H567 2004 IN PROCESS
• Hispanics in Hollywood: an Encyclopedia of Film and Television UM/Ref. PN1995.9.H47 R49 1994
• The Latino Encyclopedia Ref. E184.S75 L357 1996
• Notable Latino Americans: a Biographical Dictionary UM/Ref. E184.S75 M35 1997
  

Books

For books at UMass, use the Library Catalog searches at http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/babel.cgi?dokma=http://umlibr.library.umass.edu/ . Best to be as specific as possible in your searching. Start with a subject search (use keyword if subject yields no results). You can use broad categories to browse for sub-topics or to later limit (by date, words in subject or words in title) for more focussed results.

The Library subject heading for Latinos is "Hispanic Americans"

Sample searches:

• Hispanic American Mass Media
• Hispanic American Motion Picture Actors and Actresses
• Hispanic American Motion Picture Producers and Directors
• Hispanic Americans and Mass Media
• Hispanic Americans In Motion Pictures

If UMass doesn't have the book(s) you need, try the other Five Colleges, by clicking on the Search Four College link.

Use Net Library - for online books

TIP: Use WorldCat and Other Library Catalogs when UMass and Five College system are not sufficient.

Journals (For browsing hot topics and seeing models of research writing in action. Many, but not all, are available online.)

Databases (Journal indexing and online journals. Once you have a topic, this is where you search for articles on that topic.)

Featured Databases

Try CrossSearch (Searching multiple databases simultaneously) 2/05

• Academic Search Premier - A multidisciplinary database with many linguistics and anthropology journals. Citations can be saved to a folder and exported directly to RefWorks.
• Alt-PressWatch - Several hundred U.S. alternative newsweeklies, covering issues like the environment, labor, public policy, and the peace movement. Citations can be exported directly to RefWorks.
  
• Anthropology Plus - Indexes articles, books, and more. If new to this database, see the Database Guide for info on getting started and search tips. Citations can be saved in a text file and imported into RefWorks.
• ComAbstracts - Indexes and abstracts communications journals.
• Communication and Mass Media Complete - Abstracts and full text of articles from several hundred sources, including core journals in communication and many in language studies. Citations can be saved to a folder and exported directly to RefWorks.
• Ethnic NewsWatch - Full-text articles from the newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic communities in the United States. Most articles are in English, but many from Latino periodicals are in Spanish. Citations can be exported directly to RefWorks.
• HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index - Citations to articles from social science and humanities journals in English, Spanish, and other languages, relating to Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
  
• Historical NY Times - The entire New York Times, searchable, in image files. Time Period Covered: 1851-1999. Citations can be exported directly to RefWorks.
  
• MLA International Bibliography - Indexes many articles on film (in addition to literature). Citations can be saved to a folder and exported directly to RefWorks.
• Reader's Guide Retrospective - Citations to articles in 600 popular U.S. magazines. Time Period Covered: 1890-1982. Citations can be saved in a text file and imported into RefWorks.
  
• Web of Science - Allows multidisciplinary searches combining arts, humanities, social science and science. Good for seeing who cited whom. Good for academic book reviews. Citations, abstracts, and other information can be saved in a text file and imported into RefWorks.

Other Databases

• Econlit Citations and abstracts for journal articles and some books relating to the field of economics. Citations can be saved to a folder and exported directly to RefWorks.
• ERIC Citations and abstracts for education journal articles (EJ references) and ERIC documents (ED references). Links to full text are provided for many recent ERIC documents. Older EDs are located on microfiche in the Du Bois Library Microforms Room. Citations can be saved to a folder and exported directly to RefWorks.
  
• Expanded Academic Index ASAP (includes full text) Similar to Academic Search Premier (see above).
• International Political Science Abstracts Citations to articles from international political science periodicals. Citations can be saved to a folder and exported directly to RefWorks.
  
• JSTOR (full text) Scholarly journals from many disciplines. From the earliest issue of each journal to between two and five years prior to the present. Therefore, does NOT contain very recent scholarship. Citations can be saved in a text file and imported into RefWorks.
• Left Index Citations to articles in scholarly and non-scholarly periodicals with a leftist perspective, covering areas such as labor movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization. Citations can be exported to RefWorks (through the Output tab and then clicking on the export to database link.)
  
• Lexis-Nexis - News section contains hundreds of newspapers from all over the world. (Full text)
• PAIS International - Public affairs (some links to full text). Citations can be saved in a text file and imported into RefWorks.
• PsycINFO Citations and abstracts for psychology journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations. Citations can be saved to a folder and exported directly to RefWorks.
  
• Sociological Abstracts Citations and abstracts for articles from sociology and related (anthropology, education, medicine, social psychology) journals. Citations can be saved directly to RefWorks.
  

Internet Resources

• Subject Specialist Librarians

Reserves

Click here for Reserve Books and Paper Copies of Articles and eReserve articles for classes (when available).

Citation Style(s)

Scholars in the Humanities (including English, Comparative Literature, Art and History) generally favor the MLA style outlined in:
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 2nd. ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1998. Ref. and Reserve PN147 .G444 1998

Scholars in Education and the Social Sciences generally favor the APA style outlined in:
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. [Ref. desk BF76.7 .P83 2001 or Reserve BF76.7 .P83 2001]. See also the APA Electronic Style (5th edition from Purdue University) or http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html (excerpted from the APA).

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Prepared for Honors 499, Commonwealth College Latinos in Hollywood, Fall 2004. Professor Susan McKenna
Library guide created by Isabel Espinal, Humanities & Anthropology Librarian
Last updated: 2/7/05