Collection News - September 2009

• One Book One Community
• Hispanic Studies Resources
• Proxify your Links
• INSPEC-O-RAMA
• Literature Resource Center Enhancements

A True Story

In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it. Luis Alberto Urrea tells the story of this modern odyssey in The Devil's Highway, the 2009 "One Book One Community" title for Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas.

You can check out a copy of The Devil's Highway at the Mullins Library Circulation Desk. You can also join one of several discussion groups. One Book One Community events, including lectures and a visit from the author, begin September 15th.

Want to know more about the author and the topic? You can read biographies and critical appreciations of Luis Alberto Urrea's work in the Literature Resource Center database. For background information on the borderlands, immigration, and Chicano studies, see the resources listed below.

Beginning in 1968, Congress and the President have designated a time span (first a week, then a month) during September and October for celebrating the cultures and contributions of Hispanic Americans. The University Libraries offer several specialized resources for studying Spanish and Latin American histories and cultures, including:

• Handbook of Latin American Studies
  Since 1935, the Library of Congress has produced this important bibliography listing books and articles on all topics related to Central and South America, such as anthropology and archaeology, history, politics, literature, economics, and more. Now you can search through thousands of indexed publications through this powerful tool.
  
  
• Historical Abstracts
  Covering scholarship on world history and culture outside of the U.S. and Canada, this database indexes thousands of articles, book collections, and dissertations on Central and South America. Use its sister database, America: History and Life, for research on Hispanics in the United States.
  
  
• CLASE and PERIÓDICA
  These two indexes are produced at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and offer access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
  
  
• JSTOR and Project MUSE
  Each of these journal collections offer full-text access to important articles on a wide range of Latin American topics. Journals included are:
  • JSTOR:
    • Hispania, 1917-2005
    • Hispanic American Historical Review, 1918-1999
    • Hispanic Review, 1933-2005
    • Journal of Latin American Studies, 1969-2003
    • Latin American Perspectives, 1974-2005
    • Latin American Politics and Society, 2001-2005
    • Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 1970-2000
    • Journal of Inter-American Studies, 1959-1969
    • Latin American Research Review, 1965-2005
      
      
  • Project MUSE:
    • The Americas (Vol. 57, no. 2 (2000) through current issue)
    • CR: The New Centennial Review (Vol. 1 (2001) through current issue)
    • Economía (Vol. 1 (2000/01) through current issue)
    • Hispanic American Historical Review (Vol. 79, no. 3 (1999); Vol. 80 (2000) - vol. 84 (2004); archive only)
    • Hispanic Review (Vol. 73 (2005) through current issue)
    • Hopscotch: A Cultural Review (Vol. 1, no. 3 (1999); v. 2 (2000/01); archive only)
    • Journal of Latin American Geography (Vol. 2 (2003) through current issue)
    • Latin American Music Review (Vol. 22 (2001) through current issue)
    • Latin American Politics & Society (Vol. 46 (2004) - vol. 49 (2007); archive only)
    • Latin American Research Review (Vol. 38 (2003) through current issue)
    • Luso-Brazilian Review (Vol. 41 (2004) through current issue)
    • Nepantla: Views from South (Vol. 1 (2000) - vol. 4 (2003); archive only)
    • Nuevo Texto Crítico (Vol. 21 (2008) through current issue)
      
      
• Lexis Nexis Newspapers
  Did you know that Lexis Nexis Academic has the full-text of almost 50 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals? Browse the Source List of Non-English Language news sources to see titles such as El Universal (Mexico City), Palabra (Satillo), El Nacional (Venezuela), Cinco Dias (Madrid), and La Republica (Uruguay).

Of course, you can also find information on Hispanic topics in almost all our resources, including EconLit, GeoBase, AnthroLit, Art Full Text, and others. Check out our portal page for Latin American Resources for even more search options.

How can you access library databases and ejournals from off campus? By authenticating yourself as a current University of Arkansas student, faculty, or staff member when asked for your UARK username and password. In order to be authenticated, however, users must link to resources through the Libraries' proxy server.

Faculty and instructors can make durable links to articles, journals, and search strategies to share with students via email or BlackBoard. But they may wish to add the proxy prefix and suffix information to those links so that students can use them from off-campus. The Proxifier Tool automates this work; you can also view a short video on creating links and adding them to your BlackBoard courses.

During September, the Libraries are celebrating the 40th anniversary of INSPEC, the comprehensive database for physics, electrical engineering, and related fields, with a head-to-head trial of the database on three different platforms. Try out INSPEC on Ebsco, Web of Knowledge, or direct from the publisher. More info on our Trials Page.

Have a paper due on A Doll's House, "A Rose for Emily," or Gilgamesh? Then the Literature Resource Center will be your new best friend!

Gale's Literature Resource Center offers articles, critical overviews, explication, and plot summaries on literary works by more than 130,000 authors. Full-text journal articles are available from more than 130 titles, in addition to reference series such as The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Twayne's Authors series, and the Scribner's Writers encyclopedias.

New indexes and searching functions allow researchers to pinpoint specific works of literature or authors more quickly than ever before. The advanced search function also allows users to search for criticism comparing two different works or to limit by category of publication (work overviews, reviews, criticism, and more).