Full-text Spanish language electronic books and journals. Users will need to create a free account to download content.
Large collection of ebooks in many subjects.
Much of the research about and from Latin America is published in book or monograph format. Heard Libraries acquire materials from all over Latin America, the United States, and Europe to provide coverage of important works. Some of these are physical copies, and others can be accessed digitally. To start finding books about Latin America, the Library Catalog is a great place to start.
Library Catalog is the catalog for ALL of the nine Vanderbilt Libraries. You can use it to find:
Books (electronic and print)
DVDs & Videos
Periodical Titles (not individual articles)
Reserve materials
and more...
Search the catalog here: https://catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu/ or from the library's homepage.
If you can't find what you need in the catalog, the following tools may be useful.
Catalog of books, manuscripts, websites, internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films, slides, newspapers, journals, magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, papers, and videotapes available at libraries worldwide. Cross-search OCLC databases: ArchiveGrid, ArticleFirst, Ebooks, ECO, ERIC, GPO, MEDLINE, OAIster, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, WorldCat, and WorldCatDissertations.
To effectively search the Library Catalog, you will need to use keywords, filters, and Boolean Operators.
Keywords are just that, distilling your research question into the most important, concise vocabulary. For example, if you are interested in women's rights in K'iche Maya communities in Guatemala, you might try: "K'iche Maya" women rights.
With keywords, you may need to think of synonyms, different ways to describe your question, and try different combinations of keywords. In the example above: "K'iche Maya" "gender equality"
To create a keyword from a string of words, use quotation marks to keep the string of words together: "K'iche Maya" in the previous example.
Boolean Operators, AND, OR, and NOT, are used to narrow and limit your search.
Using AND between words will ensure that your search results include all of your keywords: "K'iche Maya" AND "women's rights"
OR will include results that may have one or the other. This can be used to expand your results: "K'iche Maya" OR K'iche AND "women's rights" OR "gender equality"
And NOT is used to exclude certain terms from your results: "K'iche Maya" AND "gender equality" NOT immigration
Filters can be accessed in the left panel of your Catalog search results under "Refine your results." These allow you to narrow your results by scholarly or peer-reviewed sources, year, format, language, and subject.
