Links of Interest

Reference

Real Academia Española
http://www.rae.es/
You will find the Real Academia’s dictionary online at this site, discussions on spelling and grammar, and a section where you can email the Academia with questions on Spanish language usage.

American Heritage Spanish Dictionary
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dict_en_es/
A reliable resource for translating English-Spanish and Spanish to English.

Lexis-Nexus Academic Universe
http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/library/eresources/databases.htm
Available through the LIU library, this excellent database provides access to newspapers around the world, biographical information on politicians, country profiles, quotations, and business, legal and medical information.

Newspapers

Zona Latina
http://www.zonalatina.com/Zlpapers.htm
Find over 100 online newspapers from Latin America, including the Caribbean and Brazil.

Academic Journals Available through JSTOR (LIU Library Database)

Callaloo
Hispanic American Historical Review
Journal of Inter-American Studies
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs
Journal of Latin American Studies
Latin American Perspectives
Latin American Politics and Society
Latin American Research Review

Other Academic Journals
Some of these journals have the article content online, some have searchable indexes. If a journal has a searchable index, get the author, title of the article, year of publication, and page numbers so you can request it through the Library’s Interlibrary Loan: http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/library/about/ill.htm

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/anthurium/home.htm

Arachne: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies
http://arachne.rutgers.edu/

Journal of Latin American Anthropology
http://www.fiu.edu/~jlaa/

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13569325.asp