Librarian - Carol Scamman
Email: cscamman@sfasu.edu
Phone: 936.468.1710
Office: 202e
Appointments Available
Subject Indexes | E-Text | Websites
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.
MLA Bibliography (Ebsco) provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide on literature and language topics.
Fuente Academica (Ebsco) is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers with full text coverage.
ClasePeriodica (FirstSearch) indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities.
Economia y Negocios (Ebsco) is a Spanish language database which focuses on business and economics periodicals published in Latin America and Spain.
MedicLatina is a full text Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by Latin American medical publishers.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) is a catalog of books, audiovisuals and other materials owned by libraries worldwide.
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) includes bibliographic citations for dissertations and theses world wide from 1861 to the present with full text access available for the newer titles and abstracts available for the older titles.
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Espinosa’s Exemplary Life of the Venerable Father Friar Antonio Margil de Jesus
This digital version from TIDES (Teaching Images Digital Experiences) is illustrated and in the original Spanish. It is an excellent resource for the study of the history of the Spanish language, colonial Spanish, and the history of Spanish exploration in Texas.
NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.
Online Books: Literature: French, Italian, and Spanish
Classic works in English translation from various sources.The Oxford Text Archive
The OTA works closely with members of the Arts and Humanities academic community to collect, catalogue, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings.
Websites
Language Learning Tools and Resources
Discover French Culture on the World Wide Web
Produced by the American Association of Teachers of French. Tours of historic sites, music and live radio broadcasts, newspapers such as “Le Monde”, and humor are all available. Some sites may be explored in French or English.TIDES (Teaching Images Digital Experiences)
A product of the Steen Library’s Digital Projects Department, TIDES offers users a wide variety of multimedia resources for both educational and personal use. It is a rich source of material on Mexico for students and teachers of Spanish and Latin American Studies. It includes K-12 lesson plans, extensive Día de los Muertos documentation in the form of videos, photographs and interviews, Mexican folk art, and virtual field trips to Mexico. Digital Projects is in the process of making all material available in both Spanish and English.
Flags of the World
The CIA´s World Factbook includes flags, maps, statistics, and a brief overview of each country.Citations
Frequently Asked Questions About MLA StyleDictionaries - German
LEO Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch,
Dictionaries - Spanish
Diccionario de la lengua española (Vigésima segunda edición) Online definitions in Spanish from the Real Academia Española
Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (Primera edición) From the Real Academia Española.
Verb Conjugaters
Verbix is an independent non-profit organization that aims to promote and protect linguistic diversity. This site contains verb conjugations for hundreds of languages, ranging from national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages.
Conjugador verbal / Verb conjugation
Online Spanish verb conjugator.Newspapers and Magazines
Please note that some periodicals may require personal subscriptions to read them in their entirety. Certain foreign newspapers and wire services can be searched in the source language within our newspaper databases. See Subject Indexes.
French
Newspaper
Le MondeMagazine
Paris MatchNewswire Service
BBC Afrique (News and audio from the British Broadcasting Corporation African newswire in French)German
Newspapers
Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Die FAZ),
Die Süddeutsche Zeitung
Die Zeit
Magazines
Spiegel Online (Der Spiegel)(weekly)
SternSpanish
Newspapers
La Jornada (México)
El Universal (México)
La Tercera (Chile)
La Razón (Colombia)
La República (Perú)
El País (Madrid, Spain)
La Vanguardia (Barcelona, Spain)
Magazines
Cambio16
La NaciónNewswires Service
BBC MUNDO (News and audio of the Spanish-speaking world from the British Broadcasting Corporation)
Additional Languages
BBC Languages (News and audio in 33 languages from the British Broadcasting Corporation)Research Tools
National Libraries
Bibliothèque National de France
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Deutsche NationalbibliothekPlay Locater
Inter-Play (Courtesy of Portland State University) Inter-Play is an index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals. The plays indexed in the database cover those from many different countries written in a wide variety of languages. It is updated continually. Please note that the play collections listed and call numbers are from books in the Portland State University collection. Check the Steen Library catalog to see if we have the collection listed and note our call number.
Travel/Study Programs
Office of International Programs (OIP), Stephen F. Austin State University. The OIP provides information on Study Abroad opportunities and Resources.
