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SPW4930 / SPW6902 Graphic Narratives in the Hispanic World

Hispanic Graphic Novels and Comics in the UF Libraries.

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  3. Search the library catalog for books or journal titles: Links to online books and journals are also contained within the catalog. 
  4. Search subject databases to find articles in journals: If you are trying to decide which database is appropriate for your research, look at the list of databases listed on the Databases and Journals Tab.

To find copies of graphic novels and comics in the UF Libraries, you can search the catalog for an author or title. Additionally, you can try searching by call number or using one of the following subjects. 

Most of the comics and graphic novels in our collections are found under the call number PN6790.

Some helpful subject headings include:

  • Comics (Graphic works)
  • Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary
  • Comic books, strips, etc
  • Comic books, strips, etc -- Latin America -- History and criticism
  • Comic books, strips, etc -- Spain -- History and criticism
  • Graphic Novels

Books and eBooks not at UF?

For books not at UF you can either borrow them through UBorrow or the Interlibrary Loan Service (ILLIAD).

UBorrow lets you request print books (not eBooks sadly) directly from participating Florida state university libraries when the item is not available at UF.

ILLIAD is a service that can provide you (a UF library patron) with materials that are not available from the UF Libraries – either copies (of articles and book chapters), or loans (books, microfilm, media, etc.).

Literature and Linguistics Databases

It is Gale's most comprehensive online database for literary criticism, analysis, biographies, and more. It offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 published novelists in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.

It abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.

This is a resource for literary programs with full text journals and reference material to help contextualize primary works and authors.

It provides comprehensive coverage of literary criticism for literature worldwide.

Journals in the OpenEdition Freemium for Journals are the product of over 30 publishers, universities, university presses, learned societies, research centers, and organizations.The journals cover all humanities and social sciences fields and are published in French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, and Portuguese.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Provides Full-Text Academic Journals Covering the Major Areas of Academic Research.

This database is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.

Full text for more than 1,500 journals. Indexing and abstracts for more than 3,000 journals. This database offers worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.

JSTOR provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals.

It offers full-text versions of scholarly journals (humanities and social science) with over 120 publishers currently participating.

Multidisciplinary journal indexing and citation database with coverage back to 1900.

Main Latin American Databases

The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.

HAPI provides complete bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Latin America and the Caribbean since 1970. Their coverage includes everything from political, economic, and social issues to the arts and humanities.

It contains over 10,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet. LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America.

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