Latin American Studies Resources

You can search for OWU resources using the tools below. As always, contact us if you're not finding what you need.

For help finding good resources on film, here are a few helpful tips:

• Focus on the adjectives and nouns in your topic.
  • 'Latin American literature' or 'Mexican authors' are stronger searches than just 'literature'.
• Get specific if you have a specific topic
  • Writing about Gabriel García Márquez? Search for 'Gabriel García Márquez' specifically.
• Like, get really specific, we mean
  • What are you writing about Gabriel García Márquez?
    • If you want to read Márquez's own work, an author search for 'García Márquez, Gabriel' could be your best bet
    • But if you want to read about his history, you'd do a keyword search for 'Gabriel García Márquez biography' or 'Gabriel García Márquez history'
    • And if you want criticism of his work, you'd try 'Gabriel García Márquez criticism' or 'Gabriel García Márquez interpretation'.
• You can ever get specific about the kind of sources you want.
  • In CONSORT, if you click on 'Modify Search' at the top of the screen, you can use the 'Other Material Type' to select 'e-books' and limit your results to just books you can access online.
  • In Summon, you can look on the side of the screen for 'Content Types' and click 'book/ebook' once, then scroll down to 'Subject Terms' and select 'electronic books' to limit your results to just books you can access online.

To find books, you can use OWUSearch, our library catalog. OWUSearch doesn't just search for physical books, but also lets you search for ebooks, journal articles, and even allows you to search for books at other schools, which you can order for free.

WorldCat is a catalog that expands your search even further, searching libraries all around the world. And yes, you can request items from here too.