About the Basque Database (covering the period 1995- present)
The Basque Database was created at the Basque Studies Library at the University of Nevada, Reno with a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and additional support from the University Libraries and the Center for Basque Studies.
Scope
The database provides access to information about Basque topics written or produced after 1994. Core journals are indexed completely while other journal articles appear in the database when they fit the scope of the database. Formats included are articles, books, chapters of edited books, dissertations, and other publications. Also included are Basque-related videos and DVDs, musical recordings, maps, and other media. The database currently contains more than 18,000 records. Please use our Suggestions Form if you would like to recommend a resource for the Basque Database.
Full text
Whenever permission has been obtained, the database includes the full text of articles and papers. Approximately 10% of the indexed articles are available in their entirety through the database.
Topics
Basque topics that are well-covered in the database include
- Culture and Society; multiculturalism, cuisine, television, fashions, games and sports such as pelota (jai alai), traditional music and dance, festivals, popular culture, social change
- Arts and artists; Jorge Oteiza, Eduardo Chillida, Félix de Echevarria, Nestor Basterrechea, Agustin Ibarrola, etc.; sculpture, painting, films / cinema, the Bilbao Guggenheim
- Literature; poets and writers, Bernardo Atxaga, Robert Laxalt, Pio Baroja, etc.; bertsolari, poetry, fiction, legends, folklore
- Language and linguistics; bilingualism, trilingualism, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, ikostali, origins, oral traditions, grammar
- Music; roots, indigenous, bertsolari, folk, jazz, contemporary, musicians, instruments
- Philosophy and religion; Catholicism, mythology, Miguel de Unamuno
- Women, feminism, and gender issues
- Diaspora; migration (immigration and emigration), assimilation, cultural autonomy; Basques in Latin America (especially Argentina), Australia, New York and the Western United States (especially Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon, Arizona, Wyoming), the Philippines and Canada (especially Nova Scotia and Newfoundland), boarding houses, restaurants, sheep industry
- Politics; ethnic identity, separatism and self determination, nationalism, ETA organization and peace process, the European Union
- Economics and Industry in the Basque Country and diaspora communities; collectives, cooperatives, tourism, mining, sheepherding, fishing and whaling, entrepreneurs, globalization, economic policy, pollution
- History and Prehistory; origins, invaders, genetics, dna evidence, Carlists, the Spanish Civil War, Spain under Franco, Guernica, Basque government in exile, Basque explorers in the New World (Juan de Oñate, Juan Bautista de Anza, Vasco da Gama, etc.)
Background
This Basque Database continues the work of Jon Bilbao (1914-1994), "The Father of Basque Bibliography." His 15-volume Eusko-Bibliographia covers all publications written by or about Basques through 1980, containing a half million citations. With a team of bibliographers, Bilbao continued indexing Basque works until his death in 1994. Although his later work was not published in book form, it has been made available through the Eusko Bibliographia database produced by the Biblioteca Foral, the Regional Library of Vizcaya. Older records from the printed bibliographies are being added to that database. The Basque Database of the University of Nevada, Reno updates the previous work.
Other Databases
Other Basque-related databases cover additional time periods and other publications:
- Aurkinet - Universidad de Deusto (articles from 139 journals, 1940-2006)
- Fundación Sancho el Sabio - digital collections and databases in Spanish, Basque, English, and French
- Eusko Bibliographia - Biblioteca Foral of Bizkaia (pre-1995 bibliographic records)
- Inguma - database of the Basque Scientific Community
- Koldo Mitxelena databases
- Kulturaldi - Fundación Sancho el Sabio & Koldo Mitxelena (articles from 16 journals)
Project staff
- Kathryn Etcheverria - Project Co-director
- Donnelyn Curtis - Project Co-director
- Molly Beisler - Basque Studies Cataloger
- Gotzone Garay - Indexer; Graduate Assistant
- Juan Arana Indexer; Graduate Assistant
- Lisa Foley - Database developer; Graduate Assistant
- Michelle Rachal - Cataloger; Library Technician I
- Urko Colomo - Indexer; LOA
- Daniel Gebhardt - Student assistant
- Jessica Myer - Student Assistant
- Joseph Garton - Student Assistant
- Bryan Hallauer - Student Assistant
- Trevor Parrish - Student Assistant
- Project Advisory Board
Updated 6 April 2007