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Spain: Databases & LibGuides

Databases

  • Asociación de Revistas Culturales de España (ARCE)
    An association of cultural magazines from Spain, distributing more than 90 titles on a broad range of topics such as literature, visual and performing arts, political thought, social sciences, photography, design and architecture.
  • Base de datos de libros editados en España Open access.
    Esta base de datos contiene referencias bibliográficas de los libros editados en España desde 1972, año en que nuestro país se unió al sistema ISBN. Está gestionada por la Agencia Española del ISBN. Los datos los proporciona el propio editor al tramitar y remitir a la Agencia el impreso de solicitud del ISBN.
  • Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980. Proquest database. Access restricted to susbcribers
    1980 to present; a resource for scholars of Spanish literature, Bibliografía de la Literatura Española provides bibliographic information on a wide range of subject areas including literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies and authors.
  • Bibliografía Española (National Bibliography of Spain) Open Access
    searchable online from 2007 onwards. Before in print.
  • Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE). Open access.
    The BOE is the official newspaper of the Government of Spain. It publishes the laws of the Cortes Generales, the dispositions of the Autonomous Communities, judicial rulings, royal decrees, and decrees of the Council of Ministers. From 1600 to 1900 was called the Gaceta de Madrid.
  • COMPLUDOC Open access.
    A periodical database providing citations to journals in Spanish and other languages. The Universidad Complutense of Madrid maintains this resource.
  • DIALNET Open Access. Partial Full text.
    An electronic index to periodicals and documents providing abstracts from articles published in 5,450 journals (429 freely available in full-text) and over 2 million documents.
    Dialnet es un portal bibliográfico que da visibilidad a la literatura científica hispana, recopilando y facilitando el acceso a contenidos científicos, principalmente a través de alertas documentales. Dialnet Plus es la versión avanzada de Dialnet que proporciona una serie de servicios de valor añadido, recopilando y clasificando por autores y materias una parte de la producción bibliográfica de la Universidad Carlos III (a través del vaciado de determinadas fuentes)
  • Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes). Open access.
    Base de datos de museos y colecciones museográficas existente en España, desarrollada con la colaboración de todas las Comunidades Autónomas.
  • Fuente Académica Ebsco. Access restricted to susbcribers
    Scholarly journal articles from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Covers most subjects, but particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, sociology. Includes up to 1871 journal full text (553 published in Spain)
  • InDICEs CSIC. Full access restricted to susbcribers.
    Plataforma de acceso global a la información científica publicada en las revistas académicas españolas de calidad, sustituyendo a las bases de datos ICYT, IME e ISOC.
    Recopila y difunde desde 1976 la producción científica del área de las Ciencias Humanas y Sociales publicada en revistas españolas. Esta base de datos multidisciplinar cubre las siguientes áreas temáticas: Antropología, Arqueología y Prehistoria, Arte, Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Ciencias Políticas, Derecho, Economía, Educación, Filosofía, Geografía, Historia, Lingüística y Literatura, Psicología, Sociología, Urbanismo y Estudios sobre América Latina. Consultar la Guía de uso
  • LATINDEX. Open access.
    Directory of scholarly journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Provides links to e-journals. Maintained by the UNAM.
  • LIBRO: Library of Iberian Resources Online . Open access
    "The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula. Consequently, the book list is principally drawn from recent, but out-of-print university press monographs. In addition, the collection includes a number of basic texts and sources in translation. These are presented in full-text format and reproduce all the matter included in the original print version. The collection focuses upon peninsular history from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries."
  • PhiloBiblon. Open access
    "A project to construct a bio-bibliographical database of early texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula and to provide access to this information through the Web." It contains three databases:
    • BETA - Bibliografía Española de Textos Antiguos
    • BITAGAP - Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses
    • BITECA - Bibliografia de Textos Catalans Antics
  • REDIB Red Iberoamericana Innovación y Conocimiento. Open Access.
    Plataforma de contenidos científicos y académicos producidos en acceso abierto en el ámbito iberoamericano, impulsada por el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) y Universia.
    En la plataforma se anuncia que "Esta web no será objeto de actualización ni prestará ningún servicio desde el 30 de junio de 2022". Tambien se dice que esta plataforma tiene incluidas 978 revistas publicadas en España
  • Revistas Científicas del CSIC
    Directory of journals published by the CSIC, the Higher Council for Scientific Research in Spain.
  • SciELO. Open access.
    Free access to scientific journal articles from Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Spain.
  • Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro (TESO)Proquest. Access restricted to susbcribers
    TESO is a full text database containing more than 800 plays written by 16 dramatists from sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. Each play is reproduced in full, including the "Preliminaries" which contain "aprobaciones", "censuras", and "privilegios." The editorial board of TESO selected the first editions of each volume and avoided facsimiles.

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International

Collections: U.S. and Britain
United States

  • The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)
    Tamiment Library, New York University, New York, New York
    "Founded in 1975, ALBA is a non profit national organization devoted to the preservation and dissemination of the history of the North American role in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and its aftermath. ALBA supervises a major archive at New York University's Tamiment Library--the most comprehensive historical archive documenting the involvement of North American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War."
  • Center for Basque Studies Library
    Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
    "The Basque Studies Library collects, preserves and provides access to materials about the Basque people and their culture. Begun in the 1960s as a component of the Basque Studies Program of the University of Nevada, Reno, the Library was established through donations of several personal collections owned by Basque scholars. Today, this unique collection supports the teaching and research of the Center for Basque Studies through the doctoral level. Further, it serves the local and international community of Basques seeking information about their culture and heritage and functions as a resource of Basque materials to scholars worldwide."
  • Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress
    Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
    "The Hispanic and Portuguese collections encompass research materials related to the societies (histories, cultures, languages) of the Iberian peninsula, Latin America and the Caribbean, and those areas where Spain and Portugal ruled--Angola and Mozambique, Damão, Goa, Diu, Philippines, Macao, and parts of the United States that were once Spanish territory."
  • Instituto Cervantes Library, Chicago
    Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, Illinois
    The library has a collection of about 6,000 books. The magazine collection has about 200 titles from 1996, mainly on cultural subjects. It also has a collection of 324 films and 220 documentaries on video, and a collection of 400 CDs of music of Spanish and Latin American composers and preformers.
  • Instituto Cervantes Library, New York
    Instituto Cervantes, New York, New York
    The library has an extensive collection of films, Contemporary Spanish and Spanish American Literature, and music.
  • John Carter Brown (JCB) Library
    John Carter Brown, Brown University Campus, Providence, Rhode Island
    "The JCB is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901. Housed within the Library's walls is an internationally renowned, constantly growing collection of primary historical sources pertaining to the Americas, both North and South, before ca. 1825. Most well-known, perhaps, are the Library's extensive holdings in the literature of European exploration and travel in the Western Hemisphere, from the first Latin edition of the Columbus letter of 1493, through nearly all of the contemporary narratives of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English discovery, exploration, and settlement."
  • José Rodrigues Miguéis Archives
    John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
    The archives contain the personal papers and selected volumes from the private library of the late Portuguese writer. The collection includes drafts and typescripts of his writings, personal and professional correspondence, notebooks, postcards, diplomas, calendars, diaries, photographs, legal and medical documents, drawings, newspaper clippings, book reviews, and monographs.
  • Portuguese Manuscript Collection
    Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
    "The majority of the 600 manuscripts can be traced to the private libraries of two Portuguese collectors, conde de Olivais e Penha Longa and Antonio Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro. A significant number of items are concerned with Sebastianism, the belief that King Sebastian, killed in North Africa in 1578, will return to restore Portugal to its former greatness; Luiz de Camões (1524?-1580), author of Portugal's epic poem Os Lusiadas; and the military orders of knighthood. Included are general historical works, histories of the Portuguese sovereigns, letters of seventeenth-century diplomatic figures, and a volume containing 201 letters (1774-79) of Manoel de Cunha Menezes, captain general of Pernambuco and Bahia. Also in the collection is material on the Peninsular Wars, the Miguelist civil strife, royal funeral ceremonies, the Inquisition, and genealogy. The manuscripts span a period of more than five centuries -- the earliest dates from 1438 -- and include original documents and copies."
  • Republican Spain, Civil War Propaganda Collection
    Special Collections, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
    "A collection of approximately two inches of pamphlets, speeches, newsletters, information briefs, and other forms of propaganda from the Spanish Civil War -- primarily from 1937 and 1938. This propaganda is mostly anti-fascist."
  • Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Collection Archive
    Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
    The collection "consists of approximately 40,000 "news" and "feature" photographs, several thousand negatives, and twenty cartons of business records, account books, logs, invoices, letters, scrapbooks, and tear sheets of a photographic picture agency which operated in New York City from 1932 to 1942. The strength of the collection resides in the many extraordinary photographs of events and people occurring just before World War II -- including documents of the Spanish Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, Nazi rallies in Germany and so on."
  • Spanish Civil War Posters
    Special Collections, Brandeis University Libraries, Waltham, Massachusetts
    "The collection contains more than 5,000 books and pamphlets pertaining to various aspects of the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish exiles, the Franco regime, as well as, literary works pertaining to the conflict. Also, it has a large selection of richly illustrated wall posters that were used for propaganda purposes, for which an online finding aid exists."
  • "They Still Draw Pictures"
    Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego
    A collection of over 600 drawings made during the Spanish Civil War by Spanish school children.
  • The Visual Front: Posters of the Spanish Civil War
    Southworth Collection, University of California Libraries, San Diego, California
    "All the posters from the Spanish Civil War in the Southworth Collection belong to the Republican side. The selection of forty-two posters presented here constitutes a representative sample of Republican propaganda."
  • The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War Homepage
    Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
    "This presentation provides resources and documents about the Spanish-American War, the period before the war, and some of the fascinating people who participated in the fighting or commented about it. Information about Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States is provided in chronologies, bibliographies, and a variety of pictorial and textual material from bilingual sources, supplemented by an overview essay about the war and the period."

Britain

  • Hispanic Section, The British Library

    The British Library, London, England
    "The aim of the Section is to acquire and make available selected publications in the humanities and social sciences at research level from Spain, Portugal, Latin America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and the former Hispanic territories in Asia and Africa."

Resources about Spanish Language
Spanish Dictionaries

Diccionario Historico de la Lengua (Fundación Rafael Lapesa)

Synonyms, Usage, Etc.