Advanced Guide to Spanish and Portuguese Literature: Online Resources

A large-scale digital library project, hosted and maintained by the University of Alicante in Alicante, Spain. It comprises the largest open-access repository of digitised Spanish-language historical texts and literature from the Ibero-American world. (Humbul, 2006)

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Digitized collection of executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national government between 1821 and 1993. The collection is made available by the Latin American Microfilm Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

It is both a bibliographic index and a gateway to online resources relevant to the field. The site provides a searchable index of Brazilian scholarly journals and contains additional relevant resources, including a news page, an online directory of institutions, a bibliography of print sources, and links to selected websites relevant to researchers.

Enjoy many thousands of digital cultural and visual Chicano/Latino arts images available for online viewing through the California Digital Library.

The BDH is a portal for the digitized material of the Spanish National Library. It includes books published between the XV & XIX century, manuscripts, drawings, posters, photographs, maps, atlases and sound recordings.

The National Library of Portugal is the largest library in the country and a prestigious institution on the cultural scene. It collects, processes and preserves the nation’s bibliographic heritage and makes it available to the intellectual and scientific community.

Its a project of the Cultural Ministry and the Autonomous Communities of Spain with the objective of disseminating collections of manuscripts and imprints of the Spanish Historical Patrimony.

Brazil's National Library offers free access to its portal of digitized national newspapers and journals.

dLOC is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. It provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Full-text access to fundamental Portuguese texts related to art, science, law, education, history, language, literature, music, and other areas.

This cooperative effort provides online access to almost 2.5 million bibliographic records from several Portuguese libraries.

The Brazilian Academy of Letters is devoted to the Portuguese language in Brazil and is considered the ultimate authority on Brazilian Portuguese.

Created in 2010 by the General National Archives, the National Library of Anthropology and History (INAH), the Center for the Study of Mexican History CEHM- Carso, and the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA) they bring together historical and cultural documents relevant to the organizations with the cooperation from numerous libraries and Mexican archives to create a digital multi-institutional Mexican library.

The site provides research and academic resources, as well as a source for news, art, music and recipes from this region.

Interactive editions of important works in Spanish, from Duke University. Some works are bilingual editions.

The Libraries and Librarianship section links to important library and archival collections and resources from Spain and Portugal. The Library Catalogs and Information Servers section links to the national libraries of both countries.

The Catálogo Colectivo de Impresos Latinoamericanos hasta 1851 (CCILA) is an ongoing effort to catalog the printed heritage of Latin America and the Philippines before 1851.

The Luso-Asio-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory (LAABST) is a collection of hybrid books in open access on luso-brasilian studies and theory.

Full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America from 1959 to present.

Over 850 newspapers with access to 575 full-text titles. Coverage: 1980's to present

Full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from 11 Latin American countries. Coverage: 2005 to present.

GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community and the changes in gender roles over the years. Some archival material dates back to 1970 in some cases.