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Spanish: Literature, History, Culture & Film
Research guide to databases, websites, and reference works for information on Spanish language literature, history, culture and film
REDalyc
- REDalyc (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal)Bibliographic database and a digital library of open access academic journals and theses on scholarly topics. Developed and maintained by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Articles may be in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
Open Access (Free) Journals, Books & Databases
- Biblioteca Virtual: Miguel de CervantesAn extensive open-access repository of Spanish historical texts and Spanish-language literature from Spain and the Americas. Includes biographies, chronologies, complete collected works, translations, sound recordings, interviews, filmographies, dictionaries, images, and more. Contains all the works of Cervantes including various historical versions. Links to other Spanish and Latin American literary sites.
- Internet ArchiveA non-profit, public digital library founded in 1996 offering free online access to a wide range of out-of-copyright fiction and non-fiction books in English or foreign languages, as well as archived web pages, historical newspapers, video and audio files. You can create a free account to access some copyrighted books for one hour renewable checkout.
- Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (digitized)Newly digitized recordings of poets and prose writers from the Library of Congress' Recording Laboratory recorded originally on magnetic tape. Includes Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, and Carlos Fuentes among many others.
- Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (Hispanic Digital Library)Biblioteca Nacional de España - National Library of Spain
Freely accessible portal to digitized collections including books, images, music scores, photographs, engravings, posters, maps, sound recordings, manuscripts, pamphlets, historic newspapers, and magazines. Date coverage 15th century forward1884-1885 issues of El Progresso Nueva York - Hemeroteca Digital Biblioteca Nacional de EspañaA large and growing collection of Spanish historical newspapers and journals digitized by the National Library of Spain. Coverage is 17th to early 20th Century primarily from Spain but including content from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Portugal, Mexico and Cuba. Title list in search page.
- LatIndex (UNAM)Gateway to a growing collection of open access academic journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.
- LIBRO: Library of Iberian Resources OnlineJoint Project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and University of Central Arkansas, contains full text of recent but out-of-print university press books. Focus is on history of peninsular Spain from 5th to 17th Century.
- Memoria Chilena httExtensive resources including downloadable elibros by Chilean authors.
http://www.memoriachilena.cl - Sonetos del Siglo de Oro: Golden Age Spanish Sonnets httSite, sponsored by a Spanish professor at Sweet Briar College, offers full-text of Spanish sonnets in both Spanish and English. There is an index of poets, and sonnets are searchable by first line. Links are also provided to Spanish- and English-language websites for literary texts and some criticism.
http://sonnets.spanish.sbc.edu/ - REDalyc (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal)Bibliographic database and a digital library of open access academic journals and theses on scholarly topics. Developed and maintained by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Articles may be in Spanish, Portuguese or English.