Periodicals and Databases
SpainPeriodicals
- Biblioteca Nacional—Catálogo Colectivo Español de Publicaciones Periódicas (C.C.P.P.)
A union catalog of periodicals held at 1,100 libraries across Spain. Maintained by the BN.
- Biblioteca Nacional—Prensa Digitalizada y Microfilmada
An online catalog of digitized and microfilmed newspapers. Maintained by the BN.
- Biblioteca Nacional—Revistas en Documentación Bibliotecaria
Catalog of library and information science journals. Maintained by the BN.
- Biblioteca Nacional—Hemeroteca Digital
Allows free access to Spanish newspapers and magazines published between the 17th-early 20th century. Titles include: Noticias generales de las cosas del norte por Sebastián Armendáriz, 1689-1696; El Correo mercantil de España y sus Indias, 1792-1808; Diario de Madrid, 1788-1825; El Español: diario de las doctrinas y de los intereses sociales, 1835-1848; El Imparcial, 1867-1936; La Época, 1849-1936; and El Globo, 1875-1932.
- Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica
The Spanish Ministry of Culture is now providing free online access to 2,000 historical newspapers published in Spain 1777-2005. More than 4,300,000 pages have been digitized from the collections of various State Public Libraries (Bibliotecas Públicas del Estado) as well as the Ateneo de Barcelona, the Ateneo de Madrid, the Fundación de Investigadores Marxistas, and several Spanish municipalities and universities.
- Revistas Científicas del CSIC
Directory of journals published by the CSIC, the Higher Council for Scientific Research in Spain.
- Hemeroteca Municipal de Madrid
Madrid's municipal library for periodical publications.
- Catálogo de Publicaciones Periódicas de REBIUN
Catalog of periodicals held at academic libraries in Spain. Click on the link "Publicaciones periódicas."
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes—Hemeroteca
- DIALNET
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.- COMPLUDOC
A periodical database providing citations to journals in Spanish and other languages. The Universidad Complutense of Madrid maintains this resource.- LATINDEX
Directory of scholarly journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Provides links to e-journals. Maintained by the UNAM.- SciELO
Free access to scientific journal articles from Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Spain.- 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.- Asociación de Revistas Digitales de España (ARDE)
An association promoting e-journals from Spain.- Revistas digitales (via Universia)
- Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE)
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. Open access.Databases and electronic projects
- Bases de datos Bibliográficas del CSIC
Full access restricted to susbcribers.
"The ICYT, ISOC and IME bibliographic databases covers the Spanish scientific production published in Spain from the 70s up to date. They mostly include articles from scientific journals, but also a selection of congress and conference proceedings, serials, compilations, reprots and monographies." Created by the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC) for the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Spain, the Bases de Datos del CSIC contains three databases that index Spanish journals and conference papers.
- ISOC - 1970 to present; contains nine subdatabases in the social sciences and humanities.
- ICYT - 1979 to present; science and technology.
- IME - 1971 to present; medicine.
- Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980
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.
- Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro (TESO)
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.
- 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
- 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."
PortugalPeriodicals
- Hemeroteca Digital, sítio da Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa (HML),
Lisbon's municipal library for periodical publications, now hosting a digital project of Portuguese magazines and newspapers in the public domain.- LATINDEX
Directory of scholarly journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Provides links to e-journals. Maintained by the UNAM.Databases
- Bibliografia Comparatista em Portugal (click on "CECbase - Demonstração")
Comparative literature database from Portugal. Full access restricted to susbcribers.
- 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."
- BITAGAP - Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses