The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Portuguese and Spanish Texts

See also under International Collections: Europe: Portugal and Spain, Literature: General Works, and literature time periods.

• Archivo virtual de la Edad de Plata, 1868-1936. Madrid, Spain: Residencia de Estudiantes. English descriptive title: Archive of the Silver Age of Contemporary Spanish Culture, 1868-1936. Multimedia, multinational  distributed digital archives. Web interface available in Spanish or English. Date added: 2002-01-05.
• Biblioteca Electrónica Cristiana. Lima, Peru: VE Multimedios. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
• Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (Universidad de Alicante and others). Browse and search electronic versions (HTML and digital facsimiles) of Spanish language works on a variety of topics, including special sub-sites devoted to individual authors. Site includes works in other languages translated into Spanish. Date updated: 2002-09-08.
• The Cervantes Project (Texas A& M University) includes electronic texts and supporting research materials by and about the author of Don Quixote.
• Comedia (Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc., Arizona). A collection of Spanish language comedia texts and English translations are found at this site, along with supporting research materials.
• Latino Tampa Periodicals Collection. Tampa, FL: USF Libraries Digital Collections, University of South Florida. Digital facsimiles of selected 19th and 20th century Spanish language periodicals published in Tampa. Date accessed: 2004-04-17. Date added: 2004-04-17.
• Leopoldo Alas Clarín. Hosted by Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Multimedia site by and about the author Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901) who wrote under the pseudonym Clarín. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Hosted by Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Multimedia site by and about the early 17th century author best known for the novel  Don Quixote. The 400th anniversary of its publication will be celebrated in 2005. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Projecto Vercial (Projecto Geira da Universidade do Minho, Portugal). Browse electronic works in Portuguese by time period, author or title. Site includes biographical data about each author.
• Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives (American Memory, Library of Congress). Most of the nearly 60 full-text searchable titles are in Spanish and published between 1831-1929.
• Spain, the United States and the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas (American Memory, Library of Congress).
• Spanish Online Resources (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library). Searchable/browsable collection of electronic versions of Spanish language works (chiefly literature). Some works are restricted works.
• United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures = O projeto Brasil e Estados Unidos: Expandindo Fronteiras, Comparando Culturas. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Bilingual (English and Portuguese), multimedia digital library from Brazilian and American sources. Summary: " explores the history of Brazil, interactions between Brazil and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, and the parallels and contrasts between Brazilian and American culture and history. The project is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil. ... part of the Library of Congress's Global Gateway project to establish cooperative digital libraries with national libraries around the world.." Date accessed: 2004-03-17. Date added: 2004-03-17.
• Universidade de Coimbra, Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril, 25 de Abril. Site dedicated to the history of the revolution that started  on April 25, 1974 and put Portugal on the road of becoming a democracy, and which includes various full-text documents relating to this historical event in the section titled Arquivo Electrónico da Democracia Portuguesa. Date accessed: 2004-03-06. Date added: 2004-03-06.

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