Library Guides: SPANISH and PORTUGUESE: Research Tools

Research Tools for Spanish and Portuguese

Use bibliographic tools like these to either focus or broaden your research:

Archival Collections and Primary Sources • Article Databases and Indexes • Bibliographies and Subject Guides • Book Review Sources • Dissertation and Theses • Libraries in Spain and Portugal • News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites

Archival Collections and Primary Sources

Biblioteca Nacional Digital (BN)

Biblioteca Virtual Miquel de Cervantes This link opens in a new window
Large collection of digitized books, and more. (Cervantes Virtual)
Digital library that provides free electronic access to one of the world's largest collections of digitized books, periodicals, documents, manuscripts, dissertations, images and audio-visual resources.
Digital Scriptorium This link opens in a new window
Images of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.
A growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. Among the participating institutions to this project are the Bancroft Library, the Robbins Collection, and the Hargrove Music Library at UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and the New York Public Library.
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Digitized collection of original manuscript and printed documents from around the world to support research in the field of colonial and empire studies. [1492-1962]
Includes 70,000 images of original manuscript and printed documents to support study and research in the field of colonial and empire studies. Five sections include: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; and Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism, c. 1607-1969. In addition to original documents, this database contains scholarly essays and analysis.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 This link opens in a new window
Guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. [1493-1750]
Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.
Europeana This link opens in a new window
Digital objects from European institutions.
Provides open access to more than 15 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers from more than 1500 European institutions. Europeana -- the European digital library, museum and archive -- launched in 2008 and is funded by the European Commission and its member states. This current prototype is one of many parallel projects of The European Library.
Gerritsen Collection, Women's History Online, 1543-1945 This link opens in a new window
Books, pamphlets, and periodicals from Europe, US, UK, Canada and New Zealand that reflect the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. [1543 - 1945]
Indexes over 4700 publications including books, pamphlets, and periodicals in 15 languages from Europe, US, UK, Canada and New Zealand that reflect the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights.
Hemeroteca Digital This link opens in a new window
This database includes fully searchable newspapers and periodicals from Spain and Latin America, spanning the 17th to 20th centuries.
The collection of digitized newspapers and periodicals represent variety of presses including policy, satirical, scientific, religious, illustrated, sports, artistic, and literary.
Indignados/15M Movement Collection from Spain This link opens in a new window
This collection contains several hundred digitized protest materials from the 2011 protest at Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Spain, where activists protested and demanded solutions to rising unemployment and other symptoms of the ongoing economic crisis in Spain. Materials include posters, picket signs, flyers, banners, pamphlets, and more.
LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online This link opens in a new window
Includes a number of basic texts and sources in translation focusing on Iberian history from the 5th to the 17th century. The list of texts included is based on recent but out-of-print university press monographs.
Socialism on film This link opens in a new window
This collection of films reveals war, history, current affairs, culture, and society, as seen through the socialist lens. It covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, and Cuba. [1917-1989]
Sourced from the archives of the British Film Institute (BFI), Socialism on Film documents the communist world from the Russian Revolution through to the late 1980s. The digitized films cover all aspects of the socialist experience from everyday life and society to culture, the Cold War, memory and current affairs. Geographically the films deal with the Soviet Union alongside groupings of material on Vietnam, China, Korea, the German Democratic Republic, and Eastern Europe, Britain, Spain, Latin America, and Cuba.

Article Indexes and Databases

Listed below is a broad selection of article indexes recommended for research in Spanish and Portuguese. For additional resources, please consult the Library's Electronic Resource Finder.

Available in Print Only

Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX / Daniel Pires. Lisboa: Grifo, 1996.
Main Stacks PN5324 .P57 1996

Dicionário das revistas literárias portuguesas do século XX / Daniel Pires. Lisboa: Contexto, 1986.
NRLF (UCB) PN5327.L6 Z997 1986

Diccionario de periódicos diarios españoles del siglo XX / Antonio López de Zuazo Algar. Madrid: Editorial Fragua, 2008.
Doe Reference PN5314 .L66 2008

Historical Periodicals Directory / Eric H. Boehm, Barbara H. Pope, and Marie S. Ensign, editors. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1981-c1986.
Main Stacks D20 .H53 v.1-5

La prensa española en el siglo XVIII: diarios, revistas y pronósticos. Francisco Aguilar Piñal. Madrid : C.S.I.C., 1978.
NRLF (UCB) PN5314.A12 A38 1978

Revistas literarias españolas del siglo XX (1919-1975) / Manuel J. Ramos Ortega, edición y coordinación general; José María Barrera López et al., coordinadores de capítulos. Madrid: Ollero y Ramos, 2005.
Doe Reference PQ6072.R448 2005 v.1-3

Library Databases

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles and other literature supporting critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. (Modern Languages Association Bibliography) [1926 - present]
Sponsored by the Modern Language Association.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Knowledge) This link opens in a new window
For more guidance on using this database see the following tutorials: Saving your search & setting alerts
Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola Desde 1980 This link opens in a new window
Subjects include literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies and authors.
Basque Database This link opens in a new window
Continues the work of Jon Bilbao (1914-1994), "The Father of Basque Bibliography." His 15-volume Eusko-Bibliographia covers all publications written by or about Basques through 1980, containing a half million citations.
Compludoc This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals at the library of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Some authors provide summaries. Interface in Spanish.
CSIC Bases de Datos Bibliograficas (Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) This link opens in a new window
One of four freely available article summary databases, this one provides citations to thousands of scholarly journals in the social sciences and the humanities mainly published in Spain. They mostly include citations from academic journals, but also a selection of congress and conference proceedings, serials, compilations, reports and monographs. Perform keyword searches in all journals included ("consulta conjunta") or by thematic area ("area tematica"). CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), the Spanish National Research Council, maintains four article summary databases from Spanish journals: Sumarios ICYT - Ciencia y Tecnologia (Science and Technology), Sumarios ISOC Ciencias Sociales and Humanidades (Social Sciences and Humanities), Sumarios IME - Biomedicina (Biomedicine), and ISOC - Biblioteconomia y Documentacion (Biblioteconomy and Information Sciences). Also included on the site are directories that provide descriptions of all journals included.
Dialnet This link opens in a new window
Lists almost 1.4 million articles in over 4,000 mostly Spanish journals and magazines, and thousands of books and dissertations. Subjects covered include primarily the sciences and technology, but also the social sciences, humanities, education, business, and law. Open-access database created by a group of Spanish universities under the leadership of the Universidad de la Rioja, Logrono, Spain. Free article-alert service for registered users.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index This link opens in a new window
Among the broad subjects Covered are women in art, women in religion, marriage, sexuality and family.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) This link opens in a new window
Indexes books, journals and proceedings to create an annual bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars, alternating between focusing on the humanities and the social sciences.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) This link opens in a new window
Indexes books, journals, conference proceedings, and official documents on Hispanic America (North, Central, and South), Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
Historical Abstracts
Excludes US and Canada. Covers from 1450 to the present.
IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur This link opens in a new window
Thanks to the Library's participation in a joint Germa0merican document delivery project called GBV, the Library can obtain copies of IBR articles from German partners in digital form quickly at no additional cost to users via Interlibrary Borrowing Services.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
More than 70 languages are represented, with 30% percent of records published in languages other than English.
ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Includes a number of databases useful to the fields of classical, medieval, and Renaissance studies such as Iter Italicum, a catalog of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections around the world, International Directory of Scholars, International Directory of Renaissance and Reformation Associations and Institutes, and Scholars of Early Modern Studies (volume 34).
Literature Resource Center (LRC) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to content of numerous print counterparts including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
LusOpenEdition This link opens in a new window
The institutional subscription to OpenEdition Fremium allows the UC Berkeley community to participate in an acquisitions policy that both supports sustainable development of OA and that respects the needs of teaching, research and learning communities: no DRM or download quotas are applied. LusOpenEdition is made possible with financial support from Centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte (Cléo, 2011- ), Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (2011- ), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2011-2014), and ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2016 – ).
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
Includes publications from over 120 countries. Some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The Archive covers English-language material only.
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text) This link opens in a new window
An online periodical archive that provides access to over 700 digitized journals in the humanities and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Index Online, provides additional indexing for articles in over 4,700 periodicals.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) This link opens in a new window
Indexes millions of articles published in over 4,700 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of over 700 journals published between 1802 and 2005.
R-CSIC This link opens in a new window
CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) provides open access to more than 30 scholarly journals from Spain in a broad range of disciplines. See also Digital.CSIC.
RACO: Revistes Catalanes amb Acces Obert (Catalan Journals in Open Access) This link opens in a new window
Mostly Catalan, and some Spanish.
RedALyC: Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y El Caribe This link opens in a new window
Developed by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. All journals from Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) are now aggregated through and included in RedALYC.
SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online This link opens in a new window
Journals from Portugal, Spain, and South Africa are also included. The SciELO project is an initiative of the Foundation for Support to Research of the State of São Paulo, Brazil (FAPESP) and the Latin American and Caribbean Center for Information on Health Sciences (BIREME).
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
TRACES This link opens in a new window
A freely accessible bibliographical database that collocates all that has been published on Catalan language and literature. The TRACES project was created in 1987 by the Grup d'Estudis de Literatura Catalana Contemporania (GELCC) at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Also indexes other resources related to research and commentary on women and women's issues, feminism, and gender.

Bibliographies and Subject Guides

Selected lists of materials in any format organized around a common theme or topic.

Online Resources

Bibliografía informatizada da Língua Galega (BILEGA)
Boletín Bibliográfico de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval (Boletín AHLM)
Oxford Bibliographies Online - Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Reformation, etc.
PhiloBiblon: A Database of Catalan, Portuguese, & Spanish Manuscripts (UC Berkeley)
*The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity / E. Michael Gerli, Ryan D. Giles, eds. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021.
*The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth Century Spain / Elisa Martí-López, ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021.
Teatro del Siglo de Oro (BNE)
Traces: base de dades de llengua i literatura catalana

Available in Print Only

Bibliografía cronológica de la linguística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español desde el año 1701 hasta el año 1800 (BICRES).
/ Hans-Josef Niederehe. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1994-2005. Main Stacks PC4070.A12.N5 1994 v.1-3 (1994-2005)
Bibliografía géral dos Açores: sêquencia do Dicionario bibliográfico português
/ João Afonso. Angra do Heroísmo: Secretaria Regional da Educação e Cultura, 1985- Main Stacks DP702.A86.A12 A35, 1985 t. 1-3 (A-FU) & Online
Bibliografía de linguística general y española, 1964-1990
/ Valerio Baéz San José et al. Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Alcalá, 1995- Main Stacks P121.A12 B52 1995 v.1-5 (c1995-1999) Index (v.7)
Biblos: enciclopédia Verbo das literaturas de língua portuguesa.
manual de repertorios bibliográficos para la investigación de la historia y la literatura hispanoamericanas y filipinas/ Sylvia-Lyn Hilton, Lisboa: Verbo, 1995-2005. Doe Reference PQ9006.B53 1995 v.1-5
*The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by David Thatcher Gies, ed.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Main Stacks DP48 .C233 1999 + Online
Catálogo de novelas y novelistas españoles del siglo XIX
/ Juan Ignacio Ferreras. Madrid: Cátedra, c1979. Doe Reference PQ6144.A12.F4
Diccionari de la literatura catalana
/ director `Alex Broch. Barcelona: Enciclop`edia Catalana, 2008. Doe Reference PC3901 .D52 2008
Diccionario del cine español
/ Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinemátograficas de España; dirección de José Luis Borau. Madrid: Alianza Editorial: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores: Fundación Autor, c1998.Doe Reference PN1993.5.S7.D54 1998
Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de ultramar.
Por Pascual Madoz. Madrid [Est. tip. de P. Madoz y L. Sagasti] 1845-50. Main Stacks DP12.M2 v. 1-16 (1845-1850) + Bancroft Reference, NRLF & Online
Dicionário de autores de literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa
/ Aldónio Gomes, Fernanda Cavacas. Lisboa: Caminho, c1997. Main Stacks PQ9900.A52.G66 1997
Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do modernismo português
/ coordenação, Fernando Cabral Martins. Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, c2008. Doe Reference PQ9261.P417 Z459 2008
Dicionário de literatura: portuguesa, brasileira, galega, africana, estilística literária
/ Jacinto do Prado Coelho, direção. Lisboa: Figueirinhas, 2002- Doe Reference PQ9006 .D535 2002 v.1-3
Diccionario del cine iberoamericano: España, Portugal y América
/ editor y coordinador: Emilio Casares Rodicio. Madrid: SGAE: Fundación Autor, 2011- Doe Reference PN1993.45 .D528 2011 v.1-4 (2011); v.6-10 in preparation
Dicionário do cinema português, 1989-2003
/ Jorge Leitão Ramos. Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, c2005. Doe Reference PN1993.5.P6.R353 2005
Diccionario histórico, geográfico y cultural de Filipinas y el Pacífico
/ Leoncio Cabrero Fernández, Miguel Luque Talaván, Fernando Palanco Aguado, coordinación y dirección. Madrid: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional: Fundación Carolina, 2008. South/Southeast Asian Library DS667 .D53 2008
Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula
/ edited by German Bleiberg, Maureen Ihrie, and Janet Pérez. New York: Greenwood Press, 1993. Doe Reference PN849.S6 D54 1993
Double Minorities of Spain : A Bio-bibliographic Guide to Women Writers of the Catalan, Galician, and Basque Countries
/ edited by Kathleen McNerney and Cristina Enriquez de Salamanca. New York: MLA, 1994. Doe Reference PC3904.D68 1994
Escritoras españolas, 1500-1900: catálogo
/ La Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. Madrid: Chadwyck-Healey España, c1992-c1993. Doe Reference PQ6173.B52 1992a v.1-2
The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature
/ Janet Pérez, ed. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2002. Doe Reference Hall PQ6055 .F46 2002 v.1-2
Guía del cine español
/ Carlos Aguilar. Madrid: Catedra, 2007. Doe Reference PN1993.5.S7.A68 2007
Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988
/ Robert W. Kern, editor-in-chief, Meredith D. Dodge, associate editor. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. Doe Reference DP192 .H57 1990 + Main Stacks
Historical Dictionary of Portugal by Douglas L. Wheeler
2nd edition. Lanham, MD;: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2002. Doe Reference DP535 .W44 2002
Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975
/ James S. Olson, ed., et al. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. Doe Reference DP56.H57 1992
Manual bibliográfíco de estudios españoles
/ Fernando González Ollé. Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 1976. Doe Reference DP17.A12G6
Portugal in Africa: A Bibliography of the UCLA Collection
/ Gerald J. Bender et al..Los Angeles, 1972. Main Stacks DT36.A12 C3 + NRLF (UCB)
Postcolonial African Writers : a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
/ Pushpa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Doe Reference PL8010 .P585 1998 & Online
The Post-colonial Literature of Lusophone Africa
Patrick Chabal with Moema Parente Augel et al. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1996. Main Stacks PQ9900 .P67 1996
A Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language: A Selected, Annotated Guide to Spanish, Spanish-American, and United States Hispanic Bibliography, Literature, Linguistics, Journals, and Other Source Materials
/ by Donald W. Bleznick. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, c1995. Doe Reference PC4071.A12.B46 1995
Spain: A Companion to Spanish Studies
New ed. / edited by P. E. Russell. London: Methuen, 1973. Main Stacks DP48 .R871 1973
Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Source Book
/ edited by Linda Gould Levine et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. Doe Reference PQ6055.S63 + 1993 ed. in Main Stacks
Teatro español (de la A a la Z)
/ Javier Huerta Calvo, Emilio Peral Vega, Héctor Urzáiz Tortajada. Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid): Espasa, c2005. Doe Reference PN2781 .H84 2005
Vanguardism in Latin American Literature: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide
An Annotated Bibliographical Guide / compiled by Merlin H. Forster et al. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. NRLF (UCB) PQ7081.A12.F67 1990
Women Writers of Spain: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide
/ Galerstein, Carolyn L., ed. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Doe Reference PQ6055.A12 W651 1986

Book Reviews

Most library databases for this grouping index primarily US and UK publications. The online and print sources listed below are better for non-US reviews. MLA, Historical Abstracts, and Periodicals Index Online are also good article databases for locating discipline-specific reviews in Iberian studies as are specific journals like Hispanófila, Revista Iberoamericana, or Revista de Literatura. Because of its broad coverage, UC Library Search can be of the best places to find book reviews (hint: refine by "resource type" review).

Online Resources

BlogTailors o blog da edição

CriticaLiteraria.com

Letras Libres

Mercurio panorama de libros

Revista de libros (RdL)

Available in Print Only

Book Review Digest (1905-present)
Lists and selectively excerpts reviews from 90 popular journals in English.
Doe Reference Periodical Indexes Z1219 .B8 & Online

Most recent issues are in Current Periodicals, Heyns Reading Room of Doe Library.

Delibros. Madrid: Delibros, S.A.
Main Stacks Z2685 .D45 Library has 1990-
Latest in Current Periodicals, Heyns Reading Room

Insula. Madrid: 1(1946)-
Main Stacks f Z1007 .I568

Letras Libres. Coyoacán, México: Editorial Vuelta, 1(1999)-
Main Stacks AP63 .L48 + Online

O meus livros. Lisboa: FirstMedia, 1(2002)- START HERE
Main Stacks Z2715 .M48

Qué leer. Barcelona: Qué leer día a día
Main Stacks Z1007 .Q45 Library has 34 (June 1999)-

Revista de libros. Madrid: Fundación Caja de Madrid.
Main Stacks Folio f Z1003.5.S63 R48 + Online

Library Databases

Book Review Digest Plus This link opens in a new window
"Indexes book reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults, from over 8000 leading magazines from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Includes several thousand full text reviews. For book reviews published from 1905 to 1982 go to Book Review Digest Retrospective which can be searched separately or simultaneously."
Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1905-1982 This link opens in a new window
Over a million reviews of more than 300,000 books. For access to book reviews written since 1983, search Book Review Digest Plus which can be searched separately or simultaneously.
Dialnet This link opens in a new window
Lists almost 1.4 million articles in over 4,000 mostly Spanish journals and magazines, and thousands of books and dissertations. Subjects covered include primarily the sciences and technology, but also the social sciences, humanities, education, business, and law. Open-access database created by a group of Spanish universities under the leadership of the Universidad de la Rioja, Logrono, Spain. Free article-alert service for registered users.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Lists journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases may cover any given field more completely). Can be used with "Get it at UC" to access the full text of many articles.
Historical Abstracts
Excludes US and Canada. Covers from 1450 to the present.
IBR Online - Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen This link opens in a new window
Coverage 2001 - 2023. The International Bibliography of Book Reviews in Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences indexes over 830,000 book reviews with subject listings in German and English. [Thanks to the Library's participation in a joint Germa0merican document delivery project called GBV, the Library can obtain copies of IBR articles from German partners in digital form quickly at no additional cost to users via Interlibrary Borrowing Services.]
International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) This link opens in a new window
Covers Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) This link opens in a new window
Indexes millions of articles published in over 4,700 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of over 700 journals published between 1802 and 2005.
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Complete digitized archive of the Times Literary Supplement, collecting weekly book reviews and literary criticism from 1902 to 2014.

UC Library Search
One of the best places to find book reviews (hint: refine or limit by "resource type" review).

Dissertations and Theses

Find dissertations by searching Proquest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), which indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools and universities from 1861 to the present. Dissertations published since 1980 include brief abstracts written by the authors and some feature 24-page excerpts. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full text coverage for older graduate works.

Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources. Dissertations completed at UC Berkeley and at other UCs can be found in U C Library Search, limiting to dissertations under "Resource Type."

Older dissertations not available full text may be obtained through Interlibrary Loan.

For more extensive indexing of doctoral dissertations and theses from Western Europe, here are a few other resources to consult:

L'Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses (ANRT, National Center for the Reproduction of PhD Theses) Créé en 1971 par le Ministère de l’Education Nationale, l’Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses reproduit, sous différents supports (imprimés, microfichés et électroniques) les thèses soutenues en France dans toutes les disciplines, et assure leur diffusion tant institutionnelle que commerciale en France et à l’international.

Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
UC Berkeley Library students, faculty, and other researchers have liberal access to these rich source materials through interlibrary loan, electronic delivery, and a growing collection of digitized material.
DART-Europe E-theses Portal This link opens in a new window
Provides open access to more than 400,000 electronic theses and dissertations from more than 500 universities in 27 European countries in many languages. DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
Dialnet This link opens in a new window
Lists almost 1.4 million articles in over 4,000 mostly Spanish journals and magazines, and thousands of books and dissertations. Subjects covered include primarily the sciences and technology, but also the social sciences, humanities, education, business, and law. Open-access database created by a group of Spanish universities under the leadership of the Universidad de la Rioja, Logrono, Spain. Free article-alert service for registered users.
Europeana This link opens in a new window
Provides open access to more than 15 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers from more than 1500 European institutions. Europeana -- the European digital library, museum and archive -- launched in 2008 and is funded by the European Commission and its member states. This current prototype is one of many parallel projects of The European Library.

OPAC SBN: Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale - Italy
Portal de tesis digitales de REBIUN (Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias) - Spain
RCAAP - Portugal
TESEO Tesis doctorales - Spain
Theses Canada
theses.fr - France
TEL (thèses-EN-ligne) Part of HAL an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields. More than 110,000 full-text theses.

Spanish and Portuguese Libraries and Catalogs

Catalogs and guides to books, periodicals, and other materials in not only libraries and archives in Spain and Portugal but also other important collections worldwide.

Online Resources

Base de datos de libros editos en España (Ministerio de Cultura)
Bibliografía española in línea (BNE)
Bibliografia Nacional Portuguesa em linha (BP)
Biblioteca de Catalunya
Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE)
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (BP)
Hispanic Reading Room (Library of Congress)
Libraries and Archives in Spain & Portugal (ESS)
PORBASE - Catálogo Colectivo das Bibliotecas Portuguesas
Rede de Bibliotecas de Galicia

Available in Print Only

Bibliografia brasileira do período colonial; catálogo comentado da obras dos autores nascidos no Brasil e publicadas antes de 1808 . São Paulo: Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de São Paulo, 1969.
NRLF (UCB) F2524.A12.M6

Bibliografía das obras impressas em Portugal no século XVI / por Antonio Joaquim. Lisboa: Oficinas Gráficas da Biblioteca Nacional, 1926.
NRLF (UCB) Z2712 .A5 + Bancroft Reference

Bibliografía das obras impressas em Portugal no século XVII / João Frederico de Gusmão C. Arouca ; coordenação da edição, Manuela D. Domingos ; apresentação, Fernanda Maria Guedes de Campos. Lisboa: Biblioteca Nacional, 2001-
Main Stacks Z2712 .A76 2001 v.1-4

Bibliografía española. Monografias. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional, 1993-Continues Bibliografía española (1958-)
Doe Reference Z2685.B524 2006 + Main Stacks + NRLF & Online (current vols.)
Main Stacks Z2685 .B524 (1993-2006)

Bibliografia geral portuguesa. Lisboa: Impr. Nacional, 1941-
Main Stacks Z2711.A3 v.1-3 (1941-1983) + NRLF (UCD)

Catalogue of Books Printed in Spain and of Spanish Books Printed Elsewhere in Europe before 1601 Now in the British Library . 2nd ed. London: British Library, c1989.
Doe Reference Z2709.B8 1989 + Main Stacks + Bancroft Reference

La imprenta en Iberoamerica y Filipinas [electronic resource]. Madrid: Biblioteca Histórica; Chile, DIBAM, c1998.
Main Stacks Z1004.M4.I4 1998 compu/d

Iberian Books: Books Published in Spanish or Portuguese or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601 = Libros ibéricos: libros publicados en español o portugués o en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601 / edited by Alexander S. Wilkinson. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010.
Doe Reference Z173 .I24 2010

Portuguese and Brazilian Books in the John Carter Brown Library, 1537 to 1839: With a Selection of Braziliana Printed in Countries Other Than Portugal and Brazil . Providence, R. I: John Carter Brown Library, 2009.
Doe Reference Z881.P97 P67 2009

Spain and Spanish America in the Libraries of the University of California: A Catalogue of Books / University of California, Berkeley. Library. Berkeley: University of California, 1928-30.
Doe Reference Z2681.C3 v.1-2 + Bancroft Reference + Chicano Studies Reference

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