Scholarship Resources

Advanced Research Sources
Here are some links related to Theater, Hispanic Culture, and Spanish that you might find useful. Please feel free to consult any of them. All links will open (and reuse) a new window.

página actualizada: 21-VII-2006

Comedia y literatura:

Comedia Page of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. Includes a large database of printable/downloadable comedia texts, some with English translations.

Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico Classical Theater official web page (Spain). Offers information on upcoming performances, publications, staging, etc.

Museo Nacional del Teatro Official web site (Spain). Offers limited information about their collections. (With English version).

Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escenicas y de la Música Official web site (Spain). Some information about upcomming performances, conferences, and other related information.

30th Annual Siglo de Oro Drama Festival hosted at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater (National Park Service) El Paso, Texas.

Festival de Almagro Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico. Almagro, España.

Compañía del Corral de Comedias de Almagro General information on the Corral de Comedias de Alamgro, Spain.

Bibliotecas y archivos:

Not all links here will be available if you come from outside the UH domain.

MLA Modern Langauge Association International Bibliography database. Access restricted to UH students/faculty.

WorldCat Perhaps the most comprehensive online library catalog covering all topics, listing what is held by more than 13,000 libraries worldwide. Updated daily. Offered through FirstSearch. Access restricted to UH students/faculty.

EBSCOHost A journal database covering many topics. Index with partial and full text available on-line. Restricted access to UH students/faculty.

Fuente Académica Full text Spanish schollarly academic journals. A service of EBSCOHost. Restricted access to UH students/faculty.

UH Hamilton Library

UH Digital Archives Collection. Hamilton Library

Voyager UH Library catalog

Libros UNM's General Library Catalog.

ILLiad UH interlibrary loan service.

UNM Latin American and Iberian Collections & Resources Access to electronic sources on and about Latin American and Iberian literature, politcs, history, etc.

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Fantastic online resource of electronic books, (mostly 'classic' Spanish literature), as well as information and discussion forums on contemporary Spanish and Spanish America literature and other related topics.

Centro Virtual Cervantes Fantastic resource of many topics related to Spanish as a language, including culture, literature, and other quality references available online.

Cervantes Official journal of the Cervantes Society of America. Schollarly articles about Cervantes' life and works.

Instituto Cervantes Spain's public institution created to promote and teach Spanish and Spanish America language and culture.

Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque Spain's public institution created to promote and teach Spanish and Spanish America language and culture.

Project Gutenberg Large collection of electronic texts. Mostly in English.

Project Muse John Hopkins University electronic journal collection.

Archivo General de Indias Offers basic information about the collections of documents related to the Americas written during the 16th and 17th centuries. Alas, the databases can not be accessed remotely.

Archivo General de la Nación Offers detailed information about the collections of documents related to the Americas written during the 16th and 17th centuries. The databases can be accessed remotely. Of particular interest would be the ARGENA III section.

Archivo General del Estado de Yucatán Offers some information on special collections related to the state of Yucatán.

Archivo Histórico del Distrito Federal Contains searchable index for some of their collections.

Museo Nacional de la Revolución Interactive collection of images and documents about the Mexican Revolution. Some documentation can be downloaded.

HAPI Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Index of published journals from 1970 to present on topics of Latin American and Hispanics in the United States.

RLA Romance Language Annual. Digitized RLA articles from 1989-1999. Purdue University.

Cantar de Mio Cid Contains the entire poem read in Spanish, color slides of the manuscript, and various paleographics transcriptions of the text.

The Virtual Zifar On-line resources for the text of the Caballero Zifar includes images of the frist few folios of the text.

Gramática:

Real Academia Española Main page of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).

Conjugador de verbos Verb congujator by the RAE. This service is now linked to each verb entry in the RAE dictionary. See: Diccionario de la Real Academia XXI ed. (2001) below.

Página del idioma español A good source on many topics regarding the Spanish language with an alternate English section.

Dartmouth College Composition Center An excelent resource for students and faculty.

Diccionarios:

Diccionario de la Real Academia XXII ed. (2001) (Java) Most recent Spanish dictionary.

Diccionario de la Real Academia XXII ed. (2001) (non Java)

Nuevo Tesoro Lexicográfico de la Lengua Española Access to several Spanish dictionaries from 1726 to 1992.

Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas A service of the RAE. Provides answers to the most common linguistic doubts and problems of usage in Spanish. Very useful.

Diccionario Básico Español-Maya-Español a service of the UADY.

Diccionario Nahuatl-Español-Nahuatl

Diccionario del español usual de México Very useful dictionary of Spanish as is used in Mexico. An edition of the Colegio de México. Service provided by Cervantes Virtual.

Academia Mexicana de la Lengua Very useful dictionary of Mexican Spanish and a 'Refranero.'

Corpus Diacrónico del Español (CORDE) a service of the RAE.

Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) a service of the RAE.

Davies/NEH Corpus del español 100 million word corpus of Spanish texts funded by the NEH and created by Prof. Mark Davies of Brigham Young University.

Diccionario de antónimos, sinónimos, palabras relacionadas y conjugador de verbos A service provided by the Universidad de Oviedo and El Mundo.

Español, bilingües, técnicos y regionales Very large selection of dictionaries that cover many disciplines.

Glosarios y especializados A selection of glossaries and other specialized dictionaries, in English and Spanish.

Diccionarios.com An acceptable on line Spanish-English-French-Català dictionary as well as fairly good Spanish Thesaurus.

Noticias en español:

La Jornada (México). Excelent Spanish newspaper of World and Mexican events.

Proceso

El País (España). Excelent Spanish newspaper. You must subscribe to read some sections.

EZLN (México) Official page of the Frente Zapatista de Liberación Nacional.

El Mundo (España). Very good Spanish newspaper with ample world affairs coverage.

Universidades en México:

Links to some of the largest universities in Mexico

U de G Universidad de Guadalajara.

UADY Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán.

UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

IPN Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

CONACYT Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.

CINVESTAV Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Unidad Mérida.

El Colegio de México

El Colegio de Jalisco

ITESM Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.

Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas

Cultura:

LANIC Latin American Network Information Center service provided by the Univesity of Texas, Austin. Links to information on Latin America, accessible by topic and countries. Very useful and organized.

CONACULTA Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes (México).

Instituto Nacional Indigenista México.

Yucatán: Identidad y Cultura Maya very useful site with a wealth of scholarly information on Yucatán and the Maya. Service provided by the UADY.

Guadalajara

Arte:

Some artist/art specific pages...

La casa azul Museo Casa de Frida Kahlo.

Tina Modotti

Deigo Rivera

Arquitectura mexicana

Librerías:

Selected on-line publishers/bookstore with significant collections of literature in Spanish. (Note: These links are provided as a convinience and I do not endorse or obtain any gain from using any of the links listed).

Editorial Castalia España y México.

Casa del Libro España.

Ediciones Cátedra España.

Librería gandhi México.

Schoenhof's U.S.

Gobierno

Some Mexican government related  pages...

SEP Secretaría de Educación Pública. Official goverment page of the Secretariat of Education.

IFE Instituto Federal Electoral. Mexico's public and autonomous organization in charge of organizing federal elections.

Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos

Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores

Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática