Since I am a cataloger of Iberoamerican materials, I have found quite a few sites that are helpful to me in one way or another. Here it is possible to create and update a site that lists the many sites that give me the information I need to do the job well.
List of sites to explore
This is a work in progress
I am always open to new sites of use. This module is to remind what areas I can keep adding to this Lens.
- Add as many of the publishers as are useful.
- Add in the universities that publish regularly
- there are quite a few quick reference or specialized reference that need to be added
Libraries which I consult
Here are a list of the national library catalogs that I consult
- ARIADNA Catalogue: Precise Search
- Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
- B.N. de Portugal: Search
- Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal catalog
- National Libraries of the World: Address List
- National Libraries of the World: Address List
whether they have a website or not, IFLA has them - The European Library - v1.1
- federated searching for many European libraries
Geographic sites
- Geonames Query Home Page
- the amazing site provided by our government to give us latitude and longitude coordinates of every town and feature in all the countries of the world other than our own
- Maplandia
- Link with Google Earth which gives coordinates with ADM levels.
- CIA - The World Factbook
- A handy quick reference to the structure and basic formation of all the countries of the world as provided by the CIA
- IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estat%uFFFDstica
- The Brazilian government geography site
- Instituto Geografico Agustin Codazzi
- The Colombian government geography site
- (INEGI) Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informatica
- the Mexican government geography site
- Pueblos de Espana
- A handy site of provinces and towns, etc. in Spain
- Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
- Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
- Portals to the World from the Library of Congress
- Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other
Quick reference
- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Home
- Since Catholics are probably the largest religious group in Hispanic countries, Catholic topics do come up occasionally.
- Hiperenciclopedia
- Website of the Hiperenciclopedia in english. It contains the most comprehensive collection of terms related to Catalonia extracted from the Gran Enciclopedia Catalana.
- Patron Saints Index
- Patron Saints Index. Hundreds of places, conditions, occupations and other topics with patron saints. Each topic has a list of its patron saints. Saints have biographical data, prayers, images, etc., is cross-indexed to other patronage topics, nationality, and calendar of saints and feasts.
- ORB: The Encyclopedia
- ORB Encyclopedia: A Topical Index -- medieval studies
- Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' - International Art, Business, Science & Technology
- a reference book -- not consulted much
- Acronym and abbreviation dictionary: Find out what over 2,977,000 abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms stand for
- Acronym Finder: the web's largest searchable dictionary of abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms.
- Virtualology A Virtual Education Project
- have found interesting little snippets of history information here
Quick reference -- literature
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, la primera en lengua castellana, es un fondo bibliográfico con obras de Literatura, Historia, Ciencias, etc., de libre acceso. Incluye trabajos de investigación, catálogo en otras lenguas y bibliotecas del mundo.
- The Academy of American Poets - Poets.org
- bios for poets
- The SurLaLune Fairy Tales Site: Table of Contents
- Helps to discover stories with many variations
- Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion.
- The premier encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and religion.
Quick reference -- language
- Ethnologue, Languages of the World
- Home page of ethnologue.com, a searchable database of language resources.
- Diccionarios en español
- Consulta online los mejores diccionarios y enciclopedias de español -- limited usage unless you pay
- Diccionario portugues
- free Portuguese language dictionary
- Dicionarios Porto Editora
- Dicionário da Lengua Portuguesa da Porto Editora On-Line
- The ARTFL Project -- French dictionaries
- The ARTFL project's collection of reference resources, Webster's Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, French English Dictionary, French Verb Conjugator
- Romance languages
- Interesting site with background information on the development of Romance languages
Hispanic publishers
- Editorial Espasa Calpe
- major publisher with multiple imprints
- Web Oceano
- major publisher with multiple imprints
- Grupo Santillana
- major publisher with multiple imprints
- Random House Mondadori
- major publisher with multiple imprints
- Alfaguara Global
- major publisher with multiple imprints
- Editorial Planeta - En portada
- Editorial Planeta. big imprint
