Ibero-Romance Linguistics and Literary Studies
Subject librarian
Ibero Romance Linguistics and Literary Studies - new acquisitions in the previous month
Curated list of the last months (from 01.06.2025)
Here you will find curated lists of subject-specific databases and journals from the holdings of Basel University Library. The lists are not exhaustive and are continuously maintained.
subject-specific training courses (in German)
An introduction to literature research for students of Ibero-Romance Linguistics and Literary Studies will be available every spring semester as part of undergraduate seminars (use of the library, printed holdings and electronic resources, an introduction to the library catalogue search and specialist databases, main other research tools). The dates will be provided during the undergraduate seminars (next: 01.04.2025, 10.15-11.45).
For subject-specific questions relating to information research, do not hesitate to get in touch with the subject librarian.
All training opportunities
An overview of all training opportunities available at the University Library (guided tours, reference managment, etc.) can be found here.
Internet resources
CLARIN-CH digital language ressources
Access to corpora in various languages
Romanistik.de
Most important Internet resource for Romanists in the German-speaking countries (in German)
FID Romanistik: Forschungsdaten
FID: Romanistik: Open Access
Valuable information from the German Fachinformationsdienst Romanistik related to research data and Open Access (in German)
Centro Virtual Cervantes
important address for Hispanists at the Instituto Cervantes (in Spanish)
Latin American Network Information Center (Lanic)
Comprehensive collection of links to Latin American countries provided by the Latin American Studies Association of the University of Texas
hispanistica.de
Website of the Deutscher Hispanistenverband (in German and Spanish)
Library catalogues and bibliographic databases
Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias (REBIUN)
Union catalogue of Spanish university libraries (in Spanish)
PORBASE – Base Nacional de Dados Bibliográficos
Access to the public catalogue of the Portuguese library network (in Portuguese)
Dialnet
Dialnet - University of La Rioja. Informs by email about current Spanish scientific literature
Bibliografía del Hispanismo
Bibliography of literature and linguistics related to the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque and Galician - compiled by the University of Münster (1978-)
Base de datos de libros editados en España
Bibliographic database of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport, ISBN database of publishers and books published in Spain
ÍnDICEs-CSIC
Información y Documentación de la Ciencia en España (ÍnDICEs): multidisciplinary bibliographic database of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
HLAS Web (Handbook of Latin American Studies)
Important interdisciplinary annotated bibliographic database for Latin American studies (since 1960), created by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress
Casa del libro
Largest virtual Spanish language bookshop
The Latin American Book Store
Annotated new releases of Latin American and Spanish titles
TFM-Centro do Livro e do Disco de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher and bookshop of Portuguese-language books in Frankfurt am Main
LeYaOnline
Portuguese online bookshop (partner company of Amazon.com)
Freely accessible full-text databases
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Most important full-text database for Spanish language literature, University of Alicante
Hispana
Portal to more than 3 million digitised items from Spanish libraries, archives and museums. Includes the important digitisation projects Biblioteca Digital Hispánica and Hemeroteca Digital (digitised newspapers and journals) from the National Library of Spain
The Cervantes Project and Collection
is composed of: Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO), Cervantes Digital Library (CDL), and Cervantes Digital Archive of Images (CDAI)
Projecto Vercial
The most important full-text database for Portuguese literature
Freely accessible electronic journals
Revista electrónica LEMIR
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature, University of Valencia
University Library holdings
Primary literature:
- critical editions of canonical authors in the Ibero-Romance languages. The main emphasis is on Spanish and Latin American literature in the original language. A few authoritative editions by Catalan, Portuguese and Brazilian authors
- selected fiction in the various Ibero-romance languages, mainly in Spanish
- a few selected titles of classics and modern fiction also in German translation
Secondary literature:
- important lexicons, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.
- comprehensive works of Ibero-Romance languages and literatures (such as literature and language histories, grammars, etc.)
- a wide provision of monographic literature for the study and research covering relevant themes especially in Spanish or in German, English or French
- important literary, linguistic and cultural journals
Historical collections:
- significant holdings of primary and secondary literature
No holdings:
- language teaching material, textbooks for Spanish as a foreign language
- works on literature and language didactics
- children's and young adult literature
Libraries with additional collections
- Bibliothek Maiengasse. Library of the Department of Ibero-Romance Linguistics and Literary Studies Basel
authoritative editions in the original languages (Spanish, Catalan); in addition to the basic resources, also selected research literature on main topics in this subject area - Pädagogisches Zentrum PZ.BS
Language teaching materials and works on literary and linguistic didactics - GGG Stadtbibliothek
Fiction (also translations), language teaching materials, literature on topics of interest for the general public, children's and young adult literature