E-Texts in Spanish Literature

• More and more, researchers are asking where to search the complete works of a writer, or how to search an entire novel.
• The increasing number of full-text literary works on the Internet and on CD-ROM's has begun to change the way literary scholars work.
• Searching across the entire corpus of a writer, the ability to create concordances, the power to discover new correspondences and relationships in and among literary works - these capabilities are opening up new fields of inquiry in literature.
• Types of E-texts. Issues in using E-texts

DVD's and CD-ROM's in the Eisenhower Library 
(These are located in Audio/Visual on A level. Some do circulate.)

ADMYTE:  Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles.
ADMYTE is an ongoing project to provide access to the vernacular literatures of medieval Iberia. At the present, there are 2 parts in the Eisenhower Library: Volume 0 and Volume 1. A complete list of included texts is available.

• Volume 0 contains the ASCII (text) transcriptions of 64 medieval Spanish texts (manuscript and printed books), as well as 3 bio-bibliographic databases - the Bibliografia Española de Textos Antiguos, the Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Portugueses, and the Bibliografia de Textos Catalans Antics.
 
• Volume 1 contains transcriptions as well as black and white page images of 45 printed books dating from 1471 to 1524, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, grammars, legal and scientific works, chronicles, travel literature, and works of poetry.

• Volume 2 contains the complete semi-paleographical transcriptions of 290 significant texts from medieval and early modern Spain. In contrast to the previous version, ADMYTE II contains only transcriptions, without facsimiles, but allows direct access to the facsimiles of the earlier disc. 165 new texts have been added and corrected transcriptions from the earlier disc have been included. Includes dictionaries, legal texts, poetry. Some in Catalan and Arabic.
CompFile 73 and 2820

Miguel de Cervantes. The complete works.
CompFile 765

Literature Of The Spanish Caribbean: 1492-1900
Important literary and historical texts from the Spanish Caribbean, 1492-1900. Works ranging in genre from poetry to autobiography, in subject from history to medicine, economics and politics. More than 200 authors and more than 800 texts.
CompFile 1998

Lexico hispanoamericano, 1493-1993.
A CD that brings together the 5 volumes of Peter Boyd-Bowman’s extensive lexicon of the Spanish language used in the Americas. Each headword is followed by a number of citations illustrating its grammatical properties, semantic content, co-occurrence with other linguistic forms, and information on the sources from which the citations were taken. Fully searchable by any number of keywords or  indexes.
CompFile 3635

La Biblioteca Total: viaje por el universo de Jorge Luis Borges
A multi-media CD-ROM containing the texts of Jorge Luis Borges' works, facsimiles of manuscripts, photographs and other images, and audio and video segments. Each section has supplementary reference material.
CompFile 641

Web Resources that are licensed by the Library

Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro
A CD-ROM database containing the full text of nearly 900 dramatic works of the 16th and 17th centuries. Included are works by Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca. The database is searchable by title, author, keyword, and genre. Searches can be limited to specific parts of plays, for instance, stage directions.

Electronic Full-Text Sources: Spanish and Portuguese
A collection of links to e-texts from the ARTFL project.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online  (All US JHU)

Provençal database  (All JHU (incl. International))

Free Web Resources

WESS Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature.
Organized by language, and maintained by a librarian, this list has links to texts in all the major European languages, including Provençal, Galician, and Catalan. Most are freely accessible.

University of Virginia. Electronic Text Center
Includes approximately 51,000 humanities texts in 12 languages, with more than 350,000 related images. Some links are restricted to UVA users, but many are freely accessible. Information about the edition used in digitization is included.

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes
A joint initiative of the University of Alicante and the Santander Central Hispano Bank. Initial project includes 2000 texts in Spanish. Eventually, it is to include 30,000 works, from 16th century chronicles to early 20th century literary texts. Search on author, title or time period, but no full-text searching.

Biblioteca Virtual Mundo Hispano
A large list of links to Spanish digitized texts. There are sections on individual authors, periods, and genres - all with links to online text archives. Searching can be done on individual texts, using the browser "Find in page" function.

COMEDIA
A Web site sponsored by the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc. Includes many texts from the Siglo de Oro.

LEMIR: Literatura Española Medieval y Renacimiento

Labyrinth Library: Iberian Texts

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
A "dynamic reference work", maintained and updated by an editorial board. Over 950 professional philosophers are donating their time and labor to collaboratively write, referee, and maintain the reference work.

Project Gutenberg
The granddaddy of electronic texts on the Internet. Many language and literatures are to be found among the mostly English texts, including some of the more obscure European texts.

OAIster:
A searchable catalog of publicly available digital library resources provided by the research library community. Broad subject coverage.

IntraText Digital Library
A large international archive of e-texts. Many languages and literatures.


The Online Books Page
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web

Digital Scriptorium
An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.