Online resources
ISTEX
The Istex platform, a project developed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, offers online access to more than 30 million documents from 31 scientific literature collections in all disciplines, more than 9,654 journal titles, and 348,769 ebooks dating from 1473 to 2019.
The Casa library allows you to access this repository of documents on site via the search bar.
You can also access Istex via our catalog (among a wide range of other electronic resources). Simply check the Online box or search in the Electronic Documents section (on the top bar) and then Display by Collection.
Portals and databases
Hispanic portal developed by the University of La Rioja and the Dialnet Foundation. This portal lists scientific literature, theses, conference proceedings, university-level journals, etc. It includes bibliographies, references, and full-text documents.
Platform resulting from regional cooperation that offers a bibliography and online information on scientific journals and collections published in the following areas: Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal.
Multidisciplinary platform that brings together journals belonging to a vast network of scientific journals from Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Caribbean. This portal is developed by the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico.
A valuable aid for finding open access research resources, this page lists open archive platforms, open access digital books and journals, research data, and more.
Developed by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Autonomous Communities, this portal allows users to locate books and documents of historical value held in Spanish institutions and libraries.
Developed by the Cervantes Institute and the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport (Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte), this portal is dedicated to promoting Hispanic studies internationally at the university level.
Archives: Spain and Hispanic America
Lists archives and archival collections located in Spain and Hispanic America.
Mapping of Spanish university archives developed and updated by the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
Portal developed by the Ministry of Education for the dissemination of Spain's historical documentary heritage.
The archives of the Museo del Prado, the first Spanish museum to digitize its entire collection. More than 12,000 documents from the 19th and 20th centuries are accessible via the search page.
Open access e-book compiling contributions on access to archives in Spain. The book lists institutional archive collections and addresses topics such as historical memory, censorship, and transparency. It is the result of an editorial project developed by the 1º de Mayo and Francisco Largo Caballero foundations.
Virtual libraries and digital collections
Virtual library containing extensive digital collections of literature and history, listing resources related to the Hispanic world.
Providing access to over 9 million digital objects, this portal brings together digital collections from Spanish archives, libraries, and museums. This content aggregator feeds into the Europeana portal.
Portal for digitized documents from the National Library of Spain. Among the documents dating from the 15th to the 19th century are manuscripts, monographs, drawings, musical scores, cartographic material, etc.
Multidisciplinary digitized heritage collections of the Spanish National Research Council.
Digital library of the National Library of France.
This library offers access to a myriad of digitized resources, including books, newspapers, journals, manuscripts, iconographic documents, audio documents, maps, plans, musical scores, and medals.
Digital library providing access to collections of historical and contemporary newspapers and Spanish-language cultural journals covering a broad period (from 1777 to 2021). To date, this portal offers more than 7 million digitized pages.
This virtual library offers a large collection of manuscripts, books, iconographic and cartographic documents, musical scores, and educational resources. The documents come from Spanish autonomous communities, administrations, universities, libraries, museums, and archives.
Digital collection of the Spanish Ministry of Defense, which includes historical prints, engravings, photographs, digital documents, plans, maps, objects, etc., as well as official and scientific publications of the Spanish Ministry of Defense.
Training, open science, and documentary research
The Doranum project (Research Data: Digital Learning on Research Data), developed jointly by the Urfist network and Inist-CNRS, aims to raise awareness of the challenges of sharing and publishing research data. It is a distance learning program that offers a variety of resources for researchers, teachers, and doctoral students.
Three practical and easily downloadable guides on open science written by the Committee for Open Science and the University of Lille and published by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
The Passport to Open Science booklet was designed to support doctoral students in France across all disciplines. It offers suggestions for putting open science into practice at every stage of the research process, from developing the scientific approach to disseminating the results.
The Codes and Software booklet addresses issues related to the openness of codes and software produced and used in scientific research.
The Join the Debate booklet provides tools for discussing and debating open science issues with your professional colleagues.
A directory containing 164 entries on institutions and administrations under the French Ministry of Culture. Each entry contains a description of each organization (museums, conservatories, performance venues, libraries, etc.) as well as links to documentary resources.
A trilingual thesaurus (French, Spanish, and English) dedicated to the main concepts of open science, which is regularly updated.
This thesaurus was created by the Terminology Engineering Department of Inist-CNRS.
An online tool that supports researchers and data managers in integrating best practices to make their research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). URFIST Paris, the IRD's IST department, and INIST-CNRS developed this online tool.
