USMA Library Homepage: Foreign Languages & Literature: Spanish

Welcome to the general Spanish page! Below you'll find links to Spanish databases where you can find journal articles on Spanish topics and a brief guide to browsing books on various Spanish topics on our shelves. You are also able to search Scout or the Library Catalog; all our books, ebooks, and journals can be found that way.

Spanish Databases at the USMA Library

Below you will find quick links to some of the most commonly accessed resources, you can always access the entire list of Foreign Language Databases here!

If you are looking for Films in Spanish, check out

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
View documentaries, educational films, and news clips in a wide range of subject areas. Transcripts available.
Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window
This collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes. It focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award winners, and more.
Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro This link opens in a new window
Explore the full text of over 800 plays from 16th and 17th century Spain. Also included are associated texts, stage directions, and frontmatter.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Stream access to feature films, documentaries, and television shows.
We license individual titles from Swank for course reserves. Faculty may request additional titles within the platform. The lead time to fulfill requests varies, taking at least several working days and sometimes much longer.

To read recent news articles or magazines in Spanish, check out

ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
Covering business and management topics, this resource contains full-text journals and much sought-after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports.
PressReader This link opens in a new window
Provides thousands of newspapers every single day, extracting text and images and making articles instantly translatable, searchable, and easy to read on mobile devices.Coverage is typically the most recent 90 days.

If you are doing research in Spanish, check out

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection This link opens in a new window
Historical articles and complete texts of over 1,100 historical books on Hispanic American literature and culture. The content is 80% Spanish and 20% English and is indexed and searchable in both Spanish and English.
Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
Explore a major multi-disciplinary index for the study of East, Southeast, and South Asia. It contains citations for Western-language journal articles, review articles, conference proceedings, chapters in edited volumes, and Festschrift published worldwide that relate to the study of Asia. The database aims to cover a broad range of subjects, with a special focus on the humanities and social sciences. Some of the subjects covered include anthropology, art, economics, history, language, literature, political science, religion, and sociology.
Early English Books Online : EEBO This link opens in a new window
Ebooks in many subject areas, including English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Search across all available Gale Primary Sources databases:
Archives Unbound
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2015
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1823–1978
The Times Digital Archive
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Collection of millions of scanned books and other publications. Allows searching of the complete texts of a wide range of books. Login with westpoint.edu credentials to enable enhanced downloading.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 2,500 journals, with full text for more than 300.
JSTOR (includes Books on JSTOR) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and books in a wide range of disciplines.
User's Guide: https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360000063528-An-Introduction-to-Searching-on-JSTOR
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Explore an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts, most with links to full text, for U.S. public policy research from over 350 think tanks, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.

Provided by the Class of 1946.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of databases, many with full text.
State Papers Online, 1509-1714 and 1714-1782 This link opens in a new window
Browse government records from early modern Britain and Europe, including many documents from the National Archives of the UK. Examples include the official records of the secretaries of state serving the ruling monarch of the day, encompassing every facet of early modern government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions, and intelligence.

Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona
The Universitat de Barcelona Digital Repository is an institutional resource containing open-access digital versions of publications related to the teaching, research and institutional activities of the UB's teaching staff and other members of the university community.
PALABRA in the Classroom
A resource created by the Library of Congress that provides educators with suggested collections of materials from the archive’s hundreds of audio recordings that can be used to help students practice language learning and literary analysis skills. Each grouping includes a list of recorded authors, titles and timestamps for each author’s readings, and suggested questions and exercises for teachers to incorporate the recordings into their lesson plans.
RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Acces Obert)
RACO (Catalan Open Access Journals) is a cooperative repository from which full-text articles from Catalan scientific, cultural and scholarly journals can be consulted in open access with the main purpose of increasing their visibility.
Revistas PUCP
Periodical publications whose purpose is to disseminate information on advances and research in a specific scientific or technical area, with their target audience being members of the academic community (researchers, teachers, students, etc.). These journals mainly publish original research articles that have undergone a double blind peer review process.
SciELO Espana
Scielo Spain is a virtual library made up of a collection of Spanish scientific journals in the health sciences selected according to pre-established quality criteria.
SciELO Mexico
SciELO Mexico is a virtual newspaper library made up of a collection of Mexican journals from all areas of knowledge. since 2004 it has been developed by the Directorate-General for Libraries and Digital Information Services (DGBSDI) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
SciELO: Organizaciones Mantenedoras y Ejecutoras
List of other connected institutions with digital repositories. Contains most Central and South American Countries and more.

Spanish Web Resources

These resources are outside of USMA, but they still contain valuable information. They can be helpful when researching or practicing in Spanish.

Research Resources:

Digital Commons Network: Spanish Literature
National Library of Spain: Biblioteca Nacional de España
National Library of Mexico: Biblioteca Nacional de México in partnership with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
ICJ International Commission of Jurists
Library of Congress collections:
- Spanish Legal Documents (15th-19th Centuries)
- The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
News Resources:
- BBC Mundo
- Cambio 16
- CNN
- El País
- Fama
- Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica
- News in Slow Spanish
- New York Times in Spanish (www.nytimes.com/es/)
  - Instructions for first time users
- Univisión Noticias
New York Public Library
Television Resources
- LangMedia videos from international students 1999-2002.
- Easy Spanish on Youtube
World Bank Open Data

Practice Resources:

Audiria Spanish podcasts arranged by level of proficiency.
Sublearning Quiz yourself by translating subtitles from your favorite movies.

Practice Reading Comprehension:

Kwiziq: Spanish Reading Practice A collection of interactive reading exercises with links to English translations.
Lingua Short articles and conversations designed to help Beginning students.
Snappy Spanish Short stories focused on the basics of grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure that progress to higher levels.
Spanish Boom Spanish texts with English translations and professional audio.
Spanish Circles Free Spanish readings for Beginner and Intermediate levels. Readings contain videos and English translations.

West Point Center for Oral History: Spanish Resources:

Being Where the Action is: A Special Forces Advisor in El Salvador
- Greg banner
"Let the West Pointer do it": Leadership in the Military, Diplomatic Corps, and Academia
- Santiago "Sonny" Busa
Practical Counterinsurgency in Latin America
- Michael Sheehan
Undocumented Immigrant to American Patriot: The Story of a Son Tay Volunteer
- Noe Quezada

Please note that the resources listed in this section are hosted by groups separate from the USMA Library. The USMA Library can NOT guarantee access or resolve connection issues to these resources.

Spanish Books in the USMA Library

Browse the shelves, head up to the south east side of the 4th floor and find the call numbers that start with "PQ." Here's a general listing of subject areas:

PQ6001-8929 Spanish literature
PQ6001-6168 History and criticism
PQ6170-6269 Collections
PQ6271-6498 Individual authors and works to 1700
PQ6500-6576 Individual authors, 1700-ca. 1868
PQ6600-6647 Individual authors, 1868-1960
PQ6650-6676 Individual authors, 1961-2000
PQ6700-6726 Individual authors, 2001-
PQ7000-8929 Provincial, local, colonial, etc.