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Supplement your HOLLIS searching with a subject-specific search tool. For Romance Language materials in particular, many of our databases offer content that is not available in HOLLIS.
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Use HOLLIS to identify databases you want to search
HOLLIS Databases is a tool for identifying specialized search engines and large collections of digital materials. For RLL, we recommend searching by language and/or region.
Example searches
- Portug* OR brazil*
- Francophone OR french OR france
- Spanish OR Spain OR “Latin America” OR “Latin American”
- Ital*
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Top Picks
A selection of some of the largest databases for RLL languages: please ask us for more recommendations!
- TorrossaCasalini libri's full text platform offers access to journal and book content from over 200 Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese publishers.
- Revues.orgAn open-access portal to journal articles, books, academic blogs, and a calendar of academic conferences and events. About half the material is in French; 95% of the content is available in full-text.
- Classiques GarnierHuge full-text collection of French and Francophone materials, from the origins of French literature through the mid-20th century, plus the Bibliographie de la littérature française, which tracks French and Francophone literary scholarship since 1998.
- CAIRNJournals, magazines, books, and encyclopédies de poche from participating French and Francophone publishers. The library subscribes to the Humanities section.
- Handbook of Latin American StudiesA searchable, annotated bibliographic index of books, articles, conference papers, and other materials on Latin America in the areas of humanities and social sciences.
- Oliveira Lima LibraryTexts of 2,750 Brazilian and Portuguese pamphlets published from 1801-1983, on history, politics, and literature. 91% of the content is in Portuguese.
- Digitalia HispánicaE-book collection with thousands of titles from Spanish and Latin American publishers. The collection emphasizes academic works in a range of disciplines, and also includes some reference titles, fiction, and poetry.