Cibera

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cibera was the virtual library for Ibero-America / Spain / Portugal. It was online from November 2004 to 2017 and represented a central point of entry for Internet research for specialist information on the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking cultural area. The web portal made it possible to identify and find digital full texts, Internet sources , magazines and entries in specialist databases free of charge, as well as to search through Specialist catalogs and a press archive.

cibera was operated jointly by the following institutions:

The project was funded by the DFG ( German Research Foundation ) and was a partner of vascoda .

It was replaced by the two specialist information services Romance Studies and Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies.

The most important offers

  • the catalogs of nine specialized libraries
  • a collection of selected, library-accessible and quality-controlled internet sources
  • a collection of digital full texts , mainly gray literature, university publications and articles from e-journals
  • a directory of research on Latin America, Spain and Portugal with the biographical and bibliographical data of over 1,000 scholars and experts in German-speaking countries
  • a press archive of selected articles from the internet offer of mainly Latin American daily and weekly newspapers since 1974
  • a scientific weblog , the ciberaBlog, which provides information about research options as well as topics of the virtual library
  • a research course on Hispanic Studies with information on academic work and sources of Hispanic studies
  • various databases with magazine tables of contents
  • Metasearch : cibera searches all resources at the same time.

Publications

  • Annette Karl, Wiebke von Deylen, Brigitte Farenholtz, Ulrike Mühlschlegel, Regine Schmolling, Christoph Strosetzki, Markus Trapp, Ralf Ullrich, Brigitte Waldeck, cibera: Virtual Library Ibero-America / Spain / Portugal. - Part 2: The individual elements, in: Bibliotheksdienst 40th Jg. (2006), no. 1, p. 27f. https://doi.org/10.1515/bd.2006.40.1.27
  • Annette Kolbe, Cross-Sections and Interfaces: Regional History Latin America, Spain, Portugal, in: History on the Net: Practice, Opportunities, Visions. Volume 10 • 2007 • Part II: Virtual specialist libraries for historical research, articles in the conference proceedings
  • Markus Trapp, cibera 2.0: The extension of the virtual library Ibero-America / Spain / Portugal with Web 2.0 functions. in: Bibliotheksdienst 43rd vol. (2009), no. 5, p. 517f. https://doi.org/10.1515/bd.2009.43.5.517

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