Searching the Web

en Español

How to Search | Evaluating | Search Engines | More Search | News | Citing Sources

How to search on the Web

• Aprendiendo a Usar la Internet
• Current Events in Latin America Research Guide from Lawrence University: see the section on "Searching for Current Spanish Websites."
• Domain Suffixes
• Vocabulario para la investigación en español

Evaluating Web Sites

• Evaluating Web Sites

Spanish Language Search Engines and Directories

• Altavista Works with Spanish and some dialects.
• Buscar.com Like About.com.
• Ciber Centro Information gateway to Latin America.
• Google Espanol
• Search Engine Colossus Links to search engines and directories worldwide.
• Yahoo! en Español

See also the Spanish History and Culture and the Latin American History and Culture reserach guides.

Other Gateway / Directories

• Access International Covers a wide range of categories from government to geography.
• DMOZ Open Directory Project Human-edited directory of the Web.
• Governments on the Web
• Houghton-Mifflin Spanish Language Resource Center Web Links Links for news, culture, etc.
• International Organizations: Political Database of the Americas NGO's not necessarily in Spanish
• Intute: Arts and Humanities Catalogs online sources in the humanities.
• Political Resources on the Web Up-to-date list on government and non-government resources. Sponsored by RadioRadical, Italy
• Spanish Classes in New York It's not just about classes in New York. Great lists of Spanish Books, links to online Spanish magazines, dictionaries, Spanish keyboard, and a Spanish language chat-room are just some of the items.
• Voice of the Shuttle Research links in over 25 categories.
• Union of International Associations List of organizations (subscription) and topics (free registration)
• The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs International politics, including NGOs.
• The WWW Virtual Library: Latin American Studies Latin Amererica. Explore this site for more topics.
• The WWW Virtual Library: Nongovernmental Organizations

See also the Spanish History and Culture and the Latin American History and Culture reserach guides.

Online News

• Abyz News Links Links to international newspapers, news media, etc
• All the Web News advanced Multilingual.
• BBC Mundo News from the highly regarded British Broadcasting Company
• CNN En Español
• General Interest Magazines In Spanish.
• Newspaperindex.com Selective links worldwide.
• Periódicos en español Newspapers (mostly) in Spanish.
  

Citing Sources

The MLA format (Modern Language Association) is commonly used to create bibliographies or works cited pages. The sources below may help you.