Project Muse

Full text articles from scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. 

Mango Languages

An online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages.

Real Academia Española (Free online Diccionario of the Royal Spanish Academy, in Madrid) 

As authoritative in the Hispanophone world as the OED is, for English speakers.  Offers detailed glosses of searched words, including information on regional dialects, different registers of usage, etymologies, and all possible alternate meanings.  The interface, including glosses, is in Spanish.

General databases useful for research in Spanish fields:

MLA International Bibliography

Broad index to critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore.  Multi-lingual content.  Coverage is from 1963 to the present.

Fuente Académica (TexShare)

Full-text Spanish language index to over 100 scholarly journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Index to selected scholarly works on Latin America. ​