Subject guide: Portuguese

Resources for Portuguese studies

Resources for finding books and articles

  • DART-Europe
    Find full-text dissertations from a number of universities in Europe.
  • Linguistics Collection
    Database collection for literature on linguistics and language-related disciplines. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts and Linguistics Database.
  • PORBASE 
    National catalogue providing information on titles held by Portuguese libraries.
  • RCAAP
    Database containing scholarly publications from Portuguese institutions.

Resources for finding specific books and articles

  • Google Scholar
    Useful for finding specific journal articles, dissertations, and academic books in full text.
  • Summon
    Search service for searching in the university library's collection. Useful for finding specific ebooks, printed books, and journal articles in full text.

Resources for finding student theses

  • DiVA
    Find student theses submitted at several Swedish universities.
  • Essays.se
    Find student theses in full text submitted at Swedish universities.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

  • Britannica Academic 
    Consists of Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster (dictionary and thesaurus), among other things.

More resources 

  • Fnac Portugal
    Online store for buying books, music and DVD, among other things.
  • SAPO
    Portuguese search engine.
  • Wook
    Portuguese online bookstore.
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