This pathfinder includes the most important sources about Spain. The wealth of published books available on this subject exceeds the offerings of the online materials on the World Wide Web. Libraries, and in particular The Library of Congress Online Catalog, offers a wide bibliography of such published works on subjects relating to Spain. One need only search the appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Some of the major aggregators for links to a wide variety of subjects relating to Spain are the following sites:

University of Pittsburgh's WWW Virtual Library: West European Studies

Si, Spain (listed below)

Iberian Studies Web, of WESS

Another site one should especially note is the site prepared by the Law Library of the Library of Congress for legal, political, and general information on their Guide to Law Online (http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/spain.html).

All about Spain (http://www.red2000.com/spain/index.html)
Offers information about Spain, presented by Red2000. Highlights tourism, culture, business, shopping, news, politics, and more. In Spanish, English and German.

Answers.com: Spain (http://www.answers.com/topic/spain)
Provides general information from a variety of sources.

Archivo virtual de la Edad de Plata (http://www.archivovirtual.org)
This site has as its objective to increase knowledge about this amazingly productive and creative period in Spanish intellectual life, including the scientific as well as the literary and artistic, The Silver Age, 1868-1936. It includes access to a virtual catalog of texts and images; information on conferences, publications, and exhibitions.

Country Briefings: Spain (http://www.economist.com/countries/Spain/)
The Economist Newspaper Ltd. presents a country profile and recent articles on Spain. The Economist includes a fact sheet on Spain and information on the country's political and economic outlook, economic data, political forces, political structure, and economic structure. Some material only available through a subscription.

Freedom in the World: Spain (http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&country=7061&year=2006)
Freedom House, a non-profit, non-partisan organization, offers a collection of country reports on human rights as part of the Freedom in the World 2006 survey resource. A report notes political rights and civil liberties within Spain and includes basic social and economic data.

berian Studies Web (http://wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Iberian_Studies_Web)
This quality web site of the Western European Studies Section of ACRL is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Iberian Studies (for Spain, Portugal and Andorra). The resources organized here have undergone a selection and evaluation process. If needed, annotations have been provided augmenting the research value of these resources to scholars.

Languages of Spain (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=ES)
Extensive information and statistics on all the languages spoken in Spain.

LIBRO (http://libro.uca.edu/)
"The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula." Contains the full text of books on Spain from the Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also deals with the whole Iberian Peninsula. Contains search engine for the site.

LYCOS: Spain (http://www.lycos.es/busqueda/)
Spanish language search engine whic provides access to information about the country, society, sports, shopping, music, employment and more diverse subjects dealing with Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.

Search Iberia (http://www.searchiberia.com/)
The Searchiberia directory includes websites related to Spain and Portugal. Search for travel sites, tourist information, holiday rentals or businesses located in the Iberian Peninsula. In English.

Sí, Spain (http://www.sispain.org/)
Presents Si, Spain, an interactive service the promotes the free exchange of information on Spanish current affairs and its historical, linguistic, and cultural development. Notes that the service is provided by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Provides access to information on Spain's geography, population, society, history, language, culture, politics, foreign affairs, economy and trade, infrastructure, education, and health and social services. Highlights information on traveling to Spain and links to other resources in or about Spain. Includes a site search engine.

Spain (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/spain.html)
The Energy Information Administration (EIA), a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy, presents annual energy and energy-related data for Spain, including an energy balance from the World Energy Database. The EIA provides analyses and reports on Spain's energy industries, as well as forecasts on the consumption and capacity of energy resources. The reports and data are available in HTML and Excel spreadsheet formats.

Spain - VisitEurope.com (http://www.visiteurope.com/)
The European Travel Commission highlights travel to Spain as part of VisitEurope.com. The commission presents information about the area, population, languages, tourist attractions, cities and towns, festivals, sports, and cuisine of Spain, as well as providing a map of the country.

Spain: A Country Study (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/cntrystd.es)
Full text of the work originally published: Spain. 2nd ed. 1990. (Area handbook series) (DA pam ; 550-179). Produced by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. Edited by Eric Solsten and Sandra W. Meditz. Research Completed December 1988. The Country Studies series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Includes a bibliography and glossary.

Spain: Country Profil (http://www.worldinformation.com/World/Europe%5FEU/Spain/profile.asp?country=034)
World of Information presents a country profile of Spain. This profile provides information on such topics as the country's history, political structure, population, main languages, media, economy, mining industry, and more. World of Information includes current foreign exchange rates for the Spanish peseta.

Spain: Facts (http://www.worldinfozone.com/facts.php?country=Spain)
WorldInfo Zone, highlights facts about Spain. These facts include details about prehistoric cave paintings, Islamic Spain, the national hero El Cid, Spanish explorers, treasure ships, the region of Catalonia, the Basque region, Gibraltar, and more. Some of the facts feature links to related sites.

The Spanish Directory: Spanish Language Courses in Spain (http://www.europa-pages.co.uk/spain)
Provides "hundreds of school, colleges and universities offering Spanish language tuition in Spain". Contains information on schools and the language exams. The Spanish language course listed in this directory are placed into a geographic region: Northern spain, Madrid, Central Spain, Eastern Spain(& the Balearic Islands), and Southern Spain (& the Canary Islands).

United States Department of State: Background Notes: Spain (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2878.htm)
Provides information on the people of Spain, the country's history, government, political conditions, economy, travel, business, foreign relations and relations with the U.S.

Universia, el Portal de los Universitarios (http://www.universia.net)
This is a gateway to Luso-Hispanic universities created to provide new channels of communication and information within the Hispanic University community. In Spanish with some Portuguese.

YAHOO: Spain (http://es.yahoo.com/)
Includes websites about all areas dealing with Spain, such as art, culture, employment, finnance, astrology, sports and so on. It also provides access to sites only in Spanish and only from Spain. In Spanish.