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WWW Gateways for and to Portugal

The Web site, Culture.fr, from France's Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication is a vast gateway and information service for all aspects of French culture. This is an essential resource for anyone working on contemporary French studies. It offers a remarkable number of annotated links to genuinely quality resources in the fields of: archeology; architecture; modern art; cinema; history; French language; literature; and the performing arts. Links are also provided to: national libraries; museums; archives; and study and research resources. The site also acts a news service for cultural events and the arts in France: users will find up-to-date, detailed information on a variety of events, exhibitions, and performances across the country, as well as articles reviewing events in depth

The website, 'Le XIXe siècle électronique' is a gateway to electronic resources useful for the study of 19th century French literature. The site's author, Andrew Oliver, has compiled and offered brief evaluations for a selection of sites related to: Balzac; Stendhal; Hugo; Flaubert; Baudelaire; Rimbaud; Zola; and Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, Madame de Charrière and Madame de Staël.

The Chinese Language Information Page is an online gateway to Internet resources aimed at students and teachers of Mandarin Chinese. The website is made up of several sections containing annotated links, which address: Chinese educational resources; viewing and listening to Chinese online; scholarly and linguistic resources on Chinese; East Asian librarianship; and Chinese language courses (featuring links to university departments in the US, Australia and Asia)

Anglistik Guide is a subject gateway to scholarly relevant Internet resources on Anglo-American language and literature. The guide is part of the Literature section in the Virtual Library of Anglo-American Culture (VLib-AAC

RASCAL is an electronic gateway to research resources in Ireland. You can use this web-site to search and browse information about the wide range of research and special collections held in libraries, museums and archives across the region. The Directory consists of comprehensive descriptions of collections available to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences recording details of content, location, format, and access. Links to institutions' on-line catalogues and other digital resources are provided where appropriate

China/Asia On Demand (CAOD)/Asia Document Delivery is an effective knowledge gateway to research materials from China in particular and Asia in general. It provides a powerful Web-based research, access and electronic information solution with unique searching and discovery capabilities. Documents can be retrieved in their original format including graphs and illustrations in a pay per-view manner or with a flat fee subscription. A wide range of journals (9,638 titles) (as of January 2011) can be accessed online. Millions of theses and dissertations, patents and conference proceeding papers could be requested with just a click away.

The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (NZEPC) has been established to promote New Zealand poets and poetry, and to provide an electronic gateway to poetry resources in the Pacific region

The EFG Portal gives you quick and easy access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials. Targeted at scientific researchers and the interested public alike, the EFG offers a look at and behind the scenes of filmmaking in Europe from the early days until today. The EFG facilitates online access to historical documents and leads you directly to the archives that hold the originals.

This is the website of a research project based at Lancaster University and St Martin's College, Lancaster, which explores the fifteenth-century York Mystery Plays and their various social, intellectual, religious, and theatrical contexts using multimedia technology.