Assembleia da Republica - Parliament of Portugal
http://www.parlamento.pt/
The Parliament of Portugal website is offered in English, French or Portuguese. At present only the full-text of the constitution is available in the English or French versions,although there are plans to offer more resources in these languages in the future. The Portuguese version offers the full-text of the Parliamentary Week Bulletin, a searchable list of MPs and information on parliamentary , the legislative process and plenary meetings.
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Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies 
http://www.iberianstudies.net/
The Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies is based in the UK and provides a forum for academics working in a wide range of disciplines, including politics, economics, geography and cultural studies, and focusing on contemporary Spain and Portugal. The Association runs an annual conference, and publishes a journal, The International Journal of Iberian Studies. The website brings together information about the activities of the Association, along with links to other sites of interest to Iberian scholars.
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Centro de Estudos Judiciários
http://www.cej.mj.pt/cej/home/home.php
Web pages of the Portuguese Centro de Estudos Judiciários, based in Lisbon, and set up under the auspices of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice. The pages offer information on the Centre's constitution, aims and objectives, training objectives, online links to various Portuguese legal sites (courts, ministries and institutes), publications, and admissions. The site give an overview in English of the legal system in Portugal (judiciary, judicature and judicial organisation). The site is mostly in Portuguese.
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Communist Party of Portugal Archive
http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/portugal/i
This site provides access to a small collection of online writings (in English) from the Portuguese Communist Party. They provide insight into its work during 1974 including the overthrow of the government of Marcelo Caetano. The site also contains a biography of leader Alvaro Cunhal, plus links to other Portuguese language websites on Communist Party history in Portugal. It is maintained as part of the Marxists Internet Archive.
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Debates Parlamentares
http://debates.parlamento.pt/
This is an official website maintained by Assembleia da República Portugal. It provides free access to a large collection of full text parliamentary debates and materials relating to Portugal from approximately 1821 onwards. They include materials from the Monarquia Constitucional
1821-1910; 1st República 1910-1926; Estado Novo
1935-1974 and 3rd República 1975 onwards. Documents include parliamentary debates, with details of legislation, documents and agendas. The database may be searched or browsed. materials relate to the upper and lower chamber of the parliament. Full text is currently offered in Portuguese only.
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Diário da República
http://dre.pt/
Web pages of the Diário da República, the Portuguese official gazette. The site offers free access to the full-text of the Diário for the last 15 days. The Diário contains ministerial and presidential Portaria, which are governmental decrees or edicts. Texts are in PDF format. The site throughout is in Portuguese, and help pages are included on how to search by date and series.
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Election Commission of Portugal
http://www.cne.pt/
This is the official website of Comissão Nacional de Eleições, an independent body charged with overseeing the conduct of parliamentary and presidential elections and referendums in Portugal. Its website is offered in English, Portuguese or French. It contains information on the Role of the CNE, plus access to its recent press releases and publications. It includes election results, access to information about the Portuguese electoral system and electoral legislation.
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European Voyages of Discovery: A Tutorial
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/index.html
This site provides access to a multimedia tutorial prepared by the Applied History Research Group of the University of Calgary. It provides an overview of the development of the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the 15th-16th centuries. This includes coverage of the voyages of discovery of Christopher Columbus and the development of the Atlantic slave trade. It includes an examination of the social, cultural, economic and political trends and effects. The site includes text and links to images, related websites and learning materials. The tutorial also has a glossary and bibliography of further reading.
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Hispanic exploration in America: Library of Congress primary source set
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_hispanic_kit.php
This site was created by the Library of Congress as part of its primary source sets for teachers and classroom use. It provides free access to a fascinating collection of online primary resources and associated lesson plans and classroom activities relating to the history of the discovery, exploration and conquest of America by European Spanish speakers. Most materials cover the history of the 15-17th centuries. They include maps, prints and images of documents. These include coverage of the colonisation of North America by Spanish and Portuguese explorers such as Columbus and Pizarro. Copyright information is displayed on the website.
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Iberian Studies in SALALM (ISiS)
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/ISiS/
ISiS is an academic organisation based in the USA (at Brown University) which identifies, collects, organizes, provides access to, and preserves information resources from and about the Iberian Peninsula. The website has full information about its activities, which include developing bibliographic resources, outreach, attendance at conferences and listing online resources for Iberian studies. There is a useful listing of research centres in Spain and Portugal.
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Iberian Studies Web
http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wess/iber/
An invaluable source of scholarly online information for Spain, Portugal and Andorra. This is run by Marianne Siegmund and Richard Hacken at Brigham Young University, USA. They aim to list quality links, rather than a huge list of everything. You can find search engines, gateways, dictionaries, newspapers and subject resources. A What's New list is available.
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Instituto da Agua (INAG)
http://www.inag.pt
The website of the Portuguese Water Institute (INAG), which is responsible for the management of national hydrological resources, including water quality, catchment and coastal management. The website includes details of the objectives and structure of INAG. A copy of the national water strategy can be downloaded from the site in PDF (Adobe Acrobat reader required for use). The site also holds the National Water Resources Database (SNIRH) which offers useful data on water resources in Portugal. The site is written in Portuguese, with some of the information in the SNIRH database available in English.
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Instituto de Conservaçao da Natureza (ICN)
http://portal.icnb.pt/ICNPortal/VEN2007/
The website of Instituto de Conservaçao da Natureza (ICN), which is responsible for the conservation of nature and the management of protected areas in Portugal. The site details the organisation and structure of ICN and provides information on each of the country's protected areas, including details of flora, fauna and geology. There are also details of conservation projects, international activities and publications. The site is written in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
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Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/14613190.html
This journal is published with the support of the Association for the Study of Southern Europe and the Balkans (ASSEB). "..the journal addresses, in a historically and theoretically informed way, the complex geo-political and geo-economic issues facing the Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Near East in the light of global developments and, in particular, European integration." There are three issues per year, and a subscription is needed for full-text access.
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Materials for the history of elections and parliament in Portugal, 1820-1926
http://purl.pt/5854
This website is maintained by the National Library of Portugal. It provides free access to a digital library of information about Portuguese elections and parliamentary history during the period 1820-1926. This includes a chronology of key events; election results, laws and data plus the full text of a number of important digitised documents. The latter include: constitutions; manifestos; rules of procedure; and images of ballot papers, political cartoons and leaflets. Most text is offered in English or Portuguese.
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Ministério da Justiça (Portugal) - Bases Jurídico-Documentais
http://www.dgsi.pt/
Web page from the Portuguese Ministry of Justice, offering several databases of Portuguese case law. Details of decisions and agreements are available from the Office of the Attorney General, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court, the Courts of Lisbon and Oporto, and the Constitutional Court. The texts and presentation throughout are in Portuguese. Users can search the databases by free text, by search terms, or by record field, or scroll down the default display of case summaries. The page also offers selected bibliographic data from Portuguese law libraries.
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Ministry of Education, Portugal
http://www.min-edu.pt/
The official government website for the Portuguese Ministry of Education includes discussion forums on educational matters, full explanation of the different departments and their responsibilities within the ministry, information concerning the government funded educational
institutions and their work, an introduction of the work of the different regional educational bodies, and explanation of the national educational policies.
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Nationalism and the Colonial Imprint: The Stamps of Portugal and Lusophone Africa and Asia
http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2003/Igor%20Cusack.pdf
This site provides access to the full-text of a conference paper by Igor Cusack which was delivered at the UK Political Studies Association annual conference, University of Leicester 15-17 April 2003. It examines the way in which images on postal stamps issued by Portugal and colonies of the Portuguese empire were used to define and transmit the dominant ideology of imperialism, colonialism and nationalism. Reference is also made to the ways in which images of women on stamps reinforce the patriarchy. Users should note that the paper is in PDF and therefore requires access to an Adobe Acrobat Reader for use.
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Parlamento Europeu Gabinete em Portugal
http://www.parleurop.pt
This is the official website of the European Parliament Information office for Portugal. It provides access to information for the public about the function of the European Parliament, its current activities and relationship with Portugal. This includes coverage of recent and forthcoming European Parliament Elections in Portugal and Portuguese representation in the chamber. The site includes recent press releases, documents and information sheets. There are also links to Portuguese websites about the EU. Users should note that information is largely in Portuguese.
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PORT: postgraduate online research training
http://port.igrs.sas.ac.uk/
PORT: postgraduate online research training is a series of free online research tutorials and guides designed for postgraduate (Masters and PhD students) studying Romance and Germanic languages and cultures. It is maintained by staff of the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University of London and would be most useful for students of French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish; Czech and Italian studies. It also includes some general guidance on preparing research proposals, writing disserations and preparing CVs which would be of value to all postgraduates. The language sections include guides to key websites, directories of leading UK and overseas research institute, libraries and publications.
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Portal del Governo Portugal
http://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/GC17/Pages/Inicio.aspx
This is the main portal to websites of the Portuguese government. It is offered in English and Portuguese, providing access to the latest official press releases, links to factual information about Portugal and a directory of Portuguese government websites. All aspects of the domestic and foreign policy of Portugal are covered. Key areas include: the Portuguese budget and economy, social policy and national programmes. Users should note that some information is offered in Portuguese only.
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Portugal's National Institute of Statistics
http://www.ine.pt/
Portugal's National Institute of Statistics is the official government site of that country covering general statistical data. The site is available in both Portuguese and English.
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Portuguese Communist Party
http://www.pcp.pt/english/
This is the official website of the Portuguese Communist Party, an independent political party formed at the end of the first world war. The site is mainly in Portuguese but there is an English section which gives details of the party's history, programme and constitution. There are also a number of speeches, statements and press releases, dating back to 1995, which may be viewed in text format. The Portuguese section of the site also contains details of all of the party's main publications.
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Portuguese Studies Review
http://www.trentu.ca/admin/publications/psr/
PSR is "a peer reviewed journal devoted to promoting interdisciplinary scholarly study of the countries, regions, and communities that share, build on, or are transforming a Portuguese or Brazilian legacy." It covers various disciplines, with an emphasis on history, geography, economics, political science, international relations, sociology, policy studies, anthropology, ethnography and folklore, archaeology and cultural studies. A free sample copy can be viewed, as can contents lists. A subscription is needed for full access. Articles can be submitted in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish.
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Presidência da República Portuguesa
http://www.presidencia.pt/
This is the official website of the President of the Republic of Portugal. It provides information on the history, function and constitutional powers of the president. Details are also provided about the activities of the current incumbent. These include a biography, photos, and access to recent notices and speeches on a range of political issues. The website is offered in English and Portuguese.
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