Biblioteca Nacional Digital Brazil (National Digital Library):

This source provides online access to varied documentation including primary sources and articles on several topics relevant tp the study of Brazilian history, politics, society, and culture. The Biblioteca Nacional Digital facilitates access to articles about historical publications and some original article transcriptions, digitized archival material (including photographs, manuscripts, official documents, newspapers, plates, maps, and others); online exhibits on varied subject areas, including photographs and articles; and dossiers regarding special collections held at the National Library of Brazil, or developed in partnership with relevant institutions.

From all these resources available at the National Digital Library, we recommend the Digital Newspapers and Periodicals Library (Hemeroteca Digital), which provides online access to magazines and newspapers published as early as 1821.

Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (Online Catalog / National Library of Brazil):

The online catalog of the National Library of Brazil lists maps, images (including photographs, caricatures, visual art, engravings and others), manuscripts, music (scores and audio recordings), books, rare books, newspapers and periodicals (paper and microfilm), and reference books held at the National Library located at Rio de Janeiro.

Additional information regarding special collections not included at the online catalog but also held by the Library  is available at the Library's website here. Special collections also include maps, music, iconography, manuscripts, reference works, rare works and periodicals. Searches can be filtered and customized by varied categories.

University of São Paulo Library Catalog:

The University of São Paulo (USP) is the largest public university in Brazil and one of the most prestigious ones in the country as well as in Latin America. The library's main catalog, which enables simple and advanced searches, can be customized by several categories including searching in local catalogs of specialized libraries. Additional sites for integrated search in the USP integrated library system are listed here.

A large variety of content is accessible online, including maps, rare books, and articles.

From the special collections available at the USP Library, we recommend taking a look at the Theses and Dissertations catalog, which contains 56,921 items. The theses collection includes materials in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. These materials' date range is 1942- present and are available online for download in PDF format.