Finding Articles
MLA coverage: 1926 - present - 
The MLA International Bibliography covers world literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Types of materials indexed include journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 worldwide authors from every age and their works in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. Additional in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most studied authors.
The information is provided from
- journal articles
- reference material including:
- Contemporary Authors
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
- Encyclopedia of Literature - over 10,000 entries.
- links to selected web resources
Search the Education database ERIC for articles on linguistics as well as the teaching and learning of languages and literature.
Archive of 15
"Language & Literature" journals as well as journals in "Classical Studies", Latin American Studies and other disciplines. Older volumes have been digitized, starting from the first issues and running up to 3 to 5 years ago;
no current issues are available in JSTOR.
Access to full-text coverage for over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
Includes the full text of the Cambridge Companion reference series, with volumes ranging from the topical (Latin American Novel) to a specific writer (Flaubert).
Information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
A growing database of three kinds of Latin dictionaries:
- dictionaries to assist translation from Latin into modern languages
- dictionaries providing semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words
- historical Latin dictionaries.
Comprised of more than 2800 works of Christian Latin literature from over 860 authors. Currently focused on the patristic and medieval periods, it will eventually encompass works from Antiquity and the early-modern and modern eras.
Dictionaries
Credo Reference -
Language-specific Resources
Multi-language
Web Sites:
A catalog
of the world's 6,700-plus languages, with data on numbers and
locations of speakers.
Learn basic words and phrases for 70
languages; you can also hear them pronounced and take quizzes.
Over 2000 links to language-related Internet resources including
online lessons, dictionaries, literature, software, schools
and translation services.
Assorted links from the University of Wisconsin.
A translation portal
which includes a multi-language dictionary.
Using data from the
2000 United States Census question about languages spoken
in the home, this interactive map allows users to see locations
and numbers of speakers of various languages or language
groups used in the U.S.
A guide
to writing systems.
Origins of English words.
Links to more than 1800 dictionaries in over 250 languages,
as well as Grammars and tutorials for about 100 languages.
Lists Internet resources
for 120 languages.
ASL - American Sign Language
Web Sites:
Learn more about the 4th most-used language
in the U.S.
Uses Quicktime Video to display
thousands of ASL signs. From Michigan State University.
SLOPE -
American Sign Language Poetry Special Edition
French
Newspapers (in LexisNexis Academic® - )
Web Sites:
Electronic texts in the public domain provided by CNAM: Conservertoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris.
A simple 75,000-word bidirectional translator.
A vast site for links on French literature and culture, from Swarthmore College. Entirely in French.
From the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library
A selection of links, focusing on France, for students of French.
The French Internet for Kids contains stories, games, contributions
by young writers, and more.
A commerical site for visitors to the "City of Light". The Paris Calendar and Kiosque portions are updated regularly.
From Lehman College, CUNY, an
extensive, well-organized, well-maintained metasite.
A supersite.
German
Newspapers (in LexisNexis Academic® - )
Web Sites:
A two-way dictionary of words and phrases with 120,000 entries.
A small collection of e-texts from the University of Virginia Library.
Well-organized page of literature and culture links, including German web search engines.
Numerous links provided by the University of Alberta.
Italian
Language
Oxford Paravia Il Dizionario Inglese_italiano, Italiano_inglese [DII]
Dizionario dei Termini Cinematografici: Italiano_inglese, Inglese_italiano
Dizionario dei Verbi Italiani Regolari e Irregolari
Dizionario Etimologico Italiano
Il Nuovo Dizionario Hazon Garzanti: Inglese-Italiano, Italiano-Inglese
Vocabolario della lingua italiana
Literature
Dizionario Enciclopedico della Letteratura Italiana
Enciclopedia Dantesca
Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature
Encyclopedias
Dizionario Enciclopedico Italiano
Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Art
Enciclopedia Cattolica
Newspapers (in LexisNexis® Academic
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Web Sites:
Electronic texts from the Associazione Liber Liber.
A large online collection of old Italian poetry.
Links to research resources.
Daily Italian newspaper on-line.
Overview of grammar, plus exercises and useful expressions.
Japanese
Web Sites:
Includes detailed instructions and technical information about using Japanese with a Web browser.
Lots of interesting-looking links. No date given.
Russian
Web Sites:
From the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
Assorted links for Polish and Russian.
Spanish & Portuguese
Newspapers (in LexisNexis® Academic
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Web Sites:
A project to provide free access to thousands of electronic texts in Spanish.
An ongoing annotated bibliography compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Available in English or Spanish.
Academic web resource from the Institute of Latin American Studies at UT Austin.
A free online tutorial.
Maintained by Carolyn Kotlas, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
From the CLA Language Center, University of Minnesota.
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