E-Resources for Modern Languages

Search across multiple audio and video collections from Alexander Street Press, including American History in Video; Audio Drama; Classical Music in Video; Classical Scores Library; Counseling & Therapy in Video; Dance in Video; Ethnographic Video Online; New World Cinema; Opera in Video; Smithsonian Global Sound; Theatre in Video.

Formerly known as American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES), this interdisciplinary database covers Slavic and East European studies in regards to the social sciences and humanities. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada. This database replaces the print edition of ABSEES and is now exclusively online.

Provides access to an electronic literary index that covers literary output from 1892-1962, in addition to current records. This database lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published around the world.

American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) covers classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing from the 13th through the 20th century. Some full text is available.

Provides access to facsimile images of letters, poems, plays, novels, and other literary works of British authors over seven centuries.

Over 500,000 reviews and related information about children's literature.

Provides access to documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and technology. Materials indexed include essays, book reviews, books, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes from nearly 2,600 scholarly journals in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 140,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement. All titles are full text digital facsimiles from the Early English Books microfilm collection. Highlights of the collection include works by Shakespeare, Malory, Erasmus, Newton, and Galileo.

Provides access to high-resolution facsimile images of rare printed sources from the origin of printing through the seventeenth century. Early European Books contains significant works by Aristotle, Copernicus, Descartes, Erasmus, Kepler, Luther and Spinoza, alongside ephemeral works such as pamphlets and almanacs. The works encompass all the major fields of human endeavour, including science, medicine, philosophy, theology, literature, history, political science, travel, and exploration.

This resource provides information profiles for every living language and country on earth. It includes maps of where each language is spoken as well as statistics for a given country or region and guides on language endangerment.

Bibliographic database covering the subjects of film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. This database indexes periodicals and technical publications. Some full text is available.

Provides complete bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Includes topics on current political, economic, and social issues. Some full text is available.

An electronic version of Iter Italicum, originally published in print by Paul Oskar Kristeller between 1963 and 1992. Considered the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely cataloged Renaissance humanistic manuscripts in libraries and collections all over the world.

Provides fully searchable and browsable English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, including Encyclopedia Nipponica, Dictionary of Synonyms in Japanese, Encyclopedia of Japan, Yuhikaku Dictionary of Psychology, Shogakukan-Oxford English-Japanese Learner's Thesaurus, Great Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature, articles published in the weekly magazine Ekonomisuto, the Toyo Bunko, a database of pre-modern Japanese works, the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, and other resources.

Research tool connecting primary texts with journal articles and book chapters on JSTOR. It includes key works of British literature, the King James Bible, and all Shakespeare plays and sonnets.

The Library of Latin Texts is the world's leading database for Latin texts with works from the ancient period to the 20th century. Series A consists of Latin texts from the beginning of Latin literature through the Second Vatican Council while series B provides access to Latin texts of all periods and genres. This resource includes the complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis.

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This database covers all aspects of the study of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics, including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Victorian manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. This collection includes digitized works of the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Alfred Tennyson and more. Contents include unpublished poems, working notebooks, and drawings.

Provides access to important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. Works of epic and lyric poetry, drama, history, philosophy, medicine, religion, mathematics, and more are included in this resource.

Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database provides information on over 5,500 journals, including editorial contact, frequency, subscription prices, and submission guidelines.