Description:
Now, after more than 50 volumes, Abstracts in Anthropology has evolved into an eclectic overview of the many-faceted realms of anthropology and established itself as an indispensable reference and research tool for the international community of anthropologists. The Journal covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from several hundred periodicals. Man's speech, physiology, artifacts, history, environment, and social relations are described, analyzed, interpreted, and compared within the human and animal realms.
Because the traditional focus of anthropology has changed from Third World societies to subcultures within industrialized nations, the Journal tracks social welfare issues, drug abuse programs, geriatric caregiver issues, and applied anthropology. Physical anthropology is becoming increasingly a sub-area of medical intervention, techniques and ethics of genetic engineering, and societal factors in disease transmission. Archaeologists are focusing on environmental issues, geographical overviews, and ecological factors in prehistoric site selection.
Abstracts in Anthropology is the only comprehensive abstracting journal in the field of anthropology, publishing three thousand abstracts per volume which provide a thorough coverage of anthropological scholarship in all its subfields:
Cultural Anthropology
Physical Anthropology
Archaeology
Linguistics
In addition, Abstracts in Anthropology makes finding information easier by including a cumulative index of author and subject listings in the fourth and final issue of each volume. Coverage:
1970-current
Description:
Contains more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, Academic Complete (formerly Premier) offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Subject areas covered include: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. Updated on a daily basis. Coverage:
Various Dates
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AJOL is the world's largest online collection of African-published, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, providing free hosting for over 380 peer-reviewed journals from 29 African countries, using the internet and open source software. AJOL's partner journals cover the full range of academic disciplines with particularly strong sections on health and agriculture. Access to full-text articles of open access journals is free, while access to other published materials is fee-based; all abstracts, however, are free. Coverage:
Various Dates
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L'Année philologique contains citations and abstracts covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity. Covers ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy from the second millenium BC through the early middle ages (c 500-800 AD). Material comes from over 1500 periodicals, plus essay collections and conference proceedings representing thirty-two years (1969-2000) of L'Année Philologique (volumes 40 to 71). Updated annually. Coverage:
Various Dates
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ABELL contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world. Subject areas covered by ABELL include: English language including syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics and dialectology; English literature including poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory and studies of individual authors; Bibliography including manuscript studies, textual studies and the history of publishing; Traditional culture of the English-speaking world including custom, belief, narrative, song, dance and material culture. ABELL is compiled under the auspices of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) by an international team of editors, contributors and academic advisors. See also the MLA International Bibliography. Coverage:
1920 - Present
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APA PsycInfofrom
American Psychological Association
ON-SITE ONLY
Description:
Contains almost 2 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. Coverage:
1887 to present
Description:
A multi-disciplinary database covering 1,470 of the most important journals in the humanities and arts fields, worldwide. It also picks up, selectively, articles from the Social Sciences Index and the Sciences Citation Index insofar as they have humanities content. You can do keyword searches (all foreign citations are translated into English), citation searches (telling you where a given source has been cited by a subsequent journal article), and related record searches (telling you which articles have footnotes in common with your starting-point article). The database also enables you to zero in immediately on state-of-the-art literature review articles. Coverage:
1975 to present
Description:
German language index of (primarily) German language periodicals covering all aspects of German language and literature. Includes books, pamphlets, articles, dissertations, reviews, etc. Basic arrangement is by literary period, with author and subject indexes. Indexes approximately 300 international (but primarily German) periodicals. Coverage:
1985 to present
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Contains nearly 825,000 entries covering books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on all subjects (but primarily in the humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, South, and Southeast Asia. Citations are drawn not only from the 100 most important Western-language journals in Asian studies, but also from thousands of other journals. The Bibliography also contains hundreds of thousands of citations to monographs published between 1971 and 1991, and to edited volumes published since 1971. Coverage:
1971 to present
Description:
The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (400-1500) providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. Provides access to the following databases: International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)Online - a comprehensive bibliography of over 300,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location. Also includes miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide; Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale - a comprehensive bibliography of monographs worldwide currently containing 40,000 titles. Drawn from the Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale and initially focused on the Central Middle Ages but gradual expansion to the Early and Late Middle Ages is planned. Compiled by the Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale at the Université de Poitiers; International Directory of Medievalists - Contains the names and addresses of specialists from over 70 different countries with their fields of study. It was compiled with the collaboration of the work undertaken by the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes Médiévales (F.I.D.E.M.) under the auspices of UNESCO. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The 'CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature' database aims to facilitate access to Greek literature for speakers of English by providing references to all English-language translations of modern Greek literature and to all studies in English that relate to modern Greek literature from the twelfth century AD to the present. A special, unique feature of the CENSUS is that it fully indexes the contents of large collective volumes such as anthologies or journal issues (in greater detail than in any other available source). Personal names are also indexed by their function (e.g., literary author, translator, editor, etc.). Both features thus facilitate detailed searches (both simple and complex) and precise retrieval.
The online presence of the CENSUS makes the entire collection of references fully searchable. Furthermore, besides connecting the variant spellings of the literary authors' names in English with their Greek name, linked data connect the CENSUS's collection with other standard databases and lead the reader directly to online sources for immediate reading (where copyright permits). Coverage:
Various Dates
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Century Journals Project contains the full text for over 200,000 articles from the most important academic journals published in China. Part of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databases. Users have access to the following journal series: A - Physics/Astronomy/Mathematics; B - Chemistry/Metallurgy; C - Industrial Technology & Engineering; F - Literature/History/Philolophy; G - Politics/Military Affairs/Law; H - Education/Social Sciences; I - Electronics/Information Science; J - Economy & Management. Coverage:
1915 to present
Description:
Full text resource covering the fields of French and francophone language, literature and the humanities in Europe, Africa, Indian Ocean, Americas, and Asia. Sources available include:
Dictionnaires et Encyclopédies:
Grand Corpus des dictionnaires (du 9e au 20e siècle)
Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du 9e au 15e siècle
La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Dictionnaire historique de l'ancien langage français depuis son origine jusqu'au siècle de Louis XIV
Edmond Huguet, Dictionnaire de la langue française du 16e siècle Dictionnaires des 16e et 17e siècles
Corpus des dictionnaires de l'Académie française (du 17e au 20e siècle)
L'Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des connoissances humaines (Encyclopédie d'Yverdon)
Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du 19e siècle
Littérature Française et Francophon:e
Grand Corpus des littératures française et francophone, du Moyen Âge au 20e siècle
Corpus de la littérature médiévale des origines au 15e siècle
Corpus de la littérature narrative du Moyen Âge au 20e siècle
Corpus de la première littérature francophone d'Afrique noire, écrite et orale, des origines aux Indépendances (fin 18e siècle-1960)
Corpus de la première littérature francophone de l'Océan Indien, écrite et orale, des origines aux Indépendances (18e siècle-1960)
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The Communications and Mass Media Collection provides current and accurate information in full-text from journals and magazines focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more. Coverage:
1980-current
Description:NewsNet is a newsmagazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). It features articles (on particular issues in the field of Russian, Central European, and Eurasian studies, on the teaching of disciplines related to Slavic studies, etc.) and news and information columns including a listing of upcoming conferences and conventions, news on Slavic collections and archives at various academic and institutional libraries as well as new Web sites covering Slavic studies, recent or upcoming publications written, edited, or translated by AAASS members, etc. NewsNet offers scholars conducting large-scale research or surveys an opportunity to announce their project to other Slavic scholars and institutions and request input or information.
Social Sciences A quarterly journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences offers in English translation the most significant of publications from nearly 30 scholarly periodicals of Russia.
Vestnik Evropy: The authors and work of Vestnik Evropy played a significant role in the history of Russian literature and social thought. Its impact is interrelated with European culture. This primary source for Slavic scholars is now available online with Old Russian and Modern orthography side by side. A major influence in the outlook of Russian intellectuals. When originally published the aim of the journal was to provide Russian intellectuals – those that considered themselves “European Russians” – with cultural, historical, political, and literary thought from Europe. Founded in 1802 by the Russian historian and educator, Nikolai Karamzin, Vestnik Evropy became a major influence in the development of a European outlook in Russia. One of the first Russian literary and political journals, it is well known among scholars and researchers of Russian history.
Voprosy literatury: Voprosy literatury was founded in 1957, soon after the 20th Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the era known as the “thaw” in USSR cultural life. It soon evolved into a major discussion platform for literary critics and scholars. Famous for publishing selections from Russian writers prohibited during the Soviet period, it continues to this day and enjoys much-deserved popularity among Russian intelligentsia. Coverage:
Various Dates
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This collection of Middle English texts was assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive, as well as works created specifically for the Corpus by the Humanities Text Initiative (HTI). The HTI intends to develop the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (CME) into an extensive and reliable collection of Middle English electronic texts, either by converting the texts themselves or by negotiating access to other collections produced to specified high standards of accuracy. In 2006 new texts were added to the Corpus, many of them among the largest and most significant monuments of Middle English, including the Wycliffite Bible, both versions of Higden's Polychronicon, Cursor Mundi, both versions of Guy of Warwick, the chronicles of Robert Mannyng and Robert of Gloucester, two versions of Mandeville's travels, Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes, the A, B, and C texts of Piers Plowman, the Pricke of Conscience, the Ormulum, and numerous saints' legends, including the Laud MS of the South English Legendary. The new texts also include the complete Chaucer Society '6-text' edition of the Canterbury Tales. The Corpus stands at 146 volumes. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Includes the full text of over 515 reference sources from over 50 publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations. Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information. Users can choose to search all reference works or specific subjects. Coverage:
Various Dates
Description:
DARE is different from other dictionaries in that it does not include words that are commonly used throughout the United States, but rather focuses on the regional aspects of our language, documenting words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one place to another. Widely viewed as the American equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary, DARE representing the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam’s housecat to Zydeco—has long been consulted by a wide range of scholars and lovers of language and regional nuance. This digital version transforms the dictionary into an interactive, multimedia tool that will greatly benefit both scholarly inquiry and general intellectual curiosity. Coverage:
Various Dates
Users are encouraged to create their own accounts (via the “Sign up” link at the top of each page on the site) so as to utilize digital DARE’s full capabilities.
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The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) is a corpus of Sanskrit texts with resolved sandhis and full morphological and lexical analysis. The DCS is designed for text-historical research in Sanskrit linguistics and philology. Users can search for lexical units (words) and their collocations in a corpus of about 4,600,000 manually tagged words in 650,000 text lines. The DCS offers two main entry points for research. 1) Words can be retrieved from the dictionary through a simple query or a dictionary page. For each lexical unit contained in the corpus, DCS provides the complete set of occurrences and a statistical evaluation based on historical principles. 2) The text interface shows all contained texts along with their interlinear lexical and morphological analysis. Coverage:
Various dates
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Digital Library of Lao Manuscriptsfrom
National Library of Laos, University of Passau, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz
FREE ACCESS
Description:
The Digital Library of Lao manuscripts is a database containing over 12,000 searchable digitized manuscripts from Laos. These manuscripts have been collected from over 800 monasteries across Laos. The languages include Lao, Northern Thai (Lan Na), Tai Lue, Tai Neua, Tai Dam, Thai, Khmer and Pali. The manuscriptes are categorized into 19 different categories including Folk Tales, Secular History, Astrology, Laws, Medicine & Magic, and various Buddhist subjects. Coverage:
16th to 20th century
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The Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts is a database containing over 6,000 searchable digitized manuscripts from northern Thailand. The collection includes possibly the oldest dated Pali manuscript in Southeast Asia still extant, copied in 1471. The languages include Northern Thai (Lan Na), Thai, Lao, Tai Lue, Tai Khuen, Shan, Burmese and Pali. The manuscripts are categorized into 19 different categories including Folk Tales, Seculary History, Law, Astrology, Secular Literary Work and various Buddhist subjects. Coverage:
15th to 20th century
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E-Korean Studies is an integrated and comprehensive service whose objective is to make electronic resources in the field of Korean studies accessible worldwide. It offers various contents and sources in all academic disciplines of Korean Studies. Offerings cover the arts and humanites, social sciences, sciences, medical sciences, physical education, and various sources of content, including monographs, periodicals and newspapers, dissertations and research reports, law, classical literature and video lectures.
Click on the following links to access individual databases within e-Korean Studies:
e-Article A database of e-articles is the information system that researchers can easily search and download academic materials of academic societies based on diverse search methods. [Search in Korean, Chinese scripts, & English]
Scholar A full-text academic journal service established by Kyobo Book Centre which is the top bookstore in Korea and Hakjisa which is a well-known publisher in the field of psychology and education. Scholar is covering all academic fields and supplying 3rd largest volume, 400,000 articles [Interface: Korean and English; Search in Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese & Global IME]
KoreaScholar Full-text database of academic journals published in South Korea. It reflects the constantly changing trend in the global academic community while providing HTML (Full text/JATS XML) and DOI services for various academic societies. [Search in both Korean and English]
Korean Social-Science Data Center (KSDC DB) A full-text academic journal service in all subject fields, especially psychology, pedagogy, education, and social welfare studies. Full-text use, print and download of PDFs is available, as well as access through mobile devices. [Search in Korean, Chinese scripts, & English]
KoreasA2Z - Korean Studies DB Contents and The Digital Culture Art Course A knowledge content resource for Korean studies, including full-text online databases of primary sources and classics organized by subjects or format. Works such as Samguk sagi (Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms) and the Digital Encyclopedia of National Culture (EncyKorea) are included in KoreaA2Z. Includes Translation, comments, original text and scanned files. [Korean only]
Korean History & Culture Research Database A full-text collection of excavation reports of historical sites in Korea operated by national and university museums and private research institutions since 1910. It contains research reports, catalogs, and maps related to Korean geography, history, folklore, and architecture. Easy search categorized into periods, areas, characteristics, and keywords. Also rare books published during Japanese Colonial Period by Japanese Government General are included. [Search in Korean, Chinese scripts]
History Culture Series A multi-media content database dedicated to Korean history and culture. Developed for general users, as well as professionals and museum curators. It allows the users to store the contents easily and quickly or use materials in the classroom to understand Korean history and culture outside of Korea. Abundant photos and images, as well as functions to save the photos and images. [Search in Korean, Chinese scripts, & English]
LawnB’s Legal Information Service A portal service for all law-related issues, indexing 50 categories such as statues, precedents, commentaries, administrative documents and statistics, academic articles, law journals, law related news and so on. [Search in Korean only]
LawnB ONJU is an online legal commentary. It explains laws of different fields and the contents are immediately updated. The commentary also explains how laws are interpreted to legal professionals and the general public. It also focuses on in-demand laws, such as the Building Act, the Privacy Act, the Law on Monopoly Regulation, and Fair Trade to provide useful legal information more efficiently. [Korean only]
Coverage:
Various Dates
Click on links of individual databases to access each resources separately.
Description:
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. EEBO ranges from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Subjects covered include: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, politics and government, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, mathematics, science, and women's studies. The following EEBO collections are available: Early English Books I (Pollard and Redgrave, STC I), 1473-1640; Early English Books II (Wing, STC II), 1641-1700; Thomason Tracts,1640-1661; and Early English Books Tract Supplement.
Early English Books I: From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, Early English Books I, 1473-1640, contains nearly all of the 26,500 titles listed in A.W. Pollard and G.R. Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue and its revised edition. The collection comprehensively documents the English Renaissance, an era that witnessed the rebirth of classical humanism, the broadening of the known world, and the rapid spread of printing and education. Textual scholars are able to compare variations in the early quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays with the renowned First Folio edition of 1623, and the great Renaissance authors can be studied in light of lesser-known literature from the era. The original, printed version of royal statutes and proclamations, military, religious, legal, Parliamentary, and other public documents are reproduced in the collection. As are almanacs and calendars, broadsides and romances, plus popular pamphlets such as The Trail of Witchcraft, showing the true and righte method of discovery (1616).
Early English Books II: Spanning the tumultuous years of the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration, Early English Books II, 1641-1700, comprises the circa 90,000 entries compiled by the bibliographer Donald Wing in his Short-title Catalogue of Books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. This era saw the rise of a mercantile class, the first English settlements in North America, and the development of secular philosophy and empirical science. While the notable features of this collection are the same as those of EEBO I, EEBO II contains larger bodies of titles in certain subject areas such as the arts, the sciences, popular culture, and women's studies. Historians of the arts can access critical discourses on art and literature, such as: Edward Filmer's Defense of Dramatick Poetry (1698), Pierre Monier's History of Painting (1699), Henry Purcell's A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord (1696). For physical scientists, the collection includes books by Boyle, Newton, and Galileo, as well as popular scientific tracts such as Nicholas Culpeper's The English Physician (1652). And students of women's studies find useful the editions of works by Aphra Behn, Anne Killigrew, and Margaret Cavendish.
Thomason Tracts: The Thomason Tracts Collection brings together nearly everything that was published in England and on the Continent from 1640 to 1660. The year 1640 in England marked the beginning of a period of tumult and change. Both the practical and the philosophical bases of the British monarchy were being challenged by determined and powerful enemies while those who defended the king shared an absolute conviction in his Divine Right to rule. The differences between these factions led to a bitter civil war and a series of experimental governments that kept England in turmoil until 1660. The London publisher and bookseller George Thomason knew he was living through important historical times and set about methodically collecting copies of virtually everything that was being published, from single broadsides to substantial dissertations. The Thomason Tracts include more than 22,000 individual items representing about 80 percent of what was published during these two decades. Inevitably, the collection contains a great deal of political material and features: speeches made in Parliament; tracts on the religious issues that reinforced political divisions; gossip from or about the court; sermons and political diatribes; and news reports that provide detailed accounts of battles, negotiations, and political machinations. The collection includes almost 400 periodicals, most of them unavailable from other sources. These items complement the titles held in EEBO II (Wing, STC II).
Tract Supplement: The Early English Books Tract Supplement provides an exceptional perspective on many aspects of 16th- and 17th-century British life. Over the course of many years, small items such as broadsides and pamphlets were often collected into "scrapbooks," or tract volumes, classified by various criteria such as dates or topics. These tract volumes, primarily from the British Library, allow readers to see the material in the same order as they would when leafing through the original volume. EEBO provides comprehensive coverage of Unit 1 of the Tract Supplement. Coverage of Unit 2, the final part of this collection, is also now substantially complete in EEBO. Facsimile document images showing the few outstanding items from Unit 2 will be added to EEBO as part of future updates of the service. Scholars and researchers in history, religion, literature, music, poetry, gender studies, and other fields will benefit from the unique perspective provided by this collection. Documents in the collection include: proclamations, acts of the English, Scottish and Irish Parliaments, and other royal declarations; letters, including the correspondence of Sir John Harrington; the printed epistles of several Roundhead generals to Parliament; petitions, cases, and other public documents relating to a single issue, such as the volume on the Trading Companies, which chronicles the emerging slave trade from the point of view of the Africa Company; a large collection of ballads; Church of England pamphlets and sermons; pamphlets concerning the birth and growth of the Quaker sect; almanacs; auction catalogs, including prints and drawings; and mathematical, medical, and other scientific and practical treatises.
Description:
Education Full Text covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. Provides indexing (1983- ), abstracting (1994- ), and select full text (1996- ) from over 550 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. Includes selected series and supplements and book review citations. Coverage:
1983 to present
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The Encyclopædia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences. Coverage:
Various Dates
Description:
The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to the present day. It features advanced search options, as well as extensive cross-references and full-text search functionality using the Hebrew character set. With over 850 entries and approximately 400 contributing scholars, the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online is the authoritative reference work for students and researchers in the fields of Hebrew linguistics, general linguistics, Biblical studies, Hebrew and Jewish literature, and related fields. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics offers the most comprehensive reference work on Slavic languages ever published, with some 400 articles. It provides authoritative treatment of all important aspects of the Slavic language family from its Indo-European origins to the present day, as well as consideration of the interaction of Slavic with other languages. Coverage:
Various Dates
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A comprehensive database of journal and non-journal education literature. Includes the journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Covers conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Major areas of coverage: education issues of all types; counseling and personnel services, information resources; languages and linguistics; and tests, measurement, and evaluation. Coverage:
1966 to present
Description:Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages. Since 1951, Ethnologue has been an active research project involving hundreds of linguists and other researchers around the world. It is widely regarded to be the most comprehensive source of information of its kind.
The information in Ethnologue will be valuable to anyone with an interest in cross-cultural communication, bilingualism, literacy rates, language planning and language policy, language development, language relationships, endangered languages, writing systems and to all with a general curiosity about languages.
Language descriptions in Ethnologue are:
organized by world area, UN region, and country;
indicate region of use within countries;
list alternate language and dialect names;
specify the three-letter code from ISO 639-3;
estimate speaker populations;
give genetic classification of the language;
describe language use and viability;
identify writing scripts used;
cite availability of literature and other products of language development.
About the 19th edition. Over 19,000 updates have been made to the Ethnologue database since the 18th edition was released one year ago. As a result, the descriptions of 5,438 languages contain at least one update. These include both substantive changes to the data, as well as stylistic ones. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The digitization project of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France focusing on the cultural history of France and French speaking areas throughout the world. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Collections include: La France en Amérique / France in America; Bibliothèque de Voltaire à la Bibliothèque nationale de Russie; Découvrez l'Afrique à travers les récits des voyageurs; Découvrez la France à travers les récits des voyageurs; Proust; "Sociétés savantes"; Utopie; Le Rêve d'Emile Zola dans tous ses états; Trésors et raretés : une Anthologie virtuelle des collections; Voyages en Italie. Coverage:
Various Dates
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This website is an online resource for Gandhari, a northwestern Middle Indo-Aryan language closely related to Sanskrit and Pali attested in use from the third century BCE to the fifth century CE. Gandhari.org provides resources for those engaged in the study of the Gandhari language, including a dictionary, bibliography, and catalog of Gandhari texts around the world. Coverage:
various dates
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The Google Books Ngram Viewer allows researchers to search a word or phrase in a corpus of books in British or American English, Chinese (simplified), French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, and Spanish over selected years, in some cases from 1800 into the 21st century. For example, one can search on a specific word to see if it has increased or decreased in popularity over time. Coverage:
19th to 21st Centuries
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GRETIL is the Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages, which also contains related Indological materials from Central and Southeast Asia. GRETIL is a resource platform providing standardized machine-readable texts in Indian languages that have been contributed by various individuals and institutions. GRETIL was originally intended as a cumulative register of the numerous download sites for electronic texts but has shifted its focus to securing and documenting the efforts to encode these texts. It does so by providing the contributions of varying sources and quality in an appropriately normalized way, with the minimum requirement being that full text search for each language is possible across the whole corpus without any additional conversion. In particular, this resource provides online access to many e-texts in Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Old Javanese, and Tibetan. Coverage:
varoius dates
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Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. AD 1000 to the present day. The main focus of the dictionary is the coverage of over 500 years of slang from c. 1500 onwards.
The printed version of the dictionary received the Dartmouth Medal for outstanding works of reference from the American Library Association in 2012; fellow recipients include the Dictionary of American Regional English, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. It has been hailed by the American New York Times as ‘the pièce de résistance of English slang studies’ and by the British Sunday Times as ‘a stupendous achievement, in range, meticulous scholarship, and not least entertainment value’.
On this website the dictionary is now available in updated online form for the first time, complete with advanced search tools enabling search by definition and history, and an expanded bibliography of slang sources from the early modern period to the present day. Since the print edition, nearly 60,000 quotations have been added, supporting 5,000 new senses in 2,500 new entries and sub-entries, of which around half are new slang terms from the last five years. Coverage:
1993 to Present
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Indexes all aspects of the humanities and social sciences from over 1,200 North American and European periodicals. Over 1 million articles over and 240,000 book reviews are represented, primarily from scholarly journals, including some from scientific journals published in the 1950’s. For citations from 1984 to the present, see Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text. Coverage:
1907 to 1984
The simultaneous user limit for this resource may result in temporary delays.
Description:
Humanities Full Text covers over 465 sources in archaeology, food, philosophy, art, journalism, religion, classics, linguistics, space, film, music, world history, folklore, performing arts, and world literature. Coverage:
1984 to present
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Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere (including the Arabs in Spain). Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. Subject coverage includes: Accounting; Archaeology; Arts Bibliography & Scholarship; Economics; Education; Middle East Geography & History; Islam; Law; Literature; Natural & Applied Sciences; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Social Sciences; Theology; Travel; and Zoology. Updated annually. Coverage:
1906 to present
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The Iter Gateway is a not-for-profit partnership dedicated to the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development and distribution of online resources. Featured resources consist of the Iter Bibliography, an open URL- and Zotero-enabled bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), including citations for books and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues), journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies), and dissertation abstracts; and Iter Italicum, a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world, produced by Paul Oskar Krisetller. Other resources include:
International Directory of Scholars: a comprehensive directory of contact information, and information on the research and teaching careers of scholars around the world;
Milton: A Bibliography (1624-1799): a listing of all manuscripts and editions of Milton's works, all studies and critical statements of Milton's life and works, and allusions, quotations, and significant imitations;
Bibliography of English Women Writers (1500-1640): a list of scholarship about more than 700 recovered women writers and located texts, including among them familiar figures, and identifying many hitherto unknown writers;
French Renaissance Paleography: over 100 carefully selected French manuscripts written between 1300 and 1700, with tools for deciphering them and learning aout their social, cutural, and institutional settings;
Humanism for Sale: an examination of the ways books were written designed, printed, and marketed for schools in Renaissance Italy;
Romeo and Juliet: Searchable Database for Prompt Books: which contains information from about 170 prompt books for productions ranging from the 17th century to the 1980s;
Baptisteria Sacra: an index offering detailed descriptions of fonts from the early Christian period to the 17th century;
Medici Archive Project: which currently describes 200 volumes of documents in the Medici Granducal Archive (Archivio Mediceo del Principato), with document records for approximately 10,000 letters and biographical records for approximately 11,000 people;
Aestimatio: a journal that provides critical, timely assessments of books published in the history of what was called science from antiquity up to the early modern period in cultures ranging from Spain to India, and from Africa to northern Europe;
Electronic Capito Project: which provides the text of letters from and to Wolfgang Capito which are either unpublished or have been published before 1850 and are therefore difficult to access.
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The École Français D'Extrême-Orient Khmer Manuscript collection is a database containing over 1,000 searchable digitized manuscripts from Cambodia. These manuscripts have been collected from over 1,000 monasteries across Cambodia. The languages include Khmer and Pali. The manuscripts are categorized into 25 different categories including law, astronomy, histories, novels, magic, philosophy, proverbs and many Buddhist subjects. Coverage:
17th to 20th century
KISS is a searchable database of full-text articles in about 6,000 journals published by 1,200 Korean academic societies and research centers / institutions, covering all subject areas. Includes KSI e-book, a full-text database of almost 9,000 e-books on philosophy, religion, social science, natural science, engineering, arts, linguistics, literature, and history. [search in Korean and Japanese]
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The Latinum Electronicum is an Open Access interactive Latin course which teaches the basic knowledge of Latin. The course was developed within the framework of the “Virtual Campus Switzerland” in three languages – German, French, and Italian. In 23 lessons, students can learn Latin and also prepare for the qualification in Latin exam. Special features of the Latinum Electronicum inlcude:
Introduction to Latin grammar through the use of authentic and original Latin sentences;
More than 400 exercises based on approx. 25 different types of exercises with varying degrees of interaction and difficulty;
Comprehensive exercises for practicing verb and noun forms;
Flash animation for facilitating the understanding of complex syntactic phenomena and translation techniques;
Comprehensive vocabulary trainer, vocabulary cards, and vocabulary lists;
Lesson texts including both literal and free translations;
A complete grammar, printable in PDF format, as well as conjugation and declension tables;
Printable vocabulary cards;
Keyword search for looking up vocabulary words;
Glossary containing information on the culture and historical background of the people and events of Antiquity and the Middle Ages;
Audio recordings of vocabulary words, examples sentences from the grammar, and selected texts;
Introduction to the pronunciation and meter of the Latin language;
Three languages of instruction: German, French and Italian.
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The Linguistic Bibliography Online is a comprehensive research tool published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. It provides over 385,000 bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics and is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field.
The Linguistic Bibliography Online covers all disciplines of theoretical linguistics, both general and language specific. Material is included concerning all geographical areas. Particular attention is given to endangered and extinct languages as well as lesser known Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. These latter areas are not usually covered by other bibliographies. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With annually over 20,000 records added, arranged according to a state-of-the-art system of subject and language keywords, the Linguistic Bibliography remains the standard reference work for every scholar of linguistics. The online edition contains all entries of the printed volumes as of 1993 and new records are added on a monthly basis.
Main categories:
General Reference Works
General Linguistics
Indo-European Languages
Asianic and Mediterranean Languages
Basque and Ancient Languages of the Iberian Peninsula
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This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
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Logeion (literally, a place for words; in particular, a speaker's platform, or an archive) was developed after the example of dvlf.uchicago.edu, to provide simultaneous lookup of entries in the many reference works that make up the Perseus Classical collection. To enhance this site as both a research and a pedagogical tool, information based on corpus data has been added in the right side bar, as well as references to chapters in standard textbooks. The open access corpus of medieval Greek and Latin language resources and dictionairies that Logeion searches is continually being updated.
Learning to use Logeion to look up words is straightforward. Start typing in (the first few letters of) the headword (or lemma) for the entry (transliteration is an option for Greek words) and the word wheel will spin to the right destination. Enter a minimum of three characters, and the system will attempt to suggest entries in the neighborhood. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The Middle East and Africa Database is a bibliographic and full-text database that provides area coverage (especially for political development, social development, foreign policy, economic development, investment, oil and petrochemicals, trade and technological industries) for the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Arabs, Iranians, Turks and Africans worldwide, including in Europe and North and South America. The database is designed to provide easy bibliographic and full-text access to journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, press releases, books, manuals, magazines, and ephemera. As well, it is constantly expanded and enriched, both with additional records from journals that have been abstracted for many years, but also from new journals, new sources and new books, whether by abstracts or full-text. Coverage:
Various Dates
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MECAS is a bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Over 12,000 records of recently published & "grey" literature are added annually. Coverage includes the following fields: political affairs & law; international relations; economic affairs; cultural heritage; arts & humanities; society & social welfare; ethnic diversity & anthropology; significant religious events & movements; recent history (1900 - present) & archaeology. Hundreds of links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web are included. Coverage:
1900 & earlier to present
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Key subject areas covered in the complete collection include art and architecture, biomedical sciences, business and finance, computer science, cognitive science, design, education, environment, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, neuroscience, new media, philosophy, and social sciences. Coverage:
various dates
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The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. Coverage:
Various Dates
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MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, including film studies. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international, and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text. See also the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Coverage:
1926 to present
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