L'Année Philologique is the definitive bibliographic source of scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. This database includes more than 810,000 records, with over 15,000 new records added every year, and indexes more than 1,000 journals. Records include abstracts for articles, reviews for monographs, and lists of content for edited volumes.
The AustKin database and website provides access to kinship terminologies and social category systems from published and archival sources for over 607 Australian Aboriginal languages. Users can search or browse by particular languages or kinship features; or use the interactive map to click on a language.
The Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library is an initiative of Universidad de Alicante and Banco Santander. It promotes the study and dissemination of Spanish and Hispano-American culture.
Cairn.info is a French-language social sciences and humanities portal. Anyone can view the abstracts and plans of the publications free of charge, as well as, in some cases, their full text.
Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students. There are thousands of ebooks available across a wide range of disciplines including law, politics, history, language and literature, mathematics and astronomy with hundreds of new titles added each year.
Brill's Chinese - English Dictionary Online starts off with the Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese. Compiled by Paul W. Kroll and a small group of assisting scholars, it is a practical lexicon of more than 8,000 characters. Arranged alphabetically by Pinyin romanization, this long-awaited tool facilitates reading historical, literary, and religious texts dating from, in the first place, the Warring States period through the Tang dynasty. The dictionary is primarily a zidian字典, not a cidian 詞典, but in addition to single-graph entries includes an abundance oflianmianci 連綿詞 and important compounds, as well as accurate identifications of plants, animals, and assorted technical terms in various fields. In short, an essential tool and the English-language resource of choice for students of pre-Song texts, and far beyond.
DELTAA covers learning and teaching of English as a second language and is produced the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR), Macquarie University.
Comprising some 4,000 articles, the Encyclopedia of the Folk Tale presents the results of almost two centuries of research in the field of folk narrative tradition. Offering a comprehensive survey of all written and oral genres, the encyclopedia discusses types, motifs and themes; explores theories, methods and stylistic issues; and presents various regions, countries, authors, collectors and researchers.
Érudit is the leading provider of Francophone and Canadian peer reviewed journals in North America. The platform gathers in the one place Canadian scholarly and cultural publishers, including the most prestigious French-language Canadian university presses. Rooted in the scholarly Francophone community of North America, they also offer space to research results and cultural documents written in English or published by international researchers.
Érudit is the leading provider of Francophone and Canadian peer reviewed journals in North America. The platform gathers in the one place Canadian scholarly and cultural publishers, including the most prestigious French-language Canadian university presses. Free full text - managed by publisher, holdings subject to change.
This online reference work reconstructs the lexicon for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European. It is a voluminous resource for historical and general linguists. Dictionaries can be cross-searched, with an advance search for each individual dictionary enabling the user to perform more complex research queries. Each entry is accompanied by grammatical info, meaning(s), etymological commentary, reconstructions, cognates and often extensive bibliographical information.
The John Benjamins Publishing Company publishes journals on Linguistics, Psychology, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Translation Studies, Interpreting, Terminology, Lexicography, Organization Studies and Art History. The Library has selected titles only.
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Texts of word-entries whose headword (source) or explanation (target) language is English tell us what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period served by the Short-title, Wing, and ESTC catalogues, from the advent of printing to 1755.
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.
This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
The Macquarie Dictionary Online is constantly updated with new words as they enter the Australian language. This online service gives you access to the latest edition of the Macquarie Dictionary and the latest edition of the Macquarie Thesaurus plus annual updates
MIT CogNet is an online location for the brain and cognitive science community’s scientific research and interchange. MIT CogNet provides access to pre-eminent resources from several fields, such as artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and education. The platform provides an ever-growing electronic collection of relevant books, reference works, journals, conference proceedings, calls for papers and grey literature.
Produced by the Modern Language Association the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. It includes citations to content published in journals, books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites and dissertations. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus.
OpenEdition Journals is a platform for journals in the humanities and social sciences. Founded in 1999 under the name Revues.org, it now hosts more than 490 online publications. OpenEdition is developed by the Center for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo), a public non-profit initiative supported by leading research institutions and whose main mission is the promotion of open access electronic publishing.
Oxford Dictionaries is an extensive, integrated, smart-linked one-stop English language resource. It offers quick-search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with expert guidance on style, usage, grammar, and spelling; plus specialist guides for legal and technical writing. The Library has access to the Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionaries and related tools and resources.
Oxford Dictionaries is an extensive, integrated, smart-linked one-stop English language resource. It offers quick-search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with expert guidance on style, usage, grammar, and spelling; plus specialist guides for legal and technical writing. The Library has access to the Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries and related tools and resources.
Oxford Dictionaries is an extensive, integrated, smart-linked one-stop English language resource. The Library has access to the Unabridged Spanish / English bilingual dictionary, and the Spanish monolingual dictionary.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world
The main goal of the Persée project is to widely disseminate the scientific output of French language specialists in the humanities on the internet. Considered part of France’s heritage, the collections are at the disposal of all, without charge, in an optic of free and non exclusive access and dissemination.
The Peter Lang Academic Publishing Group specializes in the humanities and social sciences, covering the complete publication spectrum from monographs to student textbooks. Disciplines include Art, Economics and Management, Education, English Language and Literature, Film and Performance Studies, German Language and Literature, History, International Law, Linguistics, Media and Communication, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Romance Languages and Literature, Sociology and Theology. The Library has access to all English language titles on a trial basis until December 2020. Download chapters or the entire book as a convenient PDF or read online.
Books on Project MUSE offers peer-reviewed books from over 65 university presses and scholarly publishers. The Library has purchased a selection of titles in these subject areas only: Higher education ; Languages and linguistics. Over 550 humanities and social science books from several distinguished university presses are available as fully open access (OA).
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals published by major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Swiss Electronic Academic Library service (SEALS) is a service of the syndicate of the Swiss University libraries within the scope of the electronic library of Switzerland. Retro digitization of scientific magazines and their supply in the full text on the Internet (about 50 magazines of various fields)
The TLG is both a full-text digital library of Greek literature and a research project at the University of California, Irvine. Its primary goal is to create a comprehensive digital collection that includes all extant works of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era, and to develop search mechanisms that allow scholars and students to search this collection.
Torrossa is Casalini libri's full text platform that offers access to journals from Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese publishers. The Library has access to selected titles only.
