LIBRARY GUIDE TO Modern Languages

Lexicool
"Primarily a directory of "all" the online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. " You can search for general or specialized dictionaries in the language of your choice. Also contains cool gadgets like the Lexibar, a small toolbar which gives rapid access to special characters not always available on your keyboard. The site is run by an international team of linguists and IT specialists.

Oxford English Dictionary
The definitive historical dictionary of the English language. This dictionary covers English words from 1150 CE to present, and provides etymology and quotations illustrating usage.

Cambridge Companions
Offers introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods.

Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)
Provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series.

Google Scholar
You can check the availability of article full text if you use our link to Google Scholar, which will ask you to log in with your OU NetID. How to export to RefWorks  

Humanities Source
Includes articles, book reviews, and interviews dealing with literature, movies, journalism, dance, and communication from 1984 to the present.  Thanks to MeL.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Historical survey of the most important critics and theorists, critical schools, and movements in literary theory and criticism. Includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries, including the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

JSTOR
Includes over 200 journals in language and literature with full text access. No coverage of the most recent issues.

MLA International Bibliography
A subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.

Project MUSE
Good selection of journals in literature. Generally covers recent issues all the way to the present.
 

LLBA - Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
LLBA contains abstracts and indexes to 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. Coverage: 1973 - current. 

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, the history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955. How to export to RefWorks


Google Scholar

JSTOR and Project MUSE
Include journals in most disciplines of history and the social sciences, such as anthropology, folklore and political science. Also journals in Asian, Latin American, Middle East and Slavic studies.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. See their guide to language and literature materials.

Europeana
Digital library of European museums, archives, libraries and audio-visual collections

Ask a Librarian
Ask a research question by phone, chat, email, or in person at the research help desk.

Research Consultation
Sign up online for an individual session with a librarian to get help with your research.

Library OneSearch
Use the catalog to find books, videos, recordings, and goverment documents we have at the library.

MelCat
A statewide catalog of many of Michigan's libraries. It allows you to request books at another library be sent to Kresge Library for you.

Other sources

Japan Knowledge Plus
Includes some full-text Japanese periodicals.

ICON: links to online collections of historical newspapers from European countries

 

Arabic
Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish

Refworks allows you to create a personal database of references and automatically generate formatted bibliographies for your projects.