Research Guide for Languages

• Finding Articles
• Finding Foreign Language News Articles
• Finding Authoritative Web Sites
• Finding Books, Videos, DVDs, & CDs
• Finding Online Books

FINDING ARTICLES

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Humanities Index
This is an index of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals. (April 1974 to September 2000). Located on the first floor with the reference books.

DATABASES

The EBSCO Education and Literature collections listed below include the full text of journals on language and linguistics.

EBSCO Education & ERIC

EBSCO's Education searches three databases, Professional Development Collection ™, ERIC ®, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Most of the citations in these databases link to the full text of the article. You can search individual databases by going to EBSCO Database Selection . Additional search features are provided when you limit your search to a single database

Literature

EBSCO's Literature searches Literary Reference Center™ and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. The Literary Reference Center™ contains the full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies, 350 literary journals, 535,000 book reviews, 54,000 classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories, 4,000 author interviews, 8,400 classic texts and much more.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a non-profit organization that archives scanned images of journal issues and pages. Alvernia College has access to the Arts & Sciences I, II and IV Collections. These collections include many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences, and a limited number of journals in the sciences.

FINDING FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEWS ARTICLES

LexisNexis

• Deutsche Presse
• Toute La Presse - Français
• Italian Language News Sources
• Spanish Language News Combined

FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES

Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library

The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Foreign Language Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Resources page of the Library Web site.

Alvernia Library Research Page

The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.

Brodart DartClix

The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.

FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS

NetLibrary eBooks

A collection of over 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia College computer network.

WorldCat 62 million records

This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)

Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.

Alvernia's Catalog

Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.

The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in the Alvernia Library collection. Most works on languages are located in the 400 section.

Examples of books with background information and reference sources are listed below:

Dictionary of Languages R403 D137

The English Language R420 C957 2003

Collins German Dictionary R433.21 C712

Heath's Standard French and English Dictionary R443.2 M288

Garzanti Comprehensive Italian-English English-Italian Dictionary R453.2 H431

The American Heritage Spanish Dictionary R463.21 A512 2001

A Latin Dictionary R473.2 L673

Greek Dictionary R483 C614

Spanish-English, English-Spanish Medical Dictionary R610.3 M141 2005

FINDING ONLINE BOOKS

NetLibrary eBooks

A collection of 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia College computer network.

Examples of language ebooks include:

• 2000 Bilingual Phrases: Level 4 (2000)
• CliffsStudySolver Spanish 1 (2003)
• Countdown to Spanish: Learn to Communicate in 24 Hours (2004)

• Begin French for the Utterly Confused (2003)
• Better Reading French: A Reader and Guide to Improving Your Understanding Written French (2003)
• French Verb Drills (2004)

• German (2000)
• The German Language and the Real World: Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Pragmatic Perspectives On Contemporary German (1998)
• Intensifiers in English and German: A Comparison (2000)

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Italian (2001)
• Language and Society in a Changing Italy (2001)
  
  
  
  
  

Updated: April 18, 2008

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