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Research Guide: Foreign Languages and Literature

  • Multi-Disciplinary Databases

    Early English Books Online - EEBO
    EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 (more info)
    International Medieval Bibliography
    An interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 300-1500 A.D. (more info)
    JSTOR
    Use the advanced search function to search within the folklore discipline.   (more info)
    Oxford Reference Online
    Electronic version of Oxford reference across a broad range of topics. Full-text. (more info)
    Project Muse
    A unique collaboration between libraries and the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, providing 100% full-text, online access to over 400 titles from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals and nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. Browse by discipline and select folklore under social sciences (more info)

  • Spanish Studies

    Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
    Hundreds of links to Spanish literary sites, libraries, texts, digital projects, and more. In Spanish.
    Dialnet
    Dialnet provides access to contemporary scholarly publishing in Spain and Latin America, with tables of contents of over 3,000 humanities, social sciences and science journals. Coverage includes citations for 1.2 million documents, abstracts for many of these, and full text for some 100,000.
    Diccionario Espasa literatura espanola
    A single volume resource that serves as a bio-bibliography of Spanish writers, with pictures.
    Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
    Covers important writers, topics and works in Latin American literature, including survey articles on individual countries.
    Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater
    Organized alphabetically by country, each section has an introductory essay and bibliography before leading into information about writers and their works.
    Iberian Studies Web
    From the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Links to scholarly resources in Iberian studies (Spain, Portugal, and Andorra). Links are carefully chosen for the quality of information provided.
    Ibero-American Electronic Text Series
    A digital collection from the University of Wisconsin that includes full-text classics from Spain (Medieval, Golden Age, 19th century), Latin America (Colonial, 19th and 20th century), and critical studies.
    LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
    One of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet. (more info)

  • French Studies

    Le Grand Robert
    Includes 100,000 words and 325,000 quotations. Each entry includes pronunciation, etymology, historical uses, register, regionalities, and numerous examples. (more info)
    Le Petit Robert
    Includes 60,000 terms, 40,000 quotations, and 16,000 sound files. A smaller, leaner version of Grand Robert. (more info)
    Dictionnaire des litteratures de langue francaise
    These volumes feature extensive bibliographies for most entries, an index of works, winners of major literary prizes up to 1993, and a chronology of life and works for selected authors.
    Dictionnaire egoiste de la litterature francaise
    A witty and learned compendium of information on French literature that brings together famous and unknown writers, classic works and works that could be read more frequently, fictional characters, and ideas. It is a literary dictionary quite unlike any other.
    Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature
    Contains a concise feminist history of French Literaure, an encyclopedia, a general bibliography and a chronology of french women writers.
    French Studies Web
    From the Western European Studies of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Annotated links to scholarly web resources. Geographic coverage: France, and the francophone regions in Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, North America, and the Caribbean.
    Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
    From the University of Tennessee, this metasite has links on books and literature; art, music, film, and general culture; history of France and the French-speaking world; virtual Francophone tourism; the French language; press, radio, TV, and telephone; education in French-speaking schools; and French across the curriculum and in everyday life.
    Gallica
    From the Bibliotheque Nationale in France. Search engine provides access to over 100,000 fully digitized volumes (full text!) and 300,000 digitized images. Concentration is on the 19th century.

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