Subject Guide - Language (400s)

Reference  *  Books  *  Serials  *  Databases  *  Related Lion Links pages  *  Websites

This is a general research guide to the library's resources on the topic of language.

Specific language links may be found below:

Spanish Language and Literature

Language Reading List.doc

Reference

Click here for a live search in the St. Mark's Library catalog. Most books on the topic of language may be browsed in the 400s in the Reference collection.

Books

Click here for a live search in the St. Mark's Library catalog. Most books on the topic of language may be browsed in the 400s in the circulating collection. 

Serials

Databases

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 Centerâ„¢ and the multidisciplinary Academic Search â„¢ Premier. The Literary Reference Centerâ„¢ 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.  

Internet Resources

The following websites offer information on classical and modern languages. 

• Abzu: Guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
• Academic Info Classical Studies: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
• Alliance for Lifelong Learning > Academic Directories > Classics
• American Classical League(U. Michigan)
• Ancient World Web (U. Virginia)
• Bibliotheca Classica Selecta (U. St. Louis [Brussels])
• Cambridge External Gateway to Classics Resources on the Web
• Classical and Medieval History - An Annotated List of Reference Websites (Library of Congress)
• Classics at Oxford
• Classical Resources(U. Texas-Austin)
• Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World (U. Kentucky)
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation (UC Irvine)

• French in Action - On-demand "video instructional series in French for college and high school classrooms and adult learners" produced in 1987 by Yale University and WGBH Boston with Wellesley College. Features about 50 French lessons, covering greetings, numbers, descriptions, conversation topics, food and drink, travel and  transportation, and other topics. Requires (free) registration. (LII)

• Greek Language & Linguistics
• Intute
• KIRKE: Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie aus Erlangen (U. Erlangen - Nürnberg)

• Parlez-Vous? - Links to information about French speaking countries, music, food and culture.

• Perseus Project (Tufts U.)
• Project Athinai (Kronoskaf, the Virtual Time Machine)
• Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell'Antichità Classica (U. Bologna)
• Scholarly Links: Classical, Medieval, and General (U. Penn)
• Vergil Project (U. Penn)
• VRoma: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics
• WESSWeb: Classics Studies Web
• Yahoo! Classics
  • Gateways e Guide
  • Ovid im WWW