Library Guides: World Languages & Literatures: Getting Started

World language Materials Searching Tips

When searching for books and articles in other languages, there are some useful tips that will make finding these materials easier:

Type your search terms in the language of interest.
- Diacritics may or may not be detected in your search. Type the search word without the diacritic. Example: use "El Nino" instead of "El Niño."
OR you can perform a keyword search, then limit your results by language.
Some articles may have an abstract or title in English but the article itself may be in another language. Look at the body of the article to be sure of the language.

JSTOR
Core academic journals in mathematics, humanities and social sciences disciplines, beginning with their first volumes (sometimes dating back to the 1800s). Issues from the most recent 3-5 years are not available electronically through JSTOR; however, they may be available through their publishers or other vendors.
Note: Funded by the Beckwith Memorial Endowment.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
MLA International Bibliography
Over one million citations to books, scholarly journals, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies from languages, literatures, linguistics and folklore. 1926 - present.
WorldCat.org
A comprehensive catalog with more than a billion bibliographic records from libraries around the world. Use WorldCat.org to do an extensive search of published material, to verify citations, or to identify other libraries that own an item.
Note: The University Libraries no longer has access to the WorldCat Discovery interface as of June 30, 2020.

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