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Linguistics and Modern Languages: Finding books and journal articles

A library guide to support students studying Linguistics and Modern Languages

Serarching for Resources

The main way to search for library resources such as books, journal articles, DVDs or sound recordings is by using Summon.

 

Reference books, newspapers and more...

Oxford Reference Online

A large collection of reference works including dictionaries and encylopedias pulished by Oxford University Press. It is a good place to start for a definition or general overview on many topics.

ProQuest Ebook Central

Our biggest collection of Electronic books, Ebook Central, lets you search for titles on your subject area, view the full text online and copy and print out extracts.  Ebook Central delivers, with breadth and depth of ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers.

ProQuest International Newsstream

Provides the full text of articles in U.K. daily and Sunday newspapers, including many regional newspaper and some trade publications.

Finding Journal Articles

These resources contain journal articles on linguistics and modern languages and other topics. Most have links to the full text and where this is not available they give you enough information to find the article elswhere.

Summon

As well as using the Summon search box you can also search for journal titles individually. Click on the Journals link on the front page of Summon. You can also browse a list of journal titles for linguistics and modern languages by selecting a subject category.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly sources.

 

Browzine

Browse many of the library's arts and humanities journals on BrowZine's virtual shelves. Easily discover, read and monitor the key journals in your field online or via the app.