Languages
Iona University Libraries Research Guide on Languages
Databases
The databases listed are some of the most popular used by students researching for their Language courses.
Additional databases may be found on the A-Z Database page.
Depending on your topic, you may want to explore other resources using the tabs on the left side of the guide.
Remember, you can always Contact a librarian for help!
- Duke University Press Journals Online This link opens in a new windowArticles from American Literature, French Historical Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, Modern Language Quarterly, Philosophical Review, and South Atlantic Quarterly.
- Informe Académico This link opens in a new windowThis Spanish interface provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America.
- Literature & Language In Video This link opens in a new windowLiterature & Language combines a variety of linguistic, cultural, and literary traditions. Areas of focus include France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Japan, and China and the videos include interviews, biographies, and surveys of regional literature and literary periods,
- Testaments to the Holocaust (in Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new windowThis collection of documents from the Wiener Library in London, contains documentary evidence of Nazi oppression during WWII. Items include written eyewitness accounts, photographs, postcards and a unique collection of Nazi propaganda publications. 75% of the content is written in German.
- Linguistics Database This link opens in a new windowThis database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
- CountryWatch This link opens in a new windowReports on political, business, demographic, cultural, and environmental information and statistics on countries around the world. Also includes daily news coverage by country, comparable country data sets and regional maps.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowEbooks, pamphlets, essays, broadsides published in the UK during the 18th century.
- MLA International Bibliography via EBSCO This link opens in a new windowA subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics dating back to 1925 and containing 2.2 million+ citations from 4,400+ periodicals and 1,000+ book publishers.
- Seventeenth-Century News This link opens in a new windowAn official organ of the Milton Society of America and Milton Section of the Modern Language Association; SCN publishes commissioned scholarly reviews covering scholarship in all fields of seventeenth-century studies -- history, art history, the history of science, English, continental and American literature, music, and philosophy.
- Britannica Escolar Primaria This link opens in a new windowA knowledge-building resource for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. Primaria is for elementary-aged students.
- Britannica Escolar Secundaria This link opens in a new windowKnowledge-building resource for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. Secundaria is for grades 6 through 8.
- International Newsstream This link opens in a new windowProvides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites.
- EBSCO (all collections) This link opens in a new windowArticles and ebooks covering multidisciplinary subjects from all Ebsco databases.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowArticles from journals and newspapers covering all subject areas. Includes dissertations, working papers from OECD, company reports, and country profiles.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Journal coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year.
- SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new windowSAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present.
- eBook Collection on EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowReference books, scholarly monographs, novels, manuals, etc. available in ebook format.
- Directory of Open Access eBooks This link opens in a new windowPortal to discover peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. Provided by the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Foundation.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new windowEbook versions of encyclopedias and reference works covering most subjects, as well as a collection of classic literature and criticisms.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowKanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform that provides access to 26,000 films from 800 production companies. Its focus is on high-quality, educational content. Award-winning documentaries and feature films from producers to include the Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, Strand New Day Films, PBS, The Great Courses, California Newsreel and Shout Factory are all included in the library.
- Literature & Language In Video This link opens in a new windowLiterature & Language combines a variety of linguistic, cultural, and literary traditions. Areas of focus include France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Japan, and China and the videos include interviews, biographies, and surveys of regional literature and literary periods,
- Diversity in Video This link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, interviews, biographies, performances, and lectures which cover issues facing underrepresented, indigenous, and immigrant communities around the world.
- Academic Video Online Premium This link opens in a new windowVideos covering Arts, Business, Criminal Justice, Diversity Studies, Education, Gender & Sexuality, Health, History, Literature, Psychology and Sciences. Contains video content from 60 Minutes /CBS, PBS, BBC, NBC, Insight Media, etc.
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