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Foreign Languages & Literature Research Guide Foreign Lang. & Lit. Librarian: Elin O'Hara Citation Help MLA: APA: Foreign Languages & Literature Reference Books Oxford Hachette French Dictionary Ref. PC2640 .G684 2001 Using French Synonyms Ref. PC2591 .B37 1993 Dictionnaire Québécois Français Ref. PC3643 .M45 1999 Guide to French Literature Ref. PQ41 .L48 1992 Guide de la Littérature Québécoise Ref. PQ3901 .F67 1988 Oxford Spanish Dictionary Ref. PC4640 .O94 2003 NTC's Dictionary of Latin American Spanish Ref. PC4822 .O65 1997 Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature Ref. PQ7081 .A1 E56 1997 Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature Ref. PQ6006 .O95 Collins German Dictionary Ref. PF3640 .C68 1993 Dictionary of German Synonyms Ref. PF3591 .F37 1971 Oxford Companion to German Literature Ref. PT41 .G3 1997 Reference Books Available Online Business French Dictionary (via CREDOReference database) Business Spanish Dictionary (via CREDOReference database) Business German Dictionary (via CREDOReference database) Finding Foreign Language Books The Feinberg Library Catalog can lead you to books published in other languages. First, click the Advanced Search tab. Then, in the Language field (the third box down), click the drop-down arrow. Now you can limit your search to one of 8 languages including French, German, and Spanish. The search will only retrieve books in the language you have selected. Back in the search box at the top of the screen, you can type a specific title or an author such as: La Symphonie Pastorale Saint-Exupéry Hijos del Aire Doktor Faustus Gabriel García Márquez Goethe If our library doesn't have what you want, go to WorldCat to search a worldwide library catalog of over 50 million books. Our new ILLiad system lets you borrow anything you find in WorldCat. Your request is delivered to you usually within 2 weeks for free! Finding Journal and Magazine Articles Try these Foreign Language databases to find articles on subjects related to Foreign Languages & Literature. You can also go to the subject database menu on the library homepage and click on Foreign Languages. Informé: Una coleccióne revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. Latinamerica Press: Biweekly journal of information and analysis about events across Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on human rights (political, economic, social and cultural) within the region. Articles are written by correspondents based in the area they cover (available in English or Spanish). MLA Bibliography: Massive bibliography from the Modern Language Association. Project Muse: 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering many fields in the humanities and social sciences. Lexis-Nexis Academic: Full-text access to non-English language news sources. (Note: To search for foreign language articles you must first click the Guided News Search tab at the top. Then, in the Step One box select Non-English Language News. Next, in the Step Two box select the language of your choice.) Top Foreign Languages & Literature Web Sites BBC World News in 43 Languages! Spanish: El Cuentacuentos (Children's stories in Spanish) LANIC (Univ. of Texas' searchable directory of web pages on all aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean) Historias Paralelas: España, Estados Unidos y la Frontera Americana (English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries) French: National Library and Archive of Quebec (Thanks to Marc-André Gosselin for recommending this page!) Narbonne Médiathèque (Media Library) Narbonne Bibliothèque Virtuelle (32 digitized books) French Ministry of Foreign Affairs La France en Amérique (bilingual digital library exploring the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century) Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France (French government's governing agency on the French language) ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle (Online works of French literature including Hugo and Molière) Gallica: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Digitized texts through the French National Library) Voilà (French search engine) German: der Spiegel (German daily newspaper) Goethe Institut (promotes German culture abroad) der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Digitale Bibliothek (Bavarian State Library's digitized incunabula and historical resources) Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament) Abacho (German search engine) This page created
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