MaxGuides: Global Languages and Literatures: Home

Welcome

This guide is intended to help you get started finding resources for researching languages, and linguistics.

Maxwell Library Home Page

Selected Web Resources

Free, internet-based resources

Ethnologue
An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 7,000+ known living languages
MLA Language Map
Based on data collected in the 2000 census this site provides maps of languages spoken in the United States by county or zip code.
FSI Language Courses
Free language lessons developed by the Foreign Service Institute for over forty languages.
World Oral Literature Project
Primary and secondary source documents related to the scholarship of oral traditions worldwide.
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning
Links to resources for teaching a variety of languages and language assessment.
LangMedia: Resources for World Languages
Teaching and learning materials, and cultural information for many of the lesser studied languages.
DW: Learn German
German lessons from Deutsch Welle for all levels of learners.
Arabic Collections Online
National Diet Library (Japan)
English language page of Japan's national library.

Online databases

These databases require a BSU login.

MLA International Bibliography
References for articles from professional journals in modern languages and literatures. For 299 of these journal titles, full text is available.
JSTOR
A full-image collection of retrospective issues from scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage includes mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, Asian studies, economics, history, literature, population studies, and sociology (from the Arts & Sciences I Collection)
Gale Academic OneFile
The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Gale's InterLink technology intelligently connects contextually-relevant results from your library's eBook collection on GVRL within articles in a user's search results. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.
Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference service features full-text, aggregated content from more than 260 reference titles from 55 publishers, with nearly three million entries covering every major subject. Content includes encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and subject-specific works. Additional key features include customizable, dynamic data tables; tens of thousands of images; audio pronunciation files; over 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features.
Films on Demand
Searchable database of digitized films. Click on "Humanities and Social Sciences" to see a list of films by language, on the bottom, right-side of the screen.