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.
Foreign Language for Travelers
Basic phrases for travelers in 35 languages
FSI Language Courses
Free language lessons developed by the Foreign Service Institute for over forty languages.
Foreign Language Videos
Short videos of native speakers of various languages discussing daily life in their countries, culture, and family. These do not have subtitles. Requires Quicktime Player.
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.
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)
Academic OneFile
Full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Content also includes ebooks, images, and videos. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Academic Search Premier
Full text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
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.