LibGuides: Modern Languages: Specialist resources

Specialist resources for Modern Languages

Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics This link opens in a new window
Includes over 1,100 entries written by an international team of scholars from over 40 countries
Literary Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Global literary reference work with good coverage of canonical literature originally written in English, French, German and Russian, and is extending its coverage of Spanish, Latin and Greek.
Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
Oxford Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
Searchable comprehensive bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Also includes a range of study aids and grammar notes.
Dizionario Etimologico Online
This website provides access to the digitised version of the Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiana of Ottorino Pianigiani, originally published in 1907 and republished several times over the next 100 years

Nexis Advance UK
Text of newspapers from across the world as well as UK national and local newspapers; Company information and reports. Information regarding a particular country can also be found in this database, as well as bibliographies on a range of people.
Der Spiegel This link opens in a new window
Der Spiegel is a weekly German language news magazine. This digital archive spans content from 1947 to date.
Neues Deutschland Archiv
Archiv access is 01/01/1946 - 12/31/1990. Login password required : https://secure-libapps-bham-ac-uk.ezproxye.bham.ac.uk/eJournals/
Zeit Online
Searchable full-text archive of Die Zeit newspaper from 1946 to the present.
La Repubblica
Searchable archive of La Repubblica newspaper, as well as several local Italian newspapers, from 1984 to the present
Russian Central Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The Universal Database of Russian Newspapers (UDB-COM) provides comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia. Official sources (Rossiiskaia gazeta, Krasnaia zvezda, ITAR-TASS), independent media and partisan publications are all represented on this database, thus offering a wide array of opinions and perspectives. Several English-language newspapers including the notable Moscow Times, widely read by the international community in the Russian capital, constitute an important part of the database.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new window
BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service which stores recorded TV and Radio programmes in an archive indefinitely.
British Universities Film and Video Council Databases This link opens in a new window
BUFVC sources databases on dvds, News on Screen, Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching TRILT, Researcher's Guide Online - RGO and Moving Image Gateway.

The Library also holds a substantial collection of feature films, documentaries and televised literary works in a range of languages on DVD. Most of them are shelved in the Media Room on the second floor of the Main Library and arranged by language.