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Subjects:Arts, French and Francophone Studies, Hispanic Literatures and Culture, Humanities, Italian Studies, Language Studies, Latin American and Caribbean, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

What's What

Journal Articles are found online through our licensed Databases or directly through our eJournals.

Databases are found by title or subject in the following lists:

Library Subject Guides are a good place to start looking for information. Each of the over 80 guides lists resources that are the best for a given subject.

Databases A-Z list is good if you know the name of the database you want to use.

eJournals A-Z list is good if you want to jump directly into a journal you want to use. Especially good if you have a citation and are trying to find a specific, known article.

Online Dictionaries

Oxford Dictionaries Online
Current; Oxford Dictionaries Online offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Oxford Dictionaries Online includes access to a vast range of materials that offer authoritative support for learners, students, and language users at every level. Other materials include hundreds of downloadable letters, grammar notes, verb tables, cultural information, and more.
Oxford English Dictionary
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The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition by the year 2010. Draft material from the revision programme will also be published online, representing the latest progress towards the new edition. More revised and new entries will be added to the online Dictionary every quarter.

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Oxford Reference
Current; the core collection of Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works published by the Oxford University Press into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers all of the above, plus added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, to enhance the coverage already provided by the Core Collection.
CREDO Reference
Consult the sections on English and Bilingual Dictionaries which offers the popular Collins dictionaries for English, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.