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Search by author, title, or nationality to locate specific information about a given author or work, including birthdates, pseudonyms, lists of works by an author, and a list of reference books in which criticism about that author/work appears. Works indexed here are those published by Gale, such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Something About the Author, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography

An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages

Based on data collected in the 2000 census this site provides maps of languages spoken in the United States by county or zip code.

Basic phrases for travelers in 35 languages

a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources with over 2000 links to information on learning languages, language software, and literature and translation

Free electronic books (in Spanish) from the Dominican Republic

Free language lessons from the Foreign Service Institute for over forty languages.

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.

Primary and secondary source documents related to the scholarship of oral traditions worldwide.

References for articles from professional journals in modern languages and literatures. For 299 of these journal titles, full text is available.

"An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study." The full text of all articles is available.

“Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors.” The full text of all articles is available.

Clase indexes documents published in Latin American and Caribbean journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. Periodica covers journals specializing in science and technology. The database includes more than 450,000 bibliographic citations from 2700 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.

Full-text broad spectrum of information on 1000's of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Includes 27,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 140,500 author biographies, 350 literary journals, 54,000 poems, 14,500 short stories, 8400 classic texts, 4000 author interview and more.

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 contains articles from 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text; hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC; and full-text New York Times content to 1995.

A general-interest academic database which features full text for over 2,300 scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals as well as abstracts and indexing for many additional titles.

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

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.

Spanish-language edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica written for grades K-8.

Spanish language edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica written for high school.