Library Guides/ English Language and Culture

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This guide covers a set of high-quality sources of information for English language and culture. This is the starting point for your research.

Drama Online - RSC Live Collection This link opens in a new window
Features 26 videos of Shakespeare's plays performed live by the Royal Shakespeare Company
Linguistic Bibliography Online This link opens in a new window
Bibliography for linguistics focusing on the lesser known and extinct languages
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
Bibliography containing references and abstracts on language and linguistics
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new window
Online bibliography on language and literature
Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
Authoritative poetry, drama and fiction texts from Classical Antiquity and all periods of English literature.

The Year's Work in English Studies This link opens in a new window
Narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and literature
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Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics This link opens in a new window
The prime online encyclopedia on language and language behavior
Ethnologue : Languages of the world This link opens in a new window
Resource on the more than 7100 languages spoken in the world.
Literary Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Middle English Compendium This link opens in a new window
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Dictionaries and introductory reference works in all fields (extended edition)
Sage eReference This link opens in a new window

Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED) This link opens in a new window
Historical dictionary of the English language
Van Dale Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
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Bilingual dictionaries from and into Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, and the 'Dikke Van Dale' (Dutch dictionary).

Online dictionaries of Van Dale can also be accessed via smartphone or tablet, by means of the Van Dale App! Once the app has been downloaded, you can open the app and click on the Surfspot link on the bottom of the log in screen to log in with your UG account.
Partridge Slang Online This link opens in a new window
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Cambridge journals online This link opens in a new window
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) This link opens in a new window
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Oxford University Press journals This link opens in a new window

All journals published by Oxford University Press in full text.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window

All SAGE journals in full text.
Taylor and Francis Journals This link opens in a new window

New York Review of Books This link opens in a new window
Full text from volume I issue I (February 1963)

Drama Online - RSC Live Collection This link opens in a new window
Films of live productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company

Subjects: Faculty of Arts