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Online resources for the modern languages researcher

Online resources for the modern languages researcher. Shoshannah Holdom shoshannah.holdom@oucs.ox.ac.uk. http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/. Beginning research and locating material. Increasingly, material is available online But how do you find it? Google? There are alternatives!

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Online resources for the modern languages researcher

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  1. Online resources for the modern languages researcher Shoshannah Holdom shoshannah.holdom@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/

  2. Beginning research and locating material • Increasingly, material is available online • But how do you find it? • Google? There are alternatives! • Your institution’s library website • Online bibliographical databases • Intute: Arts and Humanities http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/

  3. What are electronic and Internet resources? • Electronic journals • Bibliographies • Project/Organisation websites • Collections of texts/online libraries • Images banks • Datasets • Multimedia resources • Gateways • And much more…!

  4. Why use Intute? • Issues of trust, quality and research skills • Human beings not robots • Relevance

  5. Scoping your field • Research in progress: check AHRC projects in Intute. • Check http://www.languagesresearch.ac.uk/ • Join discussion lists: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ Lowlands-L http://www.lowlands-l.net/ Francofil http://www.bristol.ac.uk/francofil/ Iberia http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/iberia.html H-LatAm http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~latam/ The Linguist List http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/

  6. Locating secondary material • Check the Modern Languages Association (MLA) bibliography • ZETOC • COPAC • The European Library http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/

  7. Getting to grips with what’s available • Try the Intute Virtual Training Suite for Modern Languages http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/languages • Take a copy of ‘Internet Resources for Modern Languages’

  8. The guided tour: digital libraries Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes http://cervantesvirtual.com/ Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani http://www.classicitaliani.it/ Projeto Vercial http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/programas.htm Sophie http://sophie.byu.edu/ Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

  9. Electronic journals • Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/ JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/ • SciELO http://www.scielo.org/ • Intute: Arts and Humanities e-journals indexhttp://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ejournals.html DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) http://www.doaj.org/ • Espéculo http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/ • Equinoxes http://www.brown.edu/Research/Equinoxes/ • Glossoshttp://www.seelrc.org/glossos/

  10. Gateways Warwick German Studies Web http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/german/resources/ Gateway to Corpus Linguistics on the Internet http://www.corpus-linguistics.info/ The Mexican Film Resource Page http://www.wam.umd.edu/~dwilt/mfb.html Culture.fr http://www.culture.fr/ Internet Guide for Chinese Studies http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ Literature and Culture of Francophone Africa and the Diasporahttp://dl.lib.brown.edu/francophone/

  11. Cultural resources • Magazines, author websites, archives… ClubCultura.com http://www.clubcultura.com/ Eurozine http://www.eurozine.com/ AEIOU: das Österreichische Kulturinformationssystem http://www.aeiou.at/ Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANZA)  http://www.ansa.it/

  12. Project and organisation websites • Offering working papers, conference proceedings, calls, and more… Axial Writing http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/axial/ WISPS http://www.wisps.org.uk/ Society for Pirandello Studies http://www.ucd.ie/pirsoc/ International Bande Dessinée Society http://www.shef.ac.uk/ibds/

  13. Exhibitions and archives • Visual arts and primary documentation accessible online Mexico: from Empire to Revolution http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/mexico/ The Don Quixote Exhibit http://quixote.mse.jhu.edu/ Victor Hugo vu par Rodin http://www.rodinhugo.com/

  14. Literary sites Dante Online http://danteonline.it/ Île en île http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/ The website of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán http://www.vespito.net/mvm/ Ivo Andrić http://www.ivoandric.org.yu/ Letralia http://www.letralia.com/ Barcelona Review http://www.barcelonareview.com/

  15. Language sites • Offering a variety of resources, texts and articles L’ABC de la langue française http://www.languefrancaise.net/ El castellano: la página del idioma español http://www.elcastellano.org/

  16. Linguistics resources Phonetics: the Sounds of Spoken Language http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/ British National Corpus http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ CELEX Lexical Database http://www.kun.nl/celex/ COMPARA http://www.linguateca.pt/COMPARA/

  17. Practical resources PORT: Postgraduate Online Research Training http://port.igrs.sas.ac.uk/ Prospects http://www.prospects.ac.uk/ Jobs.ac.uk http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ HERO http://www.hero.ac.uk/ The UK GRAD Programme http://www.grad.ac.uk/

  18. That’s it! • Thank you for listening. • Any questions?

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