Modern Languages

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Informé
Informé provides full-text access to 140 popular Spanish-language magazines. However, all the annotations are also in English to assist the user. There is also a Spanish thesaurus.

JSTOR is a collection of over 900 full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR contains complete backfiles for each journal with a moving window that averages around 5 years (current issues are not available). JSTOR offers close to 70 journals that focus on language and literature.

Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre
The Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre is similar to Multimedia Encyclopedia as a general encyclopedia. However, Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre is in Spanish. Other features include a bibliography for each entry, images, and web links to other resources.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) offers over 4 million words, phrases and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese. Also features native speaker audio, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, notes on life and culture, guidance on grammar and idiomatic usage, and extensive links to other sites for further research.

This database lets the user search over 100 Oxford University Press reference books at the same time. Oxford Reference contains close to 20 bilingual dictionaries.

Project Muse is a collection of over 300 full-text scholarly journals. The coverage in Muse is current (five to ten years). Muse contains close to 15 journals that focus on language. Muse has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings.

  WorldCat
Using the FirstSearch interface, WorldCat is a global network of libraries that unite their collections in one master catalog.   WorldCat is searchable using simple keywords, just like you do at your favorite Web search sites. An advanced search helps you limit results to specific authors, subjects, formats, and dates.