Foreign Languages & Literature  

The European Library is a free service that offers access to the resources of the 48 national libraries of Europe in 20 languages. Europeana offers access to many of Europe's cultural collections.

Romanization tables to transliterate titles, names, and words from langauges not written in the Roman alphabet.

BYKI -- when you get to the site, register with BYKI; that enables the system to track your language-learning progress. You can download the BYKI mobile app there too.

General Background

• Dictionary of Literary Biography - info
• Contemporary Authors - info
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - info

Dictionaries

• Oxford Language Dictionaries (French, German Italian, Spanish) - info

News

• LexisNexis Academic - info

Scholarly Literature

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index - info
• Iter Bibliography - info
• JSTOR - info
• MLA International Bibliography - info
• Project Muse - info

Language-specific Materials

French

• ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) - info
• CESAR (Calendrier Electronique des Spectacles Sous l'ancien Regime et Sous la Revolution) - info
• Gallica (texts & images from the Bibliothèque nationale) - info
• Persée (e-journals) - info
• Erudit (Canadian books, articles, conference proceedings; all subjects) - info
• Revues.org (e-journals) - info

Chinese

• Siku Quanshu (CD-ROM, Hayden access only) - info
• Tealeaf Nation (blog)

German

• Weimarer Goethe-Bibliographie Online - info

Other Campus Resources

• FFLRC catalog (MIT Language Learning and Resource Center, 16-644) - info

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