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Welcome to the Modern languages guide

These pages have been put together by your Subject Liaison Librarian to provide Modern Languages (SELCS) students with information about Library resources available in their subject area, Use the menu to see how the library can support your learning and research.

In this guide you will find information on:

Books.
Journals.
Databases.
Researching for a topic.
Referencing and using Reference Management Software.

Subject Collections

Some of the key resources for Modern languages include:

MLA International Bibliography
International database on language, literature, linguistics and folklore.
JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Core resource.
BoB National (Box of Broadcasts)
Access is extended for use within the EU until 31st December 2020. Access or use of BoB is only permitted within the United Kingdom. Requires login with UCL username and password. This is a streaming only service. BoB requires a flashplayer 9 for PC's or 10 for Mac. The earliest supported browser versions are: Internet Explorer 10, Mozilla Firefox 26, Safari 5, Google Chrome 31.
Oxford Language Dictionaries
Full bi-lingual dictionaries, between English and French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese.
Early European Books
Selected printed European works from before 1701, mostly in non-English European languages. First collection includes materials from the Danish Royal Library.
Literature Online (LION)
Integrating over 350,000 works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th to the 21st century with a huge library of criticism and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries

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