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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
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. International database on language, literature, linguistics and folklore.
JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Core resource.
ProQuest One Literature
ProQuest One Literature contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. Includes content from Literature Online (LION)
BoB National (Box of Broadcasts)
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.
Early European Books
Selected printed European works from before 1701, mostly in non-English European languages. Access to collections 1-17.
Oxford Language Dictionaries
Full bi-lingual dictionaries, between English and French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese.

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