LibGuides: Translation Studies: Databases

Key databases in your subject area

For comprehensive research use a specialist database. You can find translation studies specific online resources and databases on the Translation Studies Databases pages.

Listed here you can find the list of key databases for translation and a few interdisciplinary databases that can be used to search across several subjects.

Translation Studies Bibliography & Translation Studies Abstracts
Containing abstracts and summaries of journal articles and other published material and without any national, regional, cultural or thematic limitations TSB is aimed at scholars of translation and intercultural studies, and related disciplines.

The Handbook of Translation Studies
The Handbook of Translation Studies aims at disseminating knowledge about translation and interpreting and providing easy access to a large range of topics, traditions, and methods. The Handbook of Translation Studies Online is regularly revised and expanded.

MLA International Bibliography
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. International database on language, literature, linguistics and folklore.
Libro rojo
Username/password required. Access limited to 5 concurrent users. Medical dictionary translating medical terms from English to Spanish (American English & British English)
JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Core resource.
Web of Science Core Collection
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Web of Science. Cross searches Web of Science Core Collection. A core resource.
SCOPUS
Multi-disciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources.
Literature Online (LION)
Now upgraded to ProQuest One Literature. 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
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Index of journal articles covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Coverage is also given to various fields of translation including literary, machine assisted, simultaneous, methods and history of translation.

Dictionaries

Oxford Language Dictionaries

Full bi-lingual dictionaries, between English and French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese.

Oxford Reference Online

Full text of dictionaries, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including 130 English and bilingual dictionaries.

Duden Online

Key dictionary of the German language including definitions and grammar.

Dikke Van Dale

UCL username and password login required. Key dictionary of the Dutch language includes definitions, etymology, grammar, spelling and literary quotes.

Larousse Dictionaries

21 free online dictionaries including a French dictionary and bilingual dictionaries.

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Search the Translation Studies Bibliography

Translation Studies Bibliography & Translation Studies Abstracts
Contains abstracts and summaries of journal articles and other published material without any national, regional, cultural or thematic limitations.

Search the MLA

MLA International Bibliography
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. International database on language, literature, linguistics and folklore.