Reference and data sources for Modern Languages
Sources below include subscription services accessible to members of the University of Sheffield via MUSE and freely available internet sites.
| Reference and full-text databases | |
|---|---|
| Contemporary authors | Information about 100,000 modern authors |
| Enciclopedia del cine espanol | 100 years of Spanish cinema |
| Encyclopedia of philosophy | Full text encyclopedia |
| Economist Country Briefings | News, country profiles, forecasts, statistics |
| Film index international | Details of film titles and personalities |
| Huguet: dictionnaire de la langue francaise du XVIe siecle | Renaissance language dictionary |
| Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism | Wide geographical, cultural and chronological coverage |
| Larousse multimedia encyclopedique | French encyclopedia |
| LondonMet study packs | Interactive language exercises |
| Nuremberg War Crimes Trials | Fully searchable full text database |
| Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950 | Eight newsreel stories from early years of Cold War |
| Parties and Elections in Europe | Database about parliamentary elections in the European countries and autonomous subdivisions since 1945 |
| Philosopher's index | Literature on aspects of philosophy |
| Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy | Dynamic reference work |
| Tresor de la Langue Francaise informatise | Dictionary of the French language |
| World War One | Part of The Times Perspectives Series |
| World War Two | Part of The Times Perspectives Series |
| Collections of primary texts | |
|---|---|
| Calvin's Institutes | Latin/English version, with search and browser programs |
| Continental Rationalists | Selected writings of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz |
| Ebooks Libres et Gratuits | Open access french ebooks |
| Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Libraries | An on-line archive of standards-based texts and images in the humanities and user community |
| Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature | Collection of links from ACRL, Western European Studies Section – links to full texts |
| Kant: Hauptwerke | Full text of selected works |
| Kierkegaard: journals and papers | Full text of Kierkegaard's Journals and papers |
| Monumenta Germaniae Historica | Medieval historical texts relating to what is now Germany |
| Nietzsche: Werke | Full text of selected works |
| Project Gutenberg | The original free texts project |
| Voltaire electronique | Based on Les Oeuvres completes de Voltaire |
| Wittgenstein: collected works | Full text of Wittgenstein's English language work |
| Print Resources | |
|---|---|
| Brockhaus Encyclopedie | WBL REF 033 (B) |
| The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union | WBL REF 947 (C) |
| Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon | WBL REF 830.3 (K) |
| Dictionary of the Middle Ages | WBL REF 940.1 (D) |
| Enciclopedia de historia de España | WBL REF 946 (E) |
| Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture | WBL REF 944.0803 (E) |
| Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture | WBL REF 943.08703 (E) |
| Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture | WBL REF 946.083 (E) |
| Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean cultures | WBL REF 980.03 (E) |
| Encyclopedia of Latin American literature | WBL REF 868.998 (E) and Q 868.998 (E) |
| Encyclopedia of the Renaissance | WBL REF 940.4 (E) |
| Gran enciclopèdia catalana | WBL REF 036.7 (G) |
| Guide to French Literature | WBL REF 840.9 (G) |
| Medieval France : an encyclopedia | WBL REF 944.02 (M) |
| Medieval Germany : an encyclopedia | WBL REF 943.02 (M) |
| Medieval Iberia : an encyclopedia | Information Commons 946.0203 (M) |