Databases

• Academic Search Complete (approximately 1880s to date). Provides abstracts of articles (summaries), and full-text articles from more than 10,000 books, scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and reference works on a wide variety of topics.
• Arts & Humanities Search (1980 to date). Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
• FirstSearch databases. Provides access to dozens of indexes and databases in a variety of disciplines.
• Fuente Academica (coverage varies; approximately 2000 to date). Furnishes the full text of scholarly Spanish language journals in many academic areas.
• Humanities Abstracts (1983 to date). Indexes a broad range of some 500 magazines and journal publications.
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984. Indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals in the social sciences and humanities.
• Literature Resource Center (LRC) (coverage varies). Provides access to critical and biographical information on living and deceased authors from around the world. See TipPage on using this database.
• MLA International Bibliography (1963 to date). A comprehensive, international index to articles and books on language, literature, and the dramatic arts.

Databases in Related Disciplines

• American Periodicals Series Online (1741 to 1900). Provides digitized images of more than 1,000 American magazines, journals, and newspapers.
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (coverage varies). An index to millions of biographical sketches in hundreds of reference books and other sources.
• Greenwood Daily Life Online (antiquity to date). Looks at the everyday lives of people throughout history from the material, religious, domestic, political, recreational, intellectual, and economic viewpoints.
• Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) (1665 to 1995). Provides author, title, and keyword access to the table-of-contents pages of more than 4,000 worldwide periodicals.

For a complete listing of databases provided by UMW Libraries, please see Databases A-Z.

selected reference books in simpson library

• Arabic
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian
• Spanish

ARABIC

• Arabic-English Dictionary REFB PJ 6640 .W34
• A Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic REFB PJ 6826 .D53 2003
• Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics REFB PJ 6031 .E53 2006
• Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature REFB PJ 7510 .E53 1998
• NCT's Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary REFB PJ 6856 .Q24 1997
• Modern Arabic Literature REFB PJ 7538 .M58
• The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary REFB PJ 6640 .O93

FRENCH

• Collins Robert French Dictionary REFB PC 2640 .C69 2002
• The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature REFB PQ 149 .F47 1999
• French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book REFB PQ 149 .F73 1991
• Guide to French Literature REFB PQ 41 .L484 1994
• Harper Collins French Concise Dictionary REFB PC 2640 .F74 2004
• Harrap's New Standard French and English Dictionary REFB PC 2640 .H317 1980
• Larousse Chambers Dictionnaire REFB PC 2640 .G735 2003
• Larousse French-English, English-French dictionary REFB PC 2640 .G735 2003
• The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French REFB PQ 41 .N48 1995
• Tresor de la Langue Francaise REFB PC 2625 .I4

GERMAN

• Collins German-English, English-German Dictionary REFB PF 3640 .C68 2003
• Companion to Twentieth Century German Literature REFB PT 401 .F87
• Duden: Das Grosse Worterbuch der Deutschen Sprache in Zehn Banden REFB PF 3625 .G75 1999
• Encyclopedia of German Literature REFB PT 41 .E63 2000
• The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature REFB PT 41 .F46 1997
• Harrap's Standard German and English Dictionary REFB PF 3640 .H3 1963a
• Langenscheidt's New Muret-Sanders Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English and German Llanguages REFB PF 3640 .L257
• Oxford-Duden German Dictionary REFB PF 3640 .O94 2005

ITALIAN

• Collins Italian Dictionary REFB PC 1640 .C38 2005
• Dictionary of Italian Literature REFB PQ 4006 .D45 1996
• DII : Dizionario Inglese-Italiano, Italiano-Inglese REFB PC 1640 .D18 2001
• Dizionario Etimologico Italiano REFB PC 1580 .B3 1975
• Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies REFB PQ 4006 .E536 2007
• Grande Dizionario Della Lingua Italiana REFB PC 1625 .B3
• Italian Literature and Its Times REFB PQ 4038 .M67 2005
• Italian Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook REFB PQ 4063 .I88 1994
• Larousse Concise Dictionary: Italian-English, English Italian REFB PC 1640 .L315 2004
• The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature REFB PQ 4006 .O84 2002
• Oxford-Paravia Il Dizionario REFB PC 1640 .O95 2006

JAPANESE

• Japanese Modern Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook REFB PL 725 .J37 1994
• Kodansha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary REFB PL 679 .K67 2001
• Modern Japanese Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary REFB PL 747.55 .L48 1993
• Modern Japanese Writers REFB PL 723 .M563 2001
• Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary REFB PL 679 .N294 1995

KOREAN

• Basic Glossary of Korean Studies REFB PL 935 .B38 1993
• Minjung's Essence English-Korean Dictionary REFB PL 937 .E5 E84 1996
• Minjung's Essence Korean-English Dictionary REFB PL 937 .E774 1996
• NTC's Compact Korean and English Dictionary REFB PL 937 .E5 N15 1995

RUSSIAN

• Dictionary of Russian Literature since 1917 REFB PG 2991.4 .K3513
• Dictionary of Russian Women Writers REFB PG 2997 .D53 1994
• English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary REFB PG 2640 .K34 1984
• Handbook of Russian Literature REFB PG 2940 .H29 1985
• Oxford Russion Dictionary REFB PG 2640 .W5 2000
• The Penguin Russian Dictionary REFB PG 2640 .R93 1995
• Reference Guide to Russian Literature REFB PG 2940 .R44 1998

SPANISH

• Collins Dictionary REFB PC 4640 .C53 2003
• The Contemporary Spanish Novel REFB PQ 6144 .A64 1996
• Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature REFB PQ 6055 .F46 2002
• Harper Collins Spanish Concise Dictionary REFB PC 4640 .S63 2004
• Larousse Concise Dictionary REFB PC 4640 .L38 2006
• Larousse Gran Diccionario REFB PC 4640 .L393 2004
• Larousse Standard Diccionario REFB PC 4640 .S72 2004
• A New History of Spanish Writing, 1939 to the 1990s REFB PQ 6072 .N49 2000
• Oxford Spanish Dictionary REFB PC 4640 .O94 2003
• Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times (The Iberian Peninsula) REFB PQ 6041 .M67 2002
• Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book REFB PQ 6055 .S63

Websites

Virtual libraries

Virtual libraries contain annotated collections of high-quality Internet resources that librarians or other information specialists have carefully selected. Users can usually browse by subject or search.

• Librarians' Internet Index. See especially the Language and Languages categories under Arts and Humanities. The subdivisions on the left help you to browse the hundreds of language resources. In addition, you can use the drop-down menu to narrow and focus your search.
• The Internet Public Library. See especially the Language & Linguistics category under Arts & Humanities. The sections of "Language & Linguistics" include (among others):
  • Arabic
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Russian
  • Spanish