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 Dictionaries & Thesauri : All Databases
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed. augmented with Collins English Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Collins Thesaurus of the English Language — Complete and Unabridged, 2nd ed.
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Contains the complete Encyclopædia Britannica, as well as Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus and the Britannica Book of the Year. Includes articles, illustrations, and relevant websites. Help - Guided Tour (PDF) | Help - Web Page
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Includes links to: • China Academic Journals Full-text - articles from 7,200 journals. • Century Journals Project - expansion of the China Academic Journals Full-text Database. • China Doctor Dissertations Full-text - 1999 - present. • China Master Dissertations Full-text - 2000 - present. • China Proceedings of Conference Full-text - Conference proceedings from academic institutions, industrial organizations, governmental agencies, and international bodies in China since 1999. • China Core Newspapers Full-text - Articles since 2000 of 1,000 publicly issued newspapers in mainland China • China Yearbook Full-text - Covers 1912 to present. • China Reference Works Online - About 2,000 titles of all types of reference works, such as dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, atlases, timelines, and handbooks. • China Statistical Yearbooks
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus An online database consisting of at least one copy of every surviving Old English text. In some cases, more than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date. As such, the DOE Web Corpus represents over three million words of Old English and fewer than a million words of Latin, or almost five times the collected works of Shakespeare. Added November 2012
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Search for full-text reference articles about a wide range of topics. Sources include Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary; Countries and Their Cultures; Encyclopedia of Community; Environmental Encyclopedia; Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia; Historical Atlas of the Islamic World; and many others. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - Search Tips (PDF)
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus An extensive online French dictionary comprised of all 6 volumes of the latest print edition of this work. Included in this resource are 86,000 articles, 100,000 words, 350,000 meanings, and 410,000 use examples, as well as etymological information, quotations, homonyms, and much more. Help - Guide d'utilisation (Website) Added February 2011
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Includes Japanese language dictionaries (Japanese, English-Japanese, Japanese-English and English-English), a 30-volume encyclopedia, two dictionaries of current words, a dictionary of scientific terms, a biographical dictionary, the JK Who's Who, the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, a news database (NNA) that covers Asia and the European Union, full-text books, a database of video recordings from 1908 to 2005, a database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan, a books in print database, a sound library, and a music library. Added December 2012
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus A comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. Search for words, phrases, quotations, and more. Includes all entries from the 15,000 page printed Middle English Dictionary. Help - Web Page
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Concise articles about noteworthy people in all walks of life from the British Isles and their connections overseas, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. No living person is included: the dictionary's articles are confined to people who died before December 31, 2000. Also includes "themes"—essays on groups, clubs, sets, and gangs in British history, linked to articles on their individual members. Help - PowerPoint | Help - Web Page
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) provides a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Fully indexed, cross-searchable database of about 100 dictionaries, including bilingual dictionaries and subject dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. Includes subject dictionaries in the humanities, social sciences, and science. Also includes the Oxford Paperback Thesaurus and the Pocket Oxford American Thesaurus Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TTL) provides access to all lexicon articles published up to 2008 (i.e., the letters A-M, O, P-pomifer, porta-pulso), the articles in the Onomasticon volumes (letters C and D), the Index librorum, and the Praemonenda de rationibus et usu operis (a multilingual introduction to the print version). Each year the contents of the newly printed fascicles will be added to the database. Help - PDF Questions about Dictionaries & Thesauri research? |
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