European & Asian Cultures

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Key databases
Worth a look
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
High impact journals
Web sites and Internet resources

Key databases

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

MLA Bibliography
MLA is the standard guide to literary criticism of world authors. It also includes coverage of folklore and linguistics.
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LLBA: Language and Linguistic Behavior Abstracts Selected Full Text
Covers all aspects of language and applied linguistics, including language teaching and learning.
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Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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MAIS: Multicultural Australia
MAIS indexes and abstracts a wide range of published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and related multicultural issues.

DELTAA: Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia
Produced by the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR), Macquarie University.

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ABIA
ABIA is a bibliographic index on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology.

ACLS Humanities E-Book Full Text
The Humanities E-Book Collection consists of nearly 2,000 full-text titles covering archaeology, history, art history, literature, musicology, political science and religion.

A+ Education Full Text
Includes full-text journal articles from more than 100 education journals.

Anthropological Index Online
Indexes periodical literature on languages, linguistics, culture, archaeology, ethnography, religion and civilisation.

Anthrosource Selected Full Text
A searchable archive of the contents of all peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, and bulletins published by the American Anthropological Society.

APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995.
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Duke Scholarly Collection Full Text
Covers humanities and the social sciences.
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ERIC (CSA) Selected Full Text
The ERIC database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides extensive access to educational-related literature.
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Newsbank Full Text
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.

SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Online access to this will cease at the end of 2009.

Oxford Music Online Full Text
Oxford Music Online includes the full-text of Grove Music Online, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. Please note: UNE's subscription is for one simultaneous user. Please logout when finished.
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Oxford Reference Online
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There are online dictionaries for French, German and Italian and the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. A Guide to Countries of the World, World Encyclopedia and Dynasties of the World will give you statistical and other general country information. Other titles of interest include the Dictionary of Asian Mythology, Dictionary of World Mythology, Oxford Companion to World Mythology, Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, and Oxford Companion to Music.

High impact journals

The following European and Asian language and culture journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Language Studies and Cultural Studies:

Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities 1997-
Arab Studies Quarterly 1994-
Arabica 1954-
Australian Cultural History 1995- and in print at Call Number P994/A9381
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 1991-2005, 1997-
Critical Inquiry 1974-2002
Cultural Studies 1987- and in print at Call Number P306.4/C968
Cultural Studies Review 2002-
Die Welt des Islams 1913-2002, 1951-
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1994- and in print at Call Number P305.42/D569
English Studies 1997- and in print at Call Number P820.5/ENG
Hispanic Review 1933-2005, 1994-
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 2000-
International Journal of Middle East Studies 1970-2003
Japanese Language and Literature 1972-2000
Jewish Quarterly Review 1888-2002
Journal of Modern Italian Studies 1997-
Journal of Palestine Studies 1971-2005, 2002-
Journal of Popular Culture 1988-2005 and in print at Call Number P306.4/J86
Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 1968-2005
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 1939-2003
Language 1925-2003 and in print at Call Number P405/LAN
Language Variation and Change 1999- and in print at Call Number P417.4/L287
Media Culture & Society is in print at Call Number P302.23/M4895
MLN 1962-2003, 2003- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print at Call Number P805/M685
Modern Italy 1997-
Modern Language Quarterly 1992-2006 (Gale databases), 2000- and in print at Call Number P805/M6892
Modern Language Review 1905-2005, 1997- (Gale databases) and in print at Call Number P805/M6894
Muslim World 1997-
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 1997-
Natural Language Semantics 1997-
Papers on Language and Literature 1994-, 1992- (Gale databases)
Past & Present 1952-2001
Patterns of Prejudice 1999-
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 1889-2003 and in print at Call Number P805/P738
Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 2000- and in print at Call Number P959/P855
Public Culture 1988-
Representations 1983-2005, 2002- and in print at Call Number P700.4/R425
Review of English Studies 1925-2000, 1997- (1 year delay for most current issue)
Romance Quarterly 1997- and in print at Call Number P840.09/R7585
Russian Linguistics 1997-
Sign Language Studies 2002-
Studies in Language 2000- and in print at Call Number P410/S933
Studies in Second Language Acquisition 1997- and in print at Call Number P401.93/S933
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 1996- (Gale databases)
Theory, Culture and Society 1998- and in print at Call Number P300.5/T396

Web sites and Internet resources

AsiaSource produced by the Asia Society, with news on arts & culture, business & economics, social issues and politics & government.
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library maintained by ANU.
China Digital Library in Chinese.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World and links to language websites.
iLoveLanguages guide to languages on the web.
LearningLanguages.net is an excellent site for English speakers to learn Japanese, Spanish and French. It is designed for K-12 students and teachers but has wonderful audio exercises, educational resources and links to quality websites.
LingNet has reading and listening lessons for over 20 languages, legends and folktales and links to useful language websites.
Portal to Asian Internet Resources
Project Gutenberg has online books in many languages.
Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia.
Virtual CALL Library of downloadable CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) software. It has been developed by the Sussex Language Institute.