GUIDES TO ONLINE RESOURCES
INTRODUCTION
Jamilah Binti
Hassan Basri
Email: jamilahhassan@notes.usm.my
/ ext: 3980
REFERENCE
(Accessible via USM Library’s website www.lib.usm.my)
BRILL ONLINE
http://www.brillonline.nl/subscriber/uid=4276/
Check on other online resources which contains the Linguistic Bibliography Online that essential
linguistic reference tool that is unique in its field. It provides over 250,000
bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics and is by
far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field.
OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE: PREMIUM COLLECTION
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html
Online access to the world's most trusted reference
collection. It contains hundreds of English Dictionaries & Reference, Bilingual
Dictionaries, Subject Reference, Encyclopedia
and others.
SAGE eReference
http://www.sage-ereference.com/
The SAGE
Reference Online database is highly recommended for academic and public
libraries. With its intuitive interface that promotes the exploration of
exceptional content, SAGE Reference Online is an excellent choice for
increasing access to reference content.
SUSCRIBED DATABASES
(Accessible via USM Library’s website www.lib.usm.my)
BRITANNICA
ONLINE ACADEMIC EDITION
The award-winning Britannica Online delivers fast and easy
access to high quality, comprehensive information. The rich combination of
Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and
Thesaurus, magazine and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the
variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting
thorough research-all from one database.
GALE
DATABASES
http://find.galegroup.com/gps/dispBasicSearch.do?prodId=IPS&userGroupName=myusm
Search for any term and find articles from thousands of
magazines, journals and books or video and podcast content from numerous
outfits.
One-stop site hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases
and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge
and Psychology Press.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/subject?j_subject=221
IngentaConnect offers one of the
most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles
online - some 4 million articles from 11,000 publications.
ISI WEB
OF KNOWLEDGE
ISI Web of Knowledge is today‘s premier research
platform, helping you to quickly find, analyze, and share information in the
sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Designed for both novice and
professional researchers, its streamlined search process makes it easy for you
to quickly find and analyze past and present available research in your field.
JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch?cookieSet=1
The JSTOR collections have been
developed through the participation of many organizations that have licensed
scholarly publications to us and have provided print artifacts or digital files
to include in the archive.
PROQUEST
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb/
Provides access to more than 100 full-text and bibliographic
databases published by CSA and its publishing partners.
SCIENCEDIRECT
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific
database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500
peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. There are currently more
than 9.5 million articles/chapters, a content base that is growing at a rate of
almost 0.5 million additions per year.
SCOPUS
http://www.scopus.com/home.url
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of
peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track
analyze and visualize research.
SPRINGERLINK
http://www.springerlink.com/home/main.mpx
SpringerLink is one of the world's
leading interactive databases for high-quality STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the
Online Archives Collection. SpringerLink is a
powerful central access point for researchers and scientists.
SUBSCRIBED ELECTRONIC
JOURNALS
(Accessible via USM Library’s website www.lib.usm.my)
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS E-JOURNAL FULL COLLECTION
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/
As a major international
publisher of academic and research journals, Oxford Journals publishes and
develops titles in partnership with the world's most prestigious learned
societies. Our goal is to bring high quality research to the widest possible
audience.
SAGE PREMIER
(1999-CURRENT ISSUES)
http://online.sagepub.com/browsejournals.dtl?source=available
SAGE publishes more than 560 journals in Business,
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE
Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the
full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research
databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.
WorldSciNet, our journal website,
has been developed to further enhance our services to the academic and
professional communities. WorldSciNet provides an
array of services which includes: free table-of-contents e-mail alerts on new
issues of our journals, latest news related to our journals, free online sample
articles, feature articles, search functions and related links, to name a few.
Researchers will also be able to request for complimentary copies and recommend
journals to their colleagues within a few clicks.
E-BOOKS
(Accessible via USM Library’s website www.lib.usm.my)
http://usm.cambridge.patron.eb20.com/
Cambridge University Press publishes the finest academic and
educational writing from around the world. Through publication, we aim to
further the
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS eBOOKS
http://www.igpublish.com/columbia-ebooks/main.nsp
EBRARY
Access to Academic Complete, a growing e-book collection spanning all
academic subject areas including in Language, Literature & Linguistics.
GALE
GVRL eBOOKs
http://find.galegroup.com/gps/dispBasicSearch.do?prodId=IPS&userGroupName=myusm
Search for any term and find articles from thousands of
magazines, journals and books or video and podcast content from numerous
outfits.
http://www.igpublish.com/koganpage-ebooks/main.nsp
http://www.springerlink.com/home/main.mpx
SpringerLink is one of the world's leading
interactive databases for high-quality STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the
Online Archives Collection. SpringerLink is a
powerful central access point for researchers and scientists.
NetLibrary provides access to your library’s eContent collection. eContent is
the digital version of books, journals, and database content. You can access
your library’s eContent 24 hours a days, seven days a
week. NetLibrary lets you access your affiliated
library's eContent collection, which can include eBooks,
eJournals, and eAudiobooks.
RELATED LINKS
GENERAL
Developer: Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project,
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
Includes both the dictionary and thesaurus. This
dictionary gives words nearest to your request, if you are not sure of the
spelling.
SUGGESTED
LINKS
CELPAD
(CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES AND PRE-UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT)
http://www.iiu.edu.my/celpad/v3/
CELPAD offers courses in English, Arabic and Bahasa Melayu as well as Tilawah al-Quran to undergraduate and postgraduate students
at all levels of proficiency.
http://www.dbp.gov.my/lamandbp/main.php
INSTITUT TERJEMAHAN NEGARA
ITNM is a limited
company established by the government of
LINGUAPHONE
http://www.linguaphone.com.my/intro.php
The Linguaphone Group is the world's leading language
training provider of self-study and assisted learning language training solutions. With courses in
15 languages, Linguaphone courses are taught through
a network of over 100 training centers in 20 countries and distributed in over
60 countries worldwide.
http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/~ppbl/index.html
http://www.freetranslation.com/
SDL FreeTranslation.com is
a free translation website
allowing you to translate web
pages and text into different languages.
THE
LANGUAGE HOUSE
http://www.languagehouse.edu.my/
First school offer intensive English program and offers more
languages than any other language center in