GUIDES TO ONLINE RESOURCES

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LITERACIES AND TRANSLATION

 

 

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

http://www.search.eb.com/

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.

 

INFORMAWORLD

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/browse~append=714594761~by=subject~db=all~thing=title#subject714594761

One-stop site hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press.

 

INGENTACONNECT

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

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/UA_GeneralSearch_input.do?preferencesSaved=&product=UA&SID=P2DgemiIeA1E8Jfnla7&search_mode=GeneralSearch&last_prod=WOS&highlighted_tab=UA&cacheurl=no

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

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

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.

 

WORLD SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION

http://www.worldscinet.com/

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)

 

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS - E - BOOKS

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 University of Cambridge’s own objective of advancing learning, knowledge and research worldwide.

 

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS eBOOKS

http://www.igpublish.com/columbia-ebooks/main.nsp

 

 

 

 

EBRARY

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/unisains/search.action?adv.x=1&f00=all&p00=language+OR+literature+OR+linguistics&f01=all&p01=&subject_relation=or&search=Search+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.

 

KOGANPAGE EBOOKS

http://www.igpublish.com/koganpage-ebooks/main.nsp

 

SPRINGER E-BOOKS/BOOKS

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.

 

USM eBOOKS-NETLIBRARY

http://www.netlibrary.com/

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

 

FRENCH / ENGLISH DICTIONARY

http://machaut.uchicago.edu/

Developer: Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago

 

MERRIAM-WEBSTER ONLINE

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.

 

DEWAN BAHASA DAN PUSTAKA

http://www.dbp.gov.my/lamandbp/main.php

 

INSTITUT TERJEMAHAN NEGARA MALAYSIA

http://www.itnm.com.my/

ITNM is a limited company established by the government of Malaysia. It deals with matters relating to translation and interpreting, apart from stimulating efforts of transferring information at all levels, national and international. With its share capital wholly owned by the Ministry of Finance and its administration managed by the Ministry of Education, ITNM is guided by the corporate philosophy of creating a scientific and progressive society, striving to enrich the repository of knowledge and promoting the competitiveness of the nation in regional economics.

 

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.

 

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES AND LINGUISTICS, UKM

http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/~ppbl/index.html

 

SDL FREETRANSLATION.COM

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 Malaysia.