LibGuides: Languages and Cultures: Find Sources

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Features of Journal Articles:

Also known as peer-reviewed or academic articles, they are written by experts and/or highly trained professionals in a particular field.
The rigorous peer-review process ensures articles are vetted and fact-checked before publication.
Journal articles typically focus on a topic through a very narrow lens.

Find Journal Articles:

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Artstor is now part of JSTOR. Recent issues of most journals are embargoed.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
A searchable collection of over 300 full text academic press journals covering literature, history, the arts, education, philosophy, political science and more.
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Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Includes full text for more than 1,400 journals with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Provides book reviews.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Our largest interdisciplinary database, ASU indexes peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, magazines, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. 1887 - present.
Also includes more than 74,000 videos from the Associated Press, which appear in a carousel in the result list. Updated monthly, this collection of videos from the world’s leading news agency includes footage from 1930 to the present and helps round out student research

Features of Scholarly Books:

Due to the length, they typically cover a topic more broadly than journal articles.
They are typically written for a larger audience than journal articles.
They may contain a collection of related chapters by different authors.

Important Note: In most cases you'll only use a chapter or two for your research so don't be scared off by the length of a book.

Find Books:

Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Search for materials in the Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, and Mansfield libraries plus online books, online media, and government publications.

Culture and Customs

To find books and ebooks on customs of individual countries, search the catalog for keywords culture and customs of or keywords culture shock or keywords food culture or passport your pocket guide to business, customs and etiquette. If desired, add the name of a particular country to each set of keywords.

Cuisine

To locate recipes for specific countries or regions, search subjects under Cooking, [national or ethnic group] (examples: Cooking, French or Cooking, Chinese). These headings may be further subdivided to designate regional styles (example: Cooking, Spanish - Andalusian style).

Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia

Literature

Literature of other countries is found in the following classification ranges:

PG Russian, Slavic, Polish

PJ-PK Middle East, Indo-Iranian; Arabic Literatures

PL-PM Eastern Asian, African, Oceania, Indian; Chinese Literatures

PQ French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Literatures

PT German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Literatures

Study Abroad

Travel guides to various countries and cities may be found by searching in the catalog by keywords for the name of the country or city and the word "guides," or for keywords Fodor's or Eyewitness travel or Rick Steves. See also these three travel web sites:

Electronic Books

Use these links to view online electronic books on studying abroad.

The Art of Crossing Cultures

Au Contraire! Figuring Out the French

The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21st Century

Developing Intercultural Awareness

Spain is Different

Global Business and Travel Etiquette

To find books and ebooks on business and travel communication and customs. search the catalog for keywords global etiquette or do's taboos or taboos etiquette or passport pocket guide to business customs and etiquette.

Websites:

Library of Congress: World Cultures & History
These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories: General World Regions (history), Africa & the Middle East, The Americas (including Hispanic Reading Room Webcasts), Asia & the Pacific, and Europe (including history and Treasures from the Bibliotheque nationale de France).
Country Studies Series
Written by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress for the U.S. Army
U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets (formerly Country Background Notes)
Information about countries, their people and the United States' relationship with them, brought to you by the U.S. State Department.

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Includes foreign language films.

Find Statistics and Data:

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista.com consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.

World Development Indicators
Statistical information on population, employment, education, poverty, economy, investment climate, GDP, and Gross National Income.
Wolfram Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine
Search a country name for a variety of information. Historical statistics are available.
Social Watch
Choose a country from the drop-down menu for reports on social indicators
UN Statistics Division
Also search the catalog for keywords statistical yearbook.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
World population statistics back to 1950.
World Bank Data and Statistics
World Health Organization Countries

Features of News Articles:

Written by journalists and typically reviewed by one or more editors.
Can provide in the moment coverage of current events.
Written for a broad audience.

Find News Articles:

Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Selected full text for 40+ national (U.S.) and international newspapers,full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
New York Times (Account Activation) This link opens in a new window
Includes Spanish and Chinese language versions of the newspaper. Use this link to activate your New York Times online subscription. Once created, you can access nytimes.com directly on the web or mobile app. Includes breaking news, multimedia, opinion, blogs, videos and more. NOTE: Create your account using your university email. Includes access to archived articles between 1851-2002 (5 pdf downloads per day per user)
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Includes international newspapers. More than 15,000 news, legal and business sources.
News, legal and business sources, including print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts; newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers with deep archives; extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 75 million executives Visit their Help page or their Training and Support page.

Search Everything

Search Everything is the library's equivalent to Google. In addition to searching everything in the Library's Catalog (books, ebooks, media, etc.) it also searches most of our databases containing journal articles and other electronic resources.