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--Tony

If you want to learn about peer-reviewed journals and evaluating sources, check out Research Roadmap
 

Encyclopedias

Our library has general encyclopedias in languages other than English in our Reference collection.  Here are some examples:

French

  • Encyclopaedia Universalis (Ref AE 25 E3 1980)
  • Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Larousse (Ref AE 25 G63 1982)

German

  • Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (Ref AE 27 B76 1986)

Spanish

  • Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana, with appendix and supplements (Ref AE 61 E6)
 

Dictionaries

There are many dictionaries on the web, easy to find with Google or another search engine. Here are links to scholarly or standard dictionaries online:

CEDICT (Chinese-English Dictionary) from MDBG

Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française

Das Deutsche Wörterbuch (Grimm)

Diccionario de la Lengua Española

Print dictionaries in the library are located in the Reference collection on the first floor and the book stacks on the third floor.  Books in Reference can't be checked out, but you may use them anywhere in the library.  Books in the stacks can be checked out.  These call numbers work in both Ref and the stacks:

PC 2625     French language dictionaries
PC 2640     French-English/English-French

PC 4625     Spanish language dictionaries
PC 4640     Spanish-English/English-Spanish

PF 3625     German language dictionaries
PF 3640     German-English/English-German

PL 1455      Chinese-English/English-Chinese

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