Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (trial ends August 7, 2014)

For thirty days, the Middlebury College community has free access to the Oxford Language Dictionaries The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Let us […]…Continue Reading Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (trial ends August 7, 2014)

New Language Resources!

The Middlebury College community now has access to two resources of full-text journals and e-books in languages other than English! Digitalia Hispánica comprises nearly 10,000 e-books and almost 100 journals from Spanish and Latin American publishers. * ¡Diviértete! Editoria Italiana Online, the Italian Studies Collection  –  on Casalini Libri’s online platform, Torrossa – features nearly […]…Continue Reading New Language Resources!

Friday Links – May 2, 2014

At Middlebury, we’ve been using Summon as the discovery layer for our library collections for the last several years.  The recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about discovery tools is an interesting read: As Researchers Turn to Google, Libraries Navigate the Messy World of Discovery Tools Many professors and students gravitate to Google as […]…Continue Reading Friday Links – May 2, 2014

New to the library, April edition

In addition to the recently announced Annual Reviews of Economics and Chinese Newspaper Archive, more new library collections are rolling in: Research Databases Psychological Experiments Online GreenWire and related news services from E&E Publishing, covering environmental and energy topics JapanKnowledge Encyclopedias Wiley’s International Encyclopedia of Ethics Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an and Encyclopaedia of Islam Journals, etc. Journal of moral philosophy […]…Continue Reading New to the library, April edition

Environment and Agriculture – Taylor and Francis journal collection (trial through April 30)

Because Middlebury was ranked by Sierra Magazine as one of the “Cool Schools,” Taylor & Francis is graciously providing us with free access to the 212 journals in their Environment and Agriculture Collection. Since there isn’t a specific page or website for these journals, after the trial we will see whether the journals in this […]…Continue Reading Environment and Agriculture – Taylor and Francis journal collection (trial through April 30)