University Library: Global Information Resources

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A German-English/English-German dictionary with comprehensive coverage of the general vocabulary of contemporary German and English (both British and American English, and the German of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).

Combined access to 18 concise and pocket sized bilingual dictionaries. Provides translations between English and seven other languages: French, German, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Modern Welsh. Includes specialized dictionaries for business related terms in French and Spanish.

Comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics. It is interdisciplinary in scope and represents different schools and approaches to be as objective and versatile as possible.

An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages.

Global Road Warrior is an extensive country-by-country resource for learning about culture, customs, history, and language worldwide. It consists of 174 Country Guides of 119 topics each.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints,

A full text database of 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages. Includes more than 100,000 articles in Spanish and over 400,000 in English.

Africa-Wide is a combination of two well-known databases, South African Studies and African Studies, published by NISC. It consists of more than 30 different database files from Africa, Europe and the U.S. indexing nearly two million records.

Looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries. Contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, maps and more.

Cross-search many titles previously on the now retired Oxford Islamic Studies Online platform. U-M users only

Provides citations drawn from more than 400 journals, primarily in Spanish or English, which cover Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics in the United States. UM users only

Compiled by Dr. Joseph Caruso, Columbia University Libraries.

Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts.