Arabic Research Guide

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  • Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte, Band I : Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora
  • Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte : Band II: Materielle Kultur
  • Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
  • Index Islamicus  
All Items by Source
Atlases
Audio Files
Biographical Information
Books: other Catalogs
Citation and Style Guides
Citation Tools
Dictionaries
Dissertations
eBooks
Encyclopedias
Government Information
International Geographic Resources
Journals/Magazines
Newspapers--International
Primary Sources
Radio Stations
Statistics/Data
TV Stations
Web Sites

Journals/Magazines

OACIS (Yale University) Unrestricted Resource
OACIS for the Middle East (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials) is a union list of serials from or about the Middle East. The mission of OACIS is to improve access to Middle Eastern serials in libraries in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
Searchable archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 1665 - 2000. PAO is searchable with the British Periodicals I & ll collection. Also see Periodicals Index Online for indexing to additional journals titles.

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
A selection of full-text books, conference reports, and working papers on international affairs.

Directory of Open Access Journals Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3303 journals in the directory. Currently 1076 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 175523 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

EconLit with Full Text Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Index for over 600 journals (400+ full-text), books, documents, and working papers in the field of economics. 1969 - present. Go shortcut = go/econlit. 
Note: Note: Summon searches Econlit citations, but it does not search the full-text. To search within full-text journals, select All Text from Econlit's search box Select a Field menu.

ERIC Database Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, containing more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.

Historical Abstracts Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.

Index Islamicus Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. 1906 - present.

JSTOR Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Full-text archive of over 1000 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. For off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off campus). All Middlebury alumni can access our JSTOR archived journals, dating up to five years ago. To access JSTOR for Middlebury alumni visit http://go.middlebury.edu/jstoralum.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Academic Universe provides access to the full text of national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, and more. It also includes business, financial, and legal information, including laws, regulations, cases, and EU law. The non-English language news link includes news in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Go shortcut = go/lexis (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/lexis (off campus).

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ProQuest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.  The documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers, 1960-present.  Now on the ProQuest platform.

MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. (Now on the ProQuest platform.)

PAIS International (ProQuest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
Indexes journals, books, and documents covering global public policy and social issues in all disciplines. 1972 - current. For 1915 -1976, switch to PAIS Archive (click on Specific Database link to choose PAIS Archive). Go shortcut = go/pais

Project Muse Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.  Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).

Books: other Catalogs

Universal Digital Library Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Access to over 1 million digitized books.  Most titles are in Chinese or English, but other languages are included, such as Arabic.

WorldCat Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
Use this union catalog of over 40 million books, documents, reports, and media from libraries worldwide to identify books to request via InterLibrary Loan. If we don't own the book and you want to borrow it from another library, click on the ILL icon from the record. (OCLC)

International Geographic Resources

Columbia Gazetteer of the World Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world.

Library of Congress Country Studies Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

Web Sites

Arabic Language Learning Links Unrestricted Resource
 Web page of collected links to various resources.

al-Bab: an open door to the Arab world Unrestricted Resource Resource contains images
Portal site introducing Arab culture.

Yamada Language Guides Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Web Portal for numerous language related sites

Government Information

Governments on the WWW Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002.

Citation Tools

Zotero Unrestricted Resource
Browser plug-in that helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.  For Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.  Similar to RefWorks, but slightly easier to learn. Check our guide to get started.

Atlases

Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte : Band II: Materielle Kultur Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
  The Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical richness and diversity of the Arabic dialects as spoken from Uzbekistan to Mauretania and Nigeria, from Malta to Sudan, and including the Ki-Nubi Creole as spoken in Uganda and Kenya

Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte, Band I : Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
 The Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical richness and diversity of the Arabic dialects as spoken from Uzbekistan to Mauretania and Nigeria, from Malta to Sudan, and including the Ki-Nubi Creole as spoken in Uganda and Kenya

Audio Files

Naxos Music Library Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Resource contains audio
The world´s largest online classical music library. Offers streaming access to more than 52,677 CDs. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 378 classical, jazz and world music labels.  In addition, users can create playlists.

Music Online Listening Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Resource contains audio
Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of your library's Alexander Street Press music databases. (Alexander Street Press streaming music databases.)

Biographical Information

Literature Resource Center Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
The Gale Literature Resource Center provides basic information about an author or a playwright as well as literary criticism from journals.  When you do a search on the author's name, the first tab of results will be a link to a biographical profile of his/her life and works, while the second tab will give links to literary criticism and other articles. Other tabs will lead to additional resources.

Citation and Style Guides

RefWorks On-campus use only Link to Article
RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. For more information, see the Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at  http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.

Dictionaries

Edward Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (Dictionary) Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
 downloadable PDF files of this multivolume work.

Lexilogos Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Online Arabic dictionary.

MIDCAT List - Arabic Language Dictionaries Unrestricted Resource
Active catalog search.
Note: Active catalog search

Your Dictionary Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Portal site for online language dictionaries and grammars.

Dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full text Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
Search for millions of full text dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to present. Contains full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997. To obtain a copy of a dissertation or thesis unavailable as full text, use Inter Library Loan or request a Library purchase.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available

MIDCAT List -- Encyclopedias, Arabic Unrestricted Resource
Active Catalog Search
Note: Active catalog search

Newspapers--International

Aljazeera Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Major news source in Arabic

Arabic Newsstand Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Portal site for news in Arabic.

Kidon Media Link Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Links to 18,776 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.

Library PressDisplay Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
45-day archive of full-color, full-page, scanned images of over 700 newspapers from 76 countries in 38 languages.

Newspapers24 Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video
12,000 newspapers, 24 hours news

Primary Sources

CRL: Center for Research Libraries Catalog Unrestricted Resource
Online catalog of the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), which includes over 5 million items including U.S. and international newspapers; foreign journals and dissertations; government documents, and a wide range of other primary source material.

Note: Middlebury's membership in CRL allows us unlimited borrowing of CRL material via Interlibrary Loan (put a note in your request if the item is available from CRL).

Arabic Bible Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains audio
MP3 audio of the Bible in Arabic - also links to text site.

Electronic Text Center: early Islam Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Several early texts, including the Koran, in English translation

Islamic Heritage Project Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Part of the Harvard University Open Collections Project

Online Arabic Literature Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Arab cultural and social website. Provides a collection of Arab cultural information, books, Islamic resources and more

Radio Stations

Radio-Locator Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Find radio stations by country

Statistics/Data

CIA - The World Factbook Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Produced by the CIA, country information including basic statistics.

TV Stations

International TV Unrestricted Resource Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Portal site to TV stations from around the world

eBooks

EBL eBook Library Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains audio
Tens of thousands of full-text ebooks primarily from academic publishers. Browse the collection (go/ebl) or read a step-by-step guide on reading and downloading ebooks. Use the advanced search option to browse books in languages other than English.



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Subject Specialist
Picture: Joy Pile

Joy Pile
Reference & Instruction Librarian for Foreign Languages & Music
Office: Lib 210
(802) 443- 5140
pile@middlebury.edu


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