Modern Languages and Literatures

Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource directs researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.

Each Handbook in this collection offers a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in a particular field of study, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Individual articles review the key issues and major debates, and provide an original argument for how those debates might evolve.

Catalog of the 7,000+ known living languages of the world. Profiles for every language include: estimated number of speakers worldwide, endangerment status, maps, language families, language classification, and dialects.

The bibliography IBZ is an international and interdisciplinary reference work documenting academic periodical literature in the humanities, social sciences and related fields. Publications from 40 countries in more than 40 languages are reviewed for indexing.

Bibliography of literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).

The Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) holds the largest available collection of references in Egyptological literature and is updated nearly every day. It includes the records and abstracts from Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB, 1947-2001), combined with Bibliographie Altägypten (BA, 1822-1946), the Aigyptos database with keywords, and more than 50,000 further items. Coverage is from 1822 to the present.

Free, quality-controlled encyclopedia of world history including text, audio, and video formats.