How to Find Foreign Language Materials

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IN THE CATALOG

Following are tips on how to search the catalog for Tisch foreign language holdings in most any format. Note: Keyword searches are words or phrases connected by “and” or “or”. A Subject search must be a Library of Congress Subject Heading.

SPECIFIC TITLE IN ANY FORMAT OR LANGUAGE

  1. Type of search:  TITLE
  2. Word or phrase:  enter title – for example “Novyi Mir”

BOOKS

  1. Type of search:  SUBJECT
  2. Word or phrase:  your topic – for example “economics”
  3. When you see results, choose (Limit/Sort) to select language and material type (Printed Matter).

CD’s (music)

  1. Type of search:  KEYWORD
  2. Word or phrase:  your topic in desired language – for example, “reve” (instead of the English word, “dream”)
  3. Change Entire Collection to Sound Recordings.

DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

  1. Type of search:  SUBJECT
  2. Word or phrase:  enter either “dictionaries” or “encyclopedias”
  3. When you see results, choose (Limit/Sort) to select language.

MICROFORMS

  1. Type of search:  KEYWORD
  2. Word or phrase:  “microform (your topic)” – for example “microform literature”
  3. Use (Modify Search) to limit by language.

PERIODICALS

  1. Type of search:  KEYWORD
  2. Word or phrase:   “periodicals (your topic)” – for example “periodicals art”
  3. Use (Modify Search) to limit by language.

VIDEOS

  1. Type of search:  SUBJECT
  2. Word or phrase:  your topic – for example “documentary films” or “China”
  3. Change Entire Collection to Video/DVD.
  4. When you see results, choose (Limit/Sort) to select language.

IN THE DATABASES (for articles and other texts)

Many databases index foreign language journals; the following contain full text of foreign language articles, books, and other writings. All are found at Tisch Library homepage under Articles via Databases: http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch/.

ARTFL (classical French writings, including literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.)

Lexis-Nexis

Ethnic NewsWatch

The Making of the Modern World

Gerritsen Collection

Patrologia Latina (Catholic Church History)

JStor

Project Muse

IN THE CURRENT PERIODICALS

Below are currently received foreign language newspapers, magazines, and journals in print at Tisch Library.  Additional titles are available at the Ginn Library.


Chinese
Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association

Dutch
Oud Holland

French
Annales
Annales de l'Institut Fourier
Autre sud
Bibliothèque d'humanisme et Renaissance
Bulletin de correspondance hellénique
Bulletin de la Société mathématique de France
Bulletin des amis d'André Gide
Bulletin hispanique
Cahiers de civilisation médiévale
Cahiers d'études africaines
Cahiers du cinéma
Conjonction
Critique
L'Enseignement mathématique
L'Esprit créateur
Études germaniques
Etudes littéraires
Forces
Géotechnique
Historia
L'Information littéraire
Jeu
Latomus
Littérature
Mémoire
Le Monde sélection hebdomadaire
Le Moyen âge
Nouvelle revue française
Nouvelles études francophones
Paris match
Poétique
Présence francophone
Revue archéologique
Revue de l'art
Revue de littérature comparée.
Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes
Revue des deux mondes
Revue des études grecques
Revue des études latines
Revue des sciences humaines
Revue d'histoire du théâtre.
Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France
Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine
Revue du Louvre : la revue des musées de France
Revue française de science politique
Revue historique
Romania
Romantisme
Les temps modernes
Voix et images

German
Akzente
Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie
Balagan
Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Forum modernes Theater
Deutschunterricht
Gnomon
Graphische Kunst
Kant-Studien  philosophische Zeitschrift
Kunstchronik
Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte
Lustrum
Mathematische zeitschrift
Monatshefte für Mathematik
Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie
Profil
Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
Romanische Forschungen
Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte
Spiegel
Theater heute
Volkskunde
Wirkendes Wort
Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
Zeitschrift für Volkskunde

Italian
Arte lombarda
Athenaeum
Corriere della sera
Cultura neolatina
Esperienze letterarie
Griffithiana
Lingua e stile
Il Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica
Poesia
Prospettiva
Rivista del Nuovo cimento
Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica
Storia dell'arte
Studi francesi
Studi italiani di filologia classica
Il Veltro

Latin
Latomus

Russian
Literaturnaia Gazeta
Novoe russkoe slovo
Novyĭ mir
Voprosy literatury

Spanish
Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
Nueva revista de filología hispánica
Revista de occidente
Revista iberoamericana


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