English Language and Communication

Academic Search Complete - a multi-disciplinary database offering full text access to more than 5,300 journals, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. It also has abstracts from more than 4,000 additional periodicals, plus some books, reports and conference proceedings. Has good coverage of English Studies journals.

Communication & Mass Media Complete - this database covers subjects such as advertising, broadcasting, communication, cultural studies, film, journalism, language and linguistics, mass media, radio, rhetoric and television.

MLA international bibliography - a bibliography of many journal articles, books and dissertations. Subject coverage includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and literary criticism.

Factiva  - international news database providing an archive of 10000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. Leading national newspapers, local newspapers, trade and professional journals, the BBC Monitoring Service (transcripts of world radio broadcasts) and company financial data are all included.

JSTOR - this database provides an archive of full-text articles from academic journals covering a wide range of humanities, social sciences, and science disciplines. It does not however include full-text access to the most recent three to five years worth of many journals, so researchers looking for relatively new material may wish to use other databases such as EBSCOhost or Academic Search Premier.

Zetoc - British Library's electronic table of contents. Covers about 20,000 current journals and conference proceedings published since 1993, and is updated daily. Note that records do not have abstracts; only bibliographic details are given.

N.B. The Library's electronic databases page provides a complete list of all our databases with brief details of subject coverage and access information. You may also find it useful to look at other subject help pages for details of more subject specific databases.

Many full-text journals to which the Library subscribes are available electronically over the internet, allowing you to read articles on the screen.

The Library Catalogue gives details of e-journals we have access to, as well as all the printed journals held in the Library. Enter the journal title into the keyword or title search box and select Electronic & Printed Journals Catalogue as the collection.

The catalogue entry for an e-journal connects to the A-Z list (a complete listing of full-text e-journals available to Oxford Brookes staff and students). This shows the range of years that full text is available and the host service (or collection) that provides access to that individual journal title.

If you are looking for journal articles on a specific topic, you should use a database.

Note: most of our e-journals (and databases) require confidential passwords, enabling secure access for members of Brookes. In most cases this is the Athens security system. Some of the e-journals or databases require other confidential passwords. Your PIP page (Personal Information Portal) also provides details of the relevant passwords, through the Library Electronic Resources section, and can be accessed from off-campus. Before you start trying to access e-journals or search databases, you should log in to Athens. From off-campus we also recommend that you set up the institutional cookie on your home computer.

The vast majority of our electronic books are listed on the Library catalogue. By changing the collection to 'Electronic books catalogue' you can search solely for electronic books.

Dictionaries and thesauri - includes the Oxford English Dictionary as well as Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.

Encyclopaedias - access to multidisciplinary encyclopedias including Wikipedia, plus some on specific topics.

Oxford reference online - contains about 200 Oxford reference books, including dictionaries, language reference and subject reference titles.

News and current affairs - contains links to the websites of all the major English broadsheet newspapers. Also links to Factiva, where you can search an extensive archive of articles from a range of UK and international newspapers, including the major tabloids.

E-books - this page gives information on other e-books you may find useful.

British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus: this is a corpus of student writing collected at the universities of Warwick, Reading and Oxford Brookes as part of the project 'An Investigation of Genres of Assessed Writing in British Higher Education'. The project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Councilan investigation of genres of assessed writing in British higher education

British Psychology Society

BUBL Link: Language - General : a catalogue of Internet resources.

Centre for Forensic Linguistics: based at Aston University, this is primarily a research and teaching centre. However, there are a few resources, such a articles and papers, available to download.

The Compleat Lexical Tutor: an excellent online collection of concordancing and other computer based tools that are used in the analysis of texts.

The Internet Grammar of English: a useful tool for anyone interested in English grammar, although mainly written with university undergraduates in mind.

An Introduction to Conversation Analysis: tutorial written by Charles Antaki.

Intute: Arts and Humanities provides access to over 18,000 freely available Web resources for the Arts and Humanities.

Lii.org or Librarian's Internet Index is a searchable, annotated directory leading you to the best online resources.

Subject Centre for Language, Linguistics and Areas Studies (L.L.A.S.): this is a publicly funded centre designed to assist people in the pursuit of language and linguistics. Contains a wide range of materials and information.

English Language and Communication : a guide to finding information (Word document)

Finding journals and journal articles for English Language and Communication (Word document)

Citing your references using the Harvard (Author-Date) system (Word document)

Information skills: getting started

Information skills: further research

EndNote: reference management software for assisting with studying, research and creating bibliographies