Oxford Brookes UniversityResearchers and staff in Modern Languages
Subject specific help
Your Subject Librarian for Languages is Joanna Cooksey. Staff and researchers are welcome to contact Joanna for help with:
- Provision of Library materials for your students.
- Help and advice on your own use of the Library and your particular information needs, whether for curriculum design, your own research or keeping up to date with new resources within your subject sphere.
If you are unfamiliar with using electronic information sources, or just want to keep up to date with new resources, your Subject Librarian will be pleased to arrange a session with you to explore the most useful resources available in your subject area. If you are new to Oxford Brookes, please do make contact with your Subject Librarian for details of what resources and services are available.
The following guides give details of resources available in the field of Modern Languages for Brookes staff and students:
- The Guides to Language Studies lists a range of subject-specific information sources.
- Check the Languages Web pages for details of relevant databases, electronic journals and Internet sites
General help
The Library Web site has a section devoted to Library services for researchers which contains a wide range of information about services and resources that can support you in your research, such as:
- Keeping up to date
- Open access repositories
- Document delivery
- Using other libraries
- Special Collections and Archives
You may also find the following links useful:
- Electronic
Enquiry Service- email us if you have a query.
- Programme of training
sessions tailored to meet the needs of researchers.
- Off-campus
services and facilities for Brookes staff and students
- For help with referencing see the guide Getting to grips with referencing: using the Brookes Harvard style
- Information about EndNote and EndNote Web. These are services which allow you to collect, store and manage your own collection of references and create bibliographies in your written work.
- Library Guides Online includes Staff guide to Library services and Research student guide to Learning Resources
Useful resources
The following databases are useful for finding out about previous research in your subject area and for keeping up-to-date with current research:
Index
to Theses
This is a comprehensive listing of all UK higher degree theses.
Web
of Science
Web database consisting of the 3 Citation Indexes: Arts and Humanities
Citation Index (1975-); Social Science Citation Index (1970-) and
Science Citation Index Expanded (1970-). The database covers a wide
range of sources and is updated weekly. Abstracts are included for
many records. Web of Science is a particularly useful source for
finding out about previous research in your subject area and for
keeping up to date with current research.
ZETOC
(British Library's Electronic Table of Contents: ETOC) Web database
Covers current journals and conference proceedings in most subjects.
You can also subscribe to the ZETOC Alert service and have e-mail
bulletins when material relevant to your subject is added to the
database.
JSTOR
Archive of full-text articles from a range of academic journals
in a wide range of humanities and social sciences disciplines.
In contrast to most other e-journal collections which can help you
keep up to date with current research, the JSTOR archive holds the
complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting
with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
It offers scanned images of journal issues as they were originally
designed, printed, and illustrated. New titles and disciplines are
being added regularly to the archive.
The Library has access to the full JSTOR Collection. For a list of the journal titles covered in these collections, click on About JSTOR on the JSTOR home page and choose the top link Currently Available Collections.
Note that JSTOR aims to maintain an electronic archive of core scholarly journals – it does not cover current journal issues. JSTOR’s agreements with publishers mean that the collection does not usually give access to issues which are less than 3-5 years old.