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De Gruyter Online / E-Books

The following De Gruyter packages, among others, are licenced to the University Library Regensburg:

  • HSK Handbooks on Linguistics and Communication Science
  • Literature and Cultural Studies, Area Studies 2000-2009, 2016-2018
  • Linguistics, Literary Studies 2011-2012
  • Linguistics 2016-2017

Literature Online (LION)

The Literature Online database contains the electronic full texts of over 350,000 works of English and American literature (prose, poetry, drama).

It also provides access to:

  • Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920- (ABELL): next to the MLA the most important bibliographic database of English language and literature
  • Journals in electronic full text: approx. 430 journals in literature and cultural studies
  • 27 literary reference works
  • New Essays on the American Novel: the 38 volumes of the Cambridge University Press series
  • Cambridge Companions to Literature: over 300 volumes of this Cambridge University Press series
  • KnowledgeNotes: Short introductions to 230 works of world literature
  • Poets on Screen: about 900 video clips of authors reading their own poems or the other poets
  • Shakespeare Audio Plays: unabridged radio play versions of all 38 plays by Shakespeare
  • about 6,300 author biographies and 1,550 author bibliographies

Periodicals Index Online

The historical journal index Periodicals Index Online enables bibliographic research in about 6,000 journals from the humanities and social sciences using a single interface. The period covered ranges from 1665-2005 and includes publications (including reviews) in more than 37 subject areas and in over 60 languages and dialects. Full-text journals included in the Periodicals Archive Online are linked directly from the bibliographic entry.

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