Below you'll find a selection of resources you can use for your world languages study and research. Use the tabs to navigate to databases, scholarly journals, books, and freely available Web resources.
Kaufman Library provides access to many databases that can help with your language research. In addition to the those highlighted below, you can access our full list of databases using our Databases A-Z list (link below).
Language Databases (includes foreign language music and film)
This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Access to more than 14,000 streaming videos: films, documentaries, and must-see movies.
Multidisciplinary Databases
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
Delivers more than 85,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study, including archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic and multicultural studies, food science and technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion and theology, women's studies, and other fields.
Multidisciplinary Reference
Kaufman Library provides access to many journals both individually and through our databases that can help with your language research. In addition to the those highlighted below, you can access our full list of electronic journals using the link below.
Language Journals
Includes journals covering language learning and teaching foreign languages
The link below will take you directly to books about languages in the Kaufman Library collection. You'll also be able to edit the search (limit by date, eBook vs. physical book, and more).
Library Catalog Search - Language Books
eBook Collections
You can also search our eBook collections directly instead of through the library catalog. Below are links to our eBook platforms.
University of Michigan Press is a leading publisher and distributor of books and digital projects in the humanities and social sciences that are aligned with the strengths of its parent institution. Areas of particular focus are performing arts; classical studies; political science; American studies (especially disability and class studies); Asian and African studies. The Press makes most books available electronically and provides direct access to libraries through its own publishing platform, Fulcrum.
Access to over 40,000 eBooks published by Cambridge University Press.
Foreign Language Resources on the Web
The resources in this section are freely available on the Web.
