• Documents in the library
• Journals
• Encyclopedias
• Databases specialised
• Internet resources of language and literature:
  • general
  • Spanish
  • Catalan
  • French
  • English
  • Classical

Documents in the library
You should search for the books, journals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, theses, audiovisual materials, etc. in the libraries catalogue of the University of Valencia Trobes. You can search by any word in the registry, by author, or by subject (always in Valencian language). For example:

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Journals
Electronic journals subscribed by the library also can be searched by title, subject and subcategories. Click here to see the list of journals on Languages and Literature. For searching more journals or full text articles you can use the search engine Recolecta. You can also search in Dialnet, which offers summaries of journals and in some cases full texts.
Journals published by the University of Valencia

• Anglogermanica online
• Quaderns de filologia. Estudis lingüístics
• Quaderns de filologia. Estudis literaris
  ...and more (edited by UV)

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Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition):reference source of any particular aspect of linguistics and its applications.
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection: bilingual dictionaries and multi-thematic collection of encyclopedias, including among them some dedicated to literature.
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Omniglot: language encyclopedias and writing systems.
• Acronym Finder, finds any word acronym, or meaning or location.

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Specialised databases These are the databases accessible from the website of the library where you can find information on language and literature:

• Traces: a bibliographic database of Catalan language and literature, produced by the Grup d'Estudis Contemporary Catalan Literature (GELCC) UAB, with 87.000 records (April 2013) and is free public access.
• BILICAME: Corpus bibliogràfic digital de la literatura catalana de l'Edat Mitjana. This database aims at developing a comprehensive digital bibliographic corpus of medieval Catalan literature, free online consultation and will be updated annually.
• Boletín Bibliográfico de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval. It includes all publications (editions, critical literature in book, article and digital) on issues concerning them Spanish, Catalan and Galician-Portuguese tradicions.
• BITRA: Bibliografía de Interpretación y Traducción. This database contains over 63,000 referencais of books, articles, theses, etc. about this research area.
• In Principio: Incipit Index of Latin Texts: contains 1 million of incipits which cover Latin literature in all genres, from the pre-classic period until the Renaissance.
• Teatre Espanyol del Segle d'Or (TESO): fundamental plays from 16th and 17th centuries, in publications preferably collected by the authors or under their direction. It contains more than 800 written pieces by 16 playwrights. The selection of publication has tended to contemporary authors, avoiding the factitious ones and it gathers the publications scattered in different European libraries. Each work is transcribed in its totality, including the preliminary: approvals, censorship, privileges, etc.
• Early English Books Online (EEBO): 135,000 titles published in England between 1473 and 1700: monographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, sheet music, maps, posters, etc.
• Early English Prose Fiction: collection of over 200 works between 1500 and 1700 of the genre of prose fiction.
• Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare:the 11 publications more important from the First Folio to the Cambridge publication of 1863-66. And 24 contemporary publications of apocryphal selected works and works related and more of 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques of the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries.
• Eighteenth Century Fiction: 96 complete fiction works between 1700 and 1780, of English writers.
• English drama: collection of over 3, 900 works in verse and prose, which show the development of English drama from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.
• Bible in English: contains 20 versions of the Bible, and other sacred texts. The content has been selected in order to cover a complete chronological period for researchers from different disciplines.
• Literary theory: full text database on history of literary theory and criticism. In addition it also includes works written in English that were previously written in other languages, but which are significantly related with English and American traditions, or which have influenced the theoretical contemporary debate in the English Speaking world.
• Patrología latina:electronic version of the first publication of the Patrologia Latina by Jacques-Paul Migney, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. It includes the works of the Church Fathers from Tertulliano in the 200AD to the death of the Pope Innocent III in 1216.
• Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL4): more than 900 works of Latin Literature from the editions of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana.
• Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: dictionary of Latin language, which covers since the origins from the same to Isidore of Seville († 636). You should install the programme ICA Citrix Client for viewing this dictionary.
• ADMYTE: Digital archive of manuscripts and Spanish texts: it contains full semi-paleographic transcripts containing 290 articles of the Medieval Spain, preserved in manuscripts and leaflets, incunabulum and post-incunabulum. You should borrow the CDs and install it at your own computer.
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: ancient Greek texts between VIII century b. C. to 1453 that have survived until today.
• MLA International Bibliography: it includes bibliographical records of books and articles on modern languages, literature and linguistics published in more of 4,400 specialised periodicals. Also, it includes a selection of monographs, work documents, conference proceedings, bibliographies, etc.
• Bibliografía de la Literatura Española. It is a comprehensive bibliography of all documentation related to Literature in Spanish published in any language. It covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, congress proceedings and other miscellaneous material.
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: references and summaries of international literature about linguistics and related sciences. It covers all aspects of language studies including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It provides abstracts of articles and book reviews of over 1,500 journals, summaries of books, book chapters and theses.
• Textes de la Renaissance: Collections Honoré Champion: full-text collection of great texts of European Renaissance of literature, philosophy, arts and sciences. It contains the collection Textes de la Renaissance, Etudes et essais sud la Renaissance, and the Dictionnarie of the Langue Francaise du 16 siécle d’Edmond Huguet.
• Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL): bibliographical references of books, journal articles, theses, etc. specialised in German language and literature. 
• Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLG)Critical dictionary of contemporary German literature.

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Internet resources of language and literature: general, spanish, catalan, french, english and classical

LANGUAGE AND GENERAL LITERATURE
Linguistics

• WALS: The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a database with the structural properties (phonological, grammatical, lexical) of language, compiled from description materials (such as the references sources of grammar) by a team of 55 authors (most of them authorities on the subject). WALS online is a joint effort of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Max Planck Digital Library.
• ILoveLanguages: collection of website resources related to language and literature, addressed to linguists and lexicographers.
• Lingu@net europa: resource for language learning developed by 24 European organisations. Selection of over 3,700 links of idiomatic resources, which respond to quality criteria that guarantee their linguistic correctness.
• Internet Public Library-Language and lingüistics: classified links of Internet Public Library directory. 
• Omniglot: the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages 

Literature

• Internet Public Library-Language and lingüistics:classified links of Internet Public Library directory. Literature

Dictionaries and translating programmes

• Your Dictionary.com:  website dedicated exclusively to all type of dictionaries: specialised, languages, thematical, etc.
• LOGOS: multilingual translation website, it includes a multilingual dictionary with over 7 million terms.
• Foreignword:  dictionaries and translation tools of 73 languages.
• AULEX: online collection of brief vocabularies, for Spanish-speaking people, of 23 unpopular languages (Esperanto, Zapotec, Quechua, Totonac, etc.)
• Tradukka: multilingual translator that supports 52 languages. The list is constantly growing.
• Text to speech: pronunciation of 25 languages.

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Digital and virtual libraries

• Internet Public Library- Online Texts: links of virtual libraries in the Literature section of Internet Public Library directory.
• Proyecto Gutenberg: the first and largest library of electronic texts in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Chinese and many other languages.
• Online Text Collections in Western European Literature: resources and websites of literary texts classified by languages.
• Somni: digital historical collection of the University of Valencia: you can consult all the incunabula, a selection of printings published between the 16th and 19th centuries, the collection of posters of the Spanish Civil War, etc.

News

• SINC: information and scientific news service: scientific news website organised in 7 areas: Natural Sciences, Technology, Biomedicine and Health, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Art and Humanities, Social and Law Sciences and Science Policy. In the section of Art and Humanities there are subsections of Linguistics and Humanities and Arts. 

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LANGUAGE AND SPANISH LITERATURE
General resources

• Portal del Hispanismo: joint initiative of the Cervantes Institute and the Ministry of Culture. It provides current information on Hispanic studies in the world. It contains three large Hispanic databases: Hispanics, Spanish departments and associations.
• Elcastellano.org: the website of Spanish language: website supported by the Antonio Nebrija Cultural Association. It offers digital dictionaries and language rules, translation space, Spanish digital courses for foreigners and Spanish people, discussion lists, forums and debates, literary websites, debates about language, etc.
• Wikilengua del español: open and collaborative space for sharing information on standards, use and style of Spanish.
• Corpus of Historical Spanish Texts: database of Old and Present Spanish reflected in texts since 1200. You can search by word, text and dates. It contains for example, from the Fueros of Castile until the Antología de cuentistas argentinos (Anthology of Argentine storytellers).
• Hispanomedievalismo: online resources for academic research of Spanish Middle Ages literature and language.
• Parnaseo: literature website of the University of Valencia, which contains numerous resources, such as the specialised journal Lemir, critical editions of Medieval and Renaissance texts, the journal Tirant, and the journal of Medieval wisdom literature Memorabilia.
• Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico: directed by José Luis Gómez-Martínez, professor emeritus of Hispanic Essay in the Department of Romance Languages in the University of Georgia, with the objective of disseminating the Hispanic culture. It has two databases: essay-writers and philosophers works, and Anthology of Hispanic essays.
• Eldígoras: hojas de lengua, literatura y artes gráficas: website about language, literature and creation in general, with texts, news, images and links selection.
• Hispanic Literature: this website revises Hispanic literature from its beginnings. It analyses poetry, prose and drama periods. It is in English.
• PhiloBiblon: is a bio-bibliographical database of texts written in the various Romance vernaculars of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. It consists of four separate bibliographies, each of which has its own home page:
  • BETA-Bibliografía Española de Textos Antiguos: medieval texts in Spanish.
  • BIPA-Bibliografía de la Poesía Áurea: Golden Age Poetry in Spanish (XVI-XVII).
  • BITAGAP-Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses: medieval texts in Galician, Galician-Portuguese, and Portuguese.
  • BITECA-Bibliografia de Textos Catalans Antics: medieval texts in Catalan.
• Corpus Val.Es.Co: specialized and analyzed samples of conversational Spanish portal.
• Bibliografía de la literatura española: bibliography on current Spanish Literature, with bibliographic references of works, editions, translations of originals and studies, appeared since 1980 in books or in periodical publications, tributes, conference proceedings, miscellanies, etc.; edited in Spain or abroad.

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Dictionaries and translating programmes

• Diccionarios de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua: you can consult online the Diccionario de la lengua española (Spanish language dictionary) and the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas ( Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts). 
• Elcastellano.org- diccionarios: collection and classification of online dictionaries developed by the Antonio Nebrija Cultural Association. Spanish, bilingual, technical and regional dictionaries.
• Jergas de habla hispana: jargons of different Spanish-speaking countries. The search can be made by terms or countries.
• Dudas Fundéu: collection of linguistic comments and doubts clarifications on the use of Spanish language, developed by Fundéu: neologisms, anthroponyms, place names, gentilicios, transcriptions, translations, barbarisms, abbreviations and misuse.
• DPDE: dictionary of Spanish discourse particles.

Virtual and digital libraries

• Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: extensive project of digital edition of bibliographic, documentary and Spanish and Latin American criticism heritage. You can search by authors, institutions, genres, centuries, etc.
• Hispanic Digital Library: project of the Spanish National Library, which provides free and open access to thousands of digitized documents, among them the printed books of the 15th and 19th centuries and manuscripts. It has a collection of linguistics and literature and a selection of links of other three Spanish digital collections.
• Proyecto Cervantes: based in the Department of Classical and Modern languages of the Texas A&M University. It publishes different electronic editions of the complete works of Cervantes, studies and translations about his work and photo archive of the author and his work.
• El Aleph: digital library of Spanish texts. You can search by title, author or subject.
• Teatro del siglo de oro: web portal of printed texts and manuscripts of the Spanish Golden Age, created in collaboration with the Spanish National Library and the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library.
• Palabra virtual: web portal of printed texts and manuscripts of the Spanish Golden Age, created in collaboration with the Spanish National Library and the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library.
• Comedias, entremeses, textos y más: website of the Association for Hispanic Classical Teathre of Arizona, which contains a series of comedies of the Spanish Golden Age.

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Organisations and Institutions

• Instituto Cervantes: web portal of the public institution created by the Spanish state in 1991 for promoting and teaching Spanish language and for the dissemination of Spanish and Latin American culture. Thematic sections: culture, language and teaching, libraries, web portals, headquarters in the world.
• Real Academia Española: pàgina de la RAE que proporciona informació sobre consultes lingüístiques i suggeriments, consulta virtual de diccionaris, catàleg de publicacions, i dona accés als bancs de dades CORDE (Corpus Diacrónico del Español) i CREA (Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual).
• Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA): pàgina amb informació general sobre l'associació, el congrés nacional que organitza i accés als sumaris de la revista RESLA.
• Promotora española de lingüística: organització que col.labora amb varies entitats per a impulsar el desenvolupament lingüístic de les llengües minoritàries, tant en Espanya com en tot el món.  

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CATALAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
General Resources

• Traces: a Catalan website: the web portal TRACES is an access point to the different initiatives of GELCC (Study group on Contemporary Catalan Literature). TRACES contains bibliographic databases on Catalan language and literatures, and other databases.
• Llengua.info: web portal of linguistic resources of the universities of the Joan Vives Institute, with information about training, linguist and terminological support, specialised mailing lists, legislation, grants and scholarships an linguistic policy.

Dictionaries and translating programmes

• Softcatala: translator, correcting, dictionaries, etc.
• Optimot: linguistic information search-engine developed by the Catalan government that helps to solve problems about Catalan language.
• Apertium: system of Spanish-Catalan translation, which allows translating files, internet websites, email and texts.

Virtual and Digital libraries

• Biblioteca virtual Joan Lluis Vives: project of the Joan Lluís Vives Network that is part of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library. It offers digital publications of the most representative works of Catalan, Valencian and Balearic works. It has institutional, thematic and authors web portals.
• Biblioteca virtual Miguel de Cervantes- Lengua catalana: sub-catalogue of the Miguel de Cervantes that searches Catalan electronic texts at different virtual libraries simultaneously.
• LletrA: virtual space of Catalan literature. Access to different resources about Catalan literature, created by the UOC.
• Rialc: Catalan poetry collection of the 14th and 15th centuries, developed by the Universitá di Napoli with the collaboration of the UAB and the University of Girona. In Italian language.

Organisations and Institutions

• Institut d'Estudis Catalans: It has a philological section that plays the role of the Catalan Language Academy.
• Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua: institution created by the Valencian Government, which aims to identify, to determine and to develop the linguistic regulations of the Valencian language.
• Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana: the objective of the IIFV is the linguistic and literary study of the Valencian, within the general context of Catalan language and literature. The members are the University of Valencia, the University of Alacant and the Universitat Jaume I.
• Institut Ramon Llull: the Ramon Llull Institute aims the external dissemination of Catalan language and culture which is expressed in all its modalities, materials and forms of expression, as well as its dissemination and teaching outside the linguistic domain.
• Consorci per a la Normalització Lingüística: is an entity created from the common will of the Valencian Government and numerous City Councils, County councils and Provincial Councils with the objective of facilitating the knowledge, use and dissemination of Catalan language in al spheres.

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FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
General resources

• Liensutiles.org: extensive collection of resources for learning French language.
• Portail de la langue française et de la francophonie: open and collaborative site for sharing information about French language: grammar, spelling, pronunciation, regionalisms, etc.
• Études litteraires: interesting website on French language and literature. Literature by genres, centuries, authors, literary texts, grammar, stylistics, rhetoric, Old French, etc.
• Bien ecrire.org: resources and exercises for learning French language: grammar, spelling, conjugation, vocabulary, etc.
• Dictionnaire de la langue française des 16e. siècle E. Huguet: its contains the most important dictionaries of this century.

Virtual and digital libraries

• ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle: French texts searchable by author or text. Wesite developed by members of the Association des Bibliophiles Universels.
• Biblioteca virtual Miguel de Cervantes- Lengua francesa: sub-catalogue of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library that searches electronic texts in French at different virtual libraries simultaneously.
• Projecte Gutenberg- Secció francés:  sub-catalogue of the digital librabry created by the Professor Michael Hart.
• ClicNet: search-engine of French cultural and literary virtual texts.
• Athena: Virtual library of French texts.
• Tout Molière: site of reference about the works of Molière. It contains full texts of his works, dictionary of terms and expressions, bibliography about the author, etc.
• Études et essais sur la Renaissance: collection of eight critical editions of the main texts of Renaissance Europe, in literature, philosophy, science and art

Organisations and Institutions

• Acadèmie française
• Institut de Linguistique Francaise
• DGLF Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France
• ATILF Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française
• Office Québécois de la Langue Francaise

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 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
General resources

• Internet Public Library- English: classified links by subjects of the Internet Public Library directory. Linguistics and language and Literature
• English Pronunication Online: a commented classified compilation of a wide range of sites about pronunciation, listening and speaking skills. You can find here more than 100 direct links to free web pages that we consider can be of great help to researches, teachers and students alike.
• LION LIterature ONline: more than 300,000 full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, along with online criticism and the reference library
• Merriam webster dictionary

Organisations and institutions

• Linguistic Society of America: institutional website with information about the association, publications, interesting links, etc.
• MLA Online: website of the  Modern Language Association. 
• Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB): it offers general information about the association, the annual convention, papers, publications, committees and commissions, etc.

Virtual and digital libraries

• Luminarium: anthology of english literature: Medieval, Renaissance, 17th century and 18th century.
• Project Gutenberg- English: the first and largest library of electronic texts in different languages, among them in English. Searchable by author, title or language.
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts: texts of North American and English literature, and Oriental Philosophy. Searchable by author, title and tag.
• Eighteenth-Century E-Text: English texts of the 18th century, listed by author.
• The Camelot Project: digital library of English texts of Arthurian literature, since Middle Ages until 20th century.

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CLASSICAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Dictionaries, encyclopedies, atlas

• Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines de Daremberg
• Enciclopedia mítica
• Suda On Line: byzantine lexicography

General resources

• Resources of classical world: selected resources done by Cristóbal Macías and José Luis Jiménez, from University of Málaga.
• Literary resources on the Net- Classical and Biblical: selected resources by Jack Lynch from Rutgers University.
• Online resources - Classics studies: selected resources by Williams College.
• Electronics resources for classicists: the second generation. Selected resources by Maria C. Pantelia from University of California.
• Lucerna: critical guide about classic and ancien filology by Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Organisms and institutions

• Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos
• Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo

Virtual and digital libraries

• Acta Sanctorum: ccontains the online version of the printed text of the Sanctorum Act, published in 68 vol. by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. They are documents that examine the lives of the saints, organized according to the day of each party, including all the introductory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes.
• The latin library: virtual library with ancien texts in latin, you can find by authors.
• Library of ancient texts online: library of classical texts, you can search by author or title.
• Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: latin literarture, you can search by author, title, genre and date.
• Perseus Digital Library: digital library of history, literature and culture form Greek and Roman world.
• Classics Studies: links directory to virtual libraries of classical texts, by University of Florida.
• ManuscriptaCSIC: digitalized manuscripts en Jewish, Arabic, and Aljamian language from CSIC XIII to XX century copies.ç
• Bibliotheca Augustana: digital library with texts in several languages; it's organised by linguistic field with alphabetical and chronological indexes, and links to others interesting resources.
• Perseus Collection: digital library with Latin and Greek texts, and its translations to English, complemented by images, encyclopedies, etc.

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