European Languages, Culture & Society: electronic resources
Library resources for language studies
The classification scheme used by the Library is the Dewey Decimal scheme. See below for useful class marks/locations for books, journals and audiovisual material.
- English as a foreign language [pdf]
- French studies [pdf]
- German studies [pdf]
- Spanish and Latin American studies [pdf]
There is a reference section on each floor of the library. Reference books relating to the language, anthropology, politics and economics of a country will be found on the first floor. Those relating to literature, art, music, film, theatre and history together with foreign language newspapers will be found on the second floor. Dictionaries are available in the reference sections on both floors.
Foreign language DVDs and videos are held in the audiovisual collection on the second floor. Check the library catalogue for their exact location.
Periodicals (journals) are arranged by classification number on both floors of the library. Those with numbers 000 to 699 cover psychology, social sciences, anthropology, politics, economics, education and languages and are on the first floor and those with numbers 700 to 999 cover arts, film, theatre, music, literature, theatre, history and geography and are on the second floor.
On-line indexes and abstracts
Provide facilities for searching for journal articles, usually using your Goldsmiths IT username and password, on a particular subject or subject area and are therefore a very useful way of getting up-to-date information.
- Education Journal Indexes - British Education Index 1975-present, ERIC (US) 1966-present, Australian Education Index 1979-present. From Goldsmiths only.
- ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) - education-related literature, 1966-current.
- British Humanities Index (BHI) - humanities index, including history and philosophy, 1962-current.
- ISI Citation Index - Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science Citation Index. 1970 to present.
- MLA (Modern Languages Association) International Bibliography - worldwide literature, linguistics, theatre, customs and folklore, communications bibliographic database.