French, German, Italian & Spanish

Useful links

For quick access to high quality information for your assignments, try the links on these pages.

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Reading Lists

Got an assignment? Have you looked at the reading list to see lecturer recommendations?

Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations/Research Projects

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After looking at your online reading list, try these to help with your assignments

• Choosing keywords and sources - first steps

• Finding print and ebooks using the Library Catalogue

• Online sources to try first

• Foreign library catalogues for dissertation/research project work

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• Europeana

A cultural gateway into over 50 million digitised documents, maps, images and newspaper archives from across Europe. Thematic collections include World War I, fashion, industrial heritage, personal stories and sport. Special newspaper collections include issues covering the Paris World Exhibition of 1889, World War I and Eastern Europe in 1989.

• Karlsruhe Virtueller Katalog

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Search lots of German and Austrian Library catalogues in one go. This site also gives access to Italian libraries.

• REBIUN

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Search all Spanish University Library catalogues in one go.

• SUDOC

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Search all French University Library catalogues in one go.