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English Studies

The Luxemburg Learning Center offers a selection of works and criticism by major English and American writers, especially authors currently taught or researched at the University, academic works on the English language, and a collection of general linguistics and literature. All printed materials as well as electronic resources can be found in the catalogue a-z.lu.

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Subject librarian : Simone Moyen

Organisation

Location

The English Studies collection is located mainly on -2 in the Luxemburg Learning Center :

  • English Literature (fiction and criticism) from the Middle Ages to the present day
  • American Literature (fiction and criticism) from the 17th century to the present day
  • General Literature (criticism) and rhetoric
  • English Language and Old English
  • General Linguistics
  • Journals

Information about Course Readings

A part of the collection is located in the Stacks on -2 at the Learning Center.

Classification

The signage is as follows :

  • English Literature : 820
  • English authors and their critical appraisal are classified by period and alphabetical order : 82/1-92
  • American Literature : 810
  • American authors and their critical appraisal are classified by period and alphabetical order : 81/1-52
  • General Literature : 800
  • English Language : 420
  • Linguistics : 400 et 410

The older part of the collection in English Literature is signed according to a former classification (call numbers from L 10001 to L 17000) and is located in the Stacks.

Journals

Journals : PER are located in the display shelves at the beginning of the collection, classified alphabetically by title, and in the closed stacks on -1 at the LLC.

 

Electronic Resources

The following databases are available via a-z.lu and require the user id and password received when you registered at the Luxembourg Learning Centre. (get information about training).

Looking for ebooks?

BLLDB is the online version of the "Bibliography of Linguistic Literature". It is one of the major sources of information on the internet for general linguistics with all its neighbouring disciplines and subdomains as well as English, German and Romance linguistics.

British Periodicals provides access to full-text periodicals published from the late 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The subjects covered are literature, philosophy, history, science, social sciences, music, art, theater, archeology and architecture.

CAIRN donne accès à l'ensemble du catalogue des collections Que sais-je? (PUF) et Repères (La Découverte). Les nouveaux titres sont intégrés au maximum un mois après leur publication papier. Le portail Cairn.info regroupe actuellement près de 200 revues en sciences humaines et sociales issues de plus de quarante éditeurs.

Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.

Cambridge Journals (accessible only inside the buildings of the University)

Credo Reference is a general reference solution offering more than 500 highly-regarded titles including encyclopaedias, dictionaries and covering subjects such as Art, Bilinguals, Biography, Business, Conversions, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Geography, History, Language, Law, Literature, Medicine, Music, Philosophy & Psychology, Quotations, Religion, Science, Social Sciences, Technology

De Gruyter e-books collection

Érudit is a distribution platform that gives access to documents in the fields of humanities and social sciences as well as science: scientific journals, books, proceedings, thesises and other documents and data. The majority of texts in Erudit is available via open access. There is a subscription required for all Journals published within the last two years.

DigiZeitschriften stellt deutsche Kernzeitschriften von großer wissenschaftlicher Bedeutung für den direkten Nutzerzugriff über Internet bereit. Die Zeitschriften stammen aus folgenden Fachgebieten: Anglistik, Bibliothekswesen, Geowissenschaften, Germanistik, Geschichte, Naturwissenschaften, Neuere Philologien, Rechtswissenschaft, Romanistik, Soziologie, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Mathematik.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.

La base de données bibliographique MLA (International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America) donne accès à plus de 2 millions de références bibliographiques issus de revues, monographies, actes de congrès et autres publications scientifiques, en partie avec accès au Full Text.

La base de données Munzinger online donne entre autre accès à la version numérique du Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, ainsi que du Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur : KLfG (également disponibles sur papier), qui recensent des essais biographiques et critiques sur des milliers d’auteurs ainsi que des bibliographies très exhaustives.

Oxford Handbooks Online is an outstanding collection of the best Handbooks areas across many different subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, the Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.

Oxford Journals Collection offers access to abstracts and full texts of e-journals.
Oxford University Press, founded in 1688, is a specialist publisher with a focus on humanities, law, social sciences and STM subjects.

Oxford Scholarship Online offers full text access to new Oxford books in Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Physics, and Psychology.
Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level (free to non-subscribed users), and up to 400 new and recently-published books are added each year.
est un portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales, a pour vocation la numérisation et la mise en ligne des collections rétrospectives d'un vaste corpus de revues françaises en sciences humaines et sociales.

Routledge Handbooks Online features collections in the following areas: Archaeology & Classics, Asian Studies, Business & Economics, Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture, Criminal Justice & Criminology, Education, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Social Care, History, Law, Linguistics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Security Studies, Sociology, Sport & Leisure, Tourism, Hospitality & Events Management

SAGE Journals Online donne accès aux revues scientifiques publiées par Sage

Taylor & Francis is a provider of specialist information to the global academic & scientific, professional and commercial communities via publishing, events and performance improvement. The journal collection Social Science and Humanity (SSH-library) encompasses more than 900 journals and offers direct access to the full text article (from year's issues 1997) from the publishers Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press.

Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, 9000 books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

Britannica Online Encyclopaedia

The Oxford English Dictionary Online OED is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.

Credo Reference offers access to ecyclopaedias and dictionaries in English Literature.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online is a free online dictionary with translations to- and from English.

Collins Dictionary is a dictionary for English or bilingual word reference, plus thesauruses.  

The Literary Encyclopedia is a constantly evolving and updating repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural history. All the articles are solicited by invitation from specialist scholars in higher education institutions all over the world, refereed and approved by subject editors in our Editorial Board. The LE is thus uniquely selective, reliable and authoritative.

More information about Consortium Luxembourg

University course page

Bachelor en Cultures Européennes - English studies (académique)

 

Interesting sites

The Project Gutenberg offers thausands of digitized texts, free of copyright (beware of the quality of the reference information!)

Luminarium is an online anthology of English Literature from the Middle Ages to Restoration (texts, critics, bibliographies, study guides...)

The Internet Shakespeare Editions publishes high quality materials on Shakespeare's works, his plays in performance and his life and times.

The Victorian Web and The Postcolonial Web offer a global overview of the authors and their lives, cultural context and great topics of both periods.

The website of the British Council offers up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers, including biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prize information and photographs.

American Memory is a Portal of digitized primary resources related to the history and culture of the United States. Many digital heritage collections (texts, photos, audio, videos ...) of the Library of Congress. Multidisciplinary.