Subject guide: English

Resources for finding books and articles

• DART-Europe
  Find full-text dissertations from a number of universities in Europe.

• Education database
  Full-text database for literature on education and teaching.

• ERIC
  ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a database of education research and information.

• EThOS
  Database containing information on doctoral theses from universities in the UK. You need to register on their website to access theses in full text.

• JSTOR
  A collection of academic journals and books.

• Linguistics Collection
  Database for finding literature in linguistics and language-related disciplines. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts and Linguistics Database.

• MLA International Bibliography
  Useful for finding research on literature and linguistics, among other things.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (in Web of Science)
  Contains information on dissertations and student theses from universities around the world. You can limit the search to "Doctoral" if you only want to find dissertations.

• Scopus
  Scopus helps users find trusted research in different subjects. 

• WorldCat
  A catalogue providing information on titles held by more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. You can use Library of Congress Subject Headings to find subject terms to search on in WorldCat.

Resources for finding specific books and articles

• Google Scholar
  Useful for finding specific journal articles, dissertations, and academic books in full text.

• Summon
  Search service for searching in the university library's collection. Useful for finding specific ebooks, printed books, and journal articles in full text.

Resources for finding student theses  

• DiVA
  Find student theses submitted at several Swedish universities.

• Essays.se
  Find student theses in full text submitted at Swedish universities.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

• Britannica Academic
  Consists of Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster (dictionary and thesaurus), among other things.

• NE:s ordböcker
  Includes for example NE's Swedish-English/English-Swedish dictionary.

• Oxford English Dictionary
  An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of more than 500,000 words and phrases from across the English-speaking world.

• The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus

• Oxford Reference
  The database offers a huge range of dictionaries and subject reference works, including Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language and The Oxford Companion to English Literature.

      More dictionaries can be found on shelf Fe(x) at Dalarna University Library.