Subject guide: English

Resources for finding books and articles

• Education Collection
  Useful for finding research on language teaching and learning, among other things. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Education Database and ERIC. 

• Linguistics Collection
  Useful for finding linguistic research. Also good for locating literature on language teaching and learning. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts and Linguistics Database.

• MLA International Bibliography
  Database for finding research on literature and linguistics. Also useful for locating literature on language teaching and learning. 

• Scopus
  Database for finding research in different subjects. 

• Seeker
  Search service for searching in the university library's collection.

• 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.

• Seeker
  Search service for searching in the university library's collection.

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 among other things.

• The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
  Useful for finding synonyms.

• 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.

• 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. You can also try using an AI tool to find synonyms.