Academic Sources with Non-English Content
English is the predominant language in the Sawyer Library's periodical databases, however a few newspaper and journal collections do contain some non-English content. Spanish, French, and German are the three languages with the best representation, and to a lesser extent, publications in other languages are also available.
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowThe Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publishes a variety of materials on countries and their economies, social conditions, and environment. The OECD search interface is available in French, as are many of the full text publications. Use the Advanced Search to find publications with multilingual summaries in languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Icelandic, Russian, and Turkish.
- Academic Search Complete (ASC)From the top blue banner, choose 'More' > 'Indexes' > then in the 'Browse an Index' drop down box, select 'Language' and click on 'Browse.' A list of all the languages contained in ASC is displayed, with a count of the number of articles available in that language. Note: relative to the 21,449,225 items written in English, there is not a great deal of material available in other languages. Approximately 160,000 items are in Spanish, 48,000 are in French, and 20,000 are in German. That said, a range of languages are represented, including Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Lithuanian, and Turkish.
- Business Source Complete (BSC)Like ASC above, Business Source Complete is a periodical database from EBSCO, and as such it will behave much the same as Academic Search Complete. From the top banner, choose 'More' > 'Indexes' > choose 'Language' from the drop down box, and click 'Browse.'
- ABI/INFORM CompleteRelative to its size, ABI-Inform does not appear to contain as many non-English sources as the EBSCO databases. To view a list of publications by language, choose 'Publications' > under 'Narrow publications list,' choose 'Language' > then 'more options' for a list of all the covered languages. Select the boxes of the appropriate language to view the publication titles.
