ENC 1101 Resources
Composition I (Foreign Reviews of Texts)

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

General Internet Information

Newspaper Sources:

LexisNexisAcademic provides abstracts or selected full text articles from many U.S. & international newspapers. 

• Step 1: Select a news category - World News

• Step 2: Select a news source - choose a region of the world.  Select the link for Source List next to the region selected; it will bring up a list of sources to be searched.  Select appropriate titles from the list.  To assist you in identifying newspapers from a specific country, open another browser window to consult:

• LEXIS-NEXIS Source Locator retrieves information about the 36,000 sources in the full version of their product.  UCF users have abridged access (LexisNexis Academic), which provides full text or abstracts from approximately 5,600 of the 36,000 sources. Select Publication Types: Newspaper and Regions of Coverage: [specific country].  NOTE:  Only 15% of the titles available in the full LexisNexis database are available in LexisNexis Academic.

• Conduct your search.

• Another option in Step 1 is to select the news category "Non-English Language News", which provides Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, & Spanish sources. NOTE:  The search terms used must also be in the non-English language.  No translation feature currently exists in LexisNexis Academic.

Other resources for newspapers from other countries:

• International News Archives on the Web
• Online Newspapers (Internet Public Library) provides links for other U.S. and foreign newspapers
• Kidon Media-Link provides links to over 15,000 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.
• The Paperboy provides links to U.S. and foreign newspapers.
• The Flying Inkpot's World News Links provides links to U.S. and foreign news sources.

Translation Sources:

• AltaVista: Babel Fish Translation will machine translate a web page or a block of text to English from Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, & Spanish.
• Freetranslation.com will machine translate a block of text to English from Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, & Spanish.
• Google Language Tools will machine translate a web page or a block of text to English from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, & Spanish.
• SYSTRAN: Language Translation Technology - will machine translate a block of 150 words to English from Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, & Swedish.
• TravLang's Translation Dictionaries will translate individual words to English from 35 languages, Afrikaans to Zulu.
• Bilingual Dictionaries (xreferplus) - French, German, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
• Lexicool.com - Directory of Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries

• iLoveLanguages - "Your Guide to Languages on the Web"

Movie Sources:

• Internet Movie Database - Power Search can be searched by country of origin, filming location, language, & year and filtered to require awards or reviews or eliminate TV & direct-to-video. Can also browse films by country and films by language. Information about individual movies includes dates of release in each country.
• Screen World includes annual list of Foreign Films Released in the United States [REF PN 1993.3.D3]
• International Motion Picture Almanac [REF PN 1993.3.I55]
• Variety International Film Guide 2003 [REF PN 1993.3.I544 2003]

• various guides to films from countries and regions of the world [REF PN 1993.5...]

Other Review Resources:

• Book Reviews: How to Find
• Books in Depth - "Your direct link to Book Reviews in Newspapers, Periodicals and leading websites around the world"

• Complete Review - also provides links to book review sites

UCF Library Home Page provides links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:

• ComAbstracts provides abstracts for articles from 50 professional communication journals.
• Communication Studies provides full-text of 16 journals, covering Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete indexes articles from communications publications. CMMC is the merged databases CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
• Ethnic Newswatch - a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
• Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
• Language & Literature databases
• Language & Literature- Reference Books: Online Versions & Excerpts
• World News Connection provides full text English-language translations or summaries of newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, conference proceedings, and reports. Strong coverage of local media sources. Created by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).
• World Press Encyclopedia - "This comprehensive survey of press and electronic media covers over 200 countries and their systems. Arranged alphabetically by country, entries include overview and background, economic framework, general characteristics, number and type of media, press laws, censorship issues, state-press relations, education and training in journalism, and more."

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