ENGL.3070: History of the English Language

Citations covering research in literature, linguistics, and folklore.
Coverage: 1980 - current

A key collection of both high-quality academic journals and high-quality art and history images. Now including Artstor, over 1.8 million images in art, architecture, humanities, and social sciences, with tools to view, present, and manage images. Most journals include full backfile, dating from the first issue, reaching back decades or even over 100 years. Most journals do not include the most recent 1-3 years. Covers topics across the disciplines, from arts and humanities to social sciences, sciences, and engineering.

Search many UML library databases and journals all in one spot -- a good place to start a broad search, with a very large collection of content across disciplines, but does not include everything we own, and does not include some advanced search features that are in specialized subject databases.

The OED is a main authority on the evolution of the English language, tracing the usage of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world. With definitions and etymology of words in the English language, including first known printed usage.