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Modern Languages & Linguistics

Primary Source collections

Primary Source Collection guide
Explore this online guide to discover digitized archival and primary source collections, such as historical newspapers, periodicals, and manuscript collections.

Online collections

Europeana
Multi-lingual online collection of more than 4 million digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections. Funded by the European Commission and the member states.
The Endangered Languages Project
This website offers information, data, and map visualizations of over 3400 endangered languages in the world.
World Digital Library
Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

Newspaper collections

National Newspapers (Proquest)
Coverage: Full Text
Indexes, abstracts and provides full text for the following: Baltimore Sun: 1990 - present, Christian Science Monitor: 1980 - present, New York Times + Book Review & Magazine: 1980 - present, NYT in Espanol, 2020-, Wall Street Journal: 1984 - present, Washington Post: 1987 - present
Does not include pictures or graphics
Newsbank
Newsbank is a full-text news resource consisting over 11,000+ local, regional, national and international sources (6,800+ US and almost 4,200 international sources). Updated daily, it offers researchers and students valuable primary source information on today’s issues and events from newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video clips, web only, and blogs.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Searches 40+ historical newspapers from across the US, as well as a few international newspapers.

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