General Interest

Portals to the World (Library of Congress)
Contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories.

Reverso
Bilingual dictionaries in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Chinese.

Newspapers of the World on the Internet
Contains links to newspapers around the world available on the web -- separated by continent.

OandA.com -- The Currency Site
A trusted site to access foreign currency exchange data.

How to make diacritical (accent) marks
If you are using Microsoft Word (or equivalent), you can "insert character" when you need to insert a character with a diacritical mark. However, in certain situations, it may be helpful to have the HTML code.

Electronic Text Collection in Western European Languages
A site maintained by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, providing links for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.

Electronic Databases

MLA International Bibliography
From the Modern Language Association. Does not include classical literature. Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies 1963 to present; some full-text.

Dissertations and Theses
Includes Dissertation Abstracts. Dissertations on all academic topics accepted at accredited institutions since 1861. In dissertations microfilmed since 1995, a free 24-page .pdf preview is available.

Literature Online (LION)
A literary encyclopedia with references to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 147 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources Also contains references to many major foreign authors.

Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day.

WorldCat
Over 36 million records of materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Using the "Advanced Search", you can limit your search by format (book, visual materials) and by what is held here at UM.