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Welcome to the DFL Guide

Welcome to the USMA Library’s research guide (LibGuide) for help in Foreign Languages.

This guide has been created to help you get started with your library research. We are eager to help you with your research for papers you’re tasked to write, special projects, and most basic questions.

If you would like to meet for assistance, please use the Schedule Appointment feature, or contact me so we can arrange a time when we’re both available. I look forward to hearing from you!

In the meantime, check out some of the resources suggested in this guide.

What does an academic department liaison do?

Reference & Research Consultant

Support for thesis students
Provide reference & research support, or appropriate referral to other experts or service providers
In-person, phone, email, and chat support available

Teaching and Learning

Orientations to new faculty during FDW, participate in FDW
Updates to returning faculty
Understand libraries’ potential role in providing content or support for department
Topical workshops (Zotero citation management, Wikipedia)
Create instruction support material including research guides LibGuides: online research guides
Attend departmental seminars, meetings, and subject-specific conferences and collaborate with faculty to support their research

Integrate library resources into course development

Incorporate use of library collections and research based learning as an integral component of courses
Collaboratively build framework for understanding research processes, using library resources, and designing in-person and online learning environments to support project development
Support curriculum to integrate information fluency concepts and research skills into the curriculum, assist with project development to assess these skills

Collection development

Resource purchase requests
Access to databases
Training on foreign language and culture focused databases
Scholarly Communication – Recruit content for the institutional repository – USMA Digital Commons

Enrichment

Celebration of West Point Authors Event
Support to departmental special events (Special Collections and Archives exhibits)
Library hosted exhibits (Display for the Inaugural West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military)
Student & Campus engagement (National Poetry Month, National Libraries Week)

Suggested Databases

These Databases are subscribed to by USMA Library. If you are having any difficulty in accessing content, please contact the Liaison Librarian listed for assistance.

ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text and full-page-image access to titles in most humanities disciplines and in area studies.
Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
This bibliography is intended for students and scholars interested in any aspect, discipline or sub-region of Asia. It is an excellent means for discovering citations and the full-text of Western-language journal articles, review articles, conference proceedings and chapters in edited volumes and Festschriften published anywhere in the world that deal with East, Southeast and South Asia and with the overseas Asian communities. Coverage begins with 1971. (Note: not all citations will include full-text)
BrowZine This link opens in a new window
BrowZine brings journal content together from multiple publishers and platforms, both open-access and subscribed, into a single place where you can create MyBookshelf to save your favorite journals, view the tables of contents, and read full articles. On the mobile application save articles as new issues are released, indicating to readers the new articles they have not seen before.
For more information go to https://library.westpoint.edu/JournalSearching
Cabells Scholarly Analytics This link opens in a new window
Cabells Scholarly Analytics is a database of journals describing peer-review policy, fees, quality metrics, and many more features that researchers find helpful in making decisions about where to publish. Comprised of Journalytics: A curated list of over 11,000 academic journals spanning 18 disciplines guides researchers and institutions in getting the most impact out of their research. Additional information includes difficulty of acceptance, acceptance rates and altmetrics.
Predatory Reports: Specialists analyze over 60 behavioral indicators to keep the community aware of the growing threats and to keep academia protected from exploitative operations.
Europa World Plus - Temporarily unavailable January 2023 This link opens in a new window
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organizations. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports This link opens in a new window
Translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports are from 1974-1996 and contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and information.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Collection of millions of scanned books and other publications. Allows searching of the complete texts of a wide range of books. Shows full page images of entire works where available. Login with westpoint.edu credentials to enable enhanced downloading. Use the "Find in a library" link on individual results pages to locate libraries holding the book.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 2,500 journals, with full text for more than 300.
Jane's This link opens in a new window
Source for information on defense, geopolitics, weapons systems, and security. Login with your westpoint.edu email address.
Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Intelligence Centre This link opens in a new window
News, exclusive features, detailed reference and an interactive terrorist events database. Login with your westpoint.edu email address.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
A to Z Maps Online This link opens in a new window
Database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.

Suggested Web Resources

These resources are outside of USMA, but they still contain valuable information. They can be searched for a variety of topics; results can then be narrowed by language, area, or country.

Please note that the resources listed in this section are hosted by groups separate from the USMA Library. The USMA Library can NOT guarantee access or resolve connection issues to these resources.

Instructor Resources

These resources are not limited to instructors, though instructors may find them more useful than Cadets.

Digital Commons Network: Linguistics
Digital Commons Network: Translation Studies
Dimensions: Language, Communication, and Culture
DOAJ the Directory of Open Access Journals
FLTmag IALLT's Free Language Technology Magazine
IALLT or International Association for Language Learning Technology
Linguistic Bibliography Online
U.S. Think Tanks - Think Tank Search - Research Guides at Harvard Library
- Non-U.S. Think Tanks by Region - Think Tank Search - Research Guides at Harvard Library
- These sites are affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations. Inclusion is based upon the relevancy of subject area to HKS coursework and scholarship, the availability of the think tank’s research in full-text on the website, and the think tank’s reputation and influence upon policy making. The list represents a mixture of partisan and non-partisan think tanks.
World Trade Organization: Resources
- Trilingual Linguistic Resources

West Point Center for Oral History:

Assessing and Countering the Threat of Terrorism
- Liam Collins
A Hungarian Officer on Leadership, Service, and Multinational Operations
- Sándor Farkas
Doing "Lawrence of Arabia" Stuff: A Non-Traditional Career Leads to the USMA Department of Foreign Languages
- Greg Ebner
"Hold the Door Open for Others": A Conversation on Immigration, Identity, and Success in the Army
- Brigid Osei-Bobie
International Cadet Experiences:
- Changing the World: Opportunities for Growth Through Exchange
  - Thomas Koizumi and Kiana Stewart
- "It's Good": The Bright Side of West Point for a Cadet from Kosovo
  - Ylli Daladaku
- "People, Relationships, Family, Traditions": Appreciate the Little Things
  - Arelena Shala
- Pursuing Diverse Experiences at West Point and in Life
  - Aaron Li
- The Making of an American: A Pakistani Immigrant's Journey Through Citizenship to West Point
  - Aaqib Ayed

Please note that the resources listed in this section are hosted by groups separate from the USMA Library. The USMA Library can NOT guarantee access or resolve connection issues to these resources.

Other Beneficial Resources

These resources may require you to log-in or create an account, instructions are linked.

Overdrive/ Libby for eBooks and magazines - Instructions.
Kanopy for video streaming and more!
Mango Languages
- Use a browser other than Internet Explorer. Create a profile/account while in the desktop version. Download entire lessons to access while offline. Logging in to your profile will sync your progress.
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Etc. - Instructions

Other Institutions

Modern Language Association
- NEMLA Northeast Modern Language Association
New York Public Library
- SimplyE app linked to NYPL account has eBooks and Audiobooks in a variety of languages.
- Naxos Music Library app includes over 2 million musical tracks that you can stream to your device.
- Projectr a streaming platform for watching independent films from around the world.
DOD MWR Libraries - Instructions .

Please note that the resources listed in the "Other Institutions" section are hosted by groups separate from the USMA Library. The USMA Library can NOT guarantee access or resolve connection issues to these resources.