LibGuides: LRC resources for English language and literature: Subject specific databases and websites

British Library Sounds

British Library Sounds
British Library Sounds presents 90,000 unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. Students and staff can listen to all recordings online; most recordings can be downloaded for academic use, referencing the title and copyright owner of the material used.

Particular recordings of interest are in the below sections:

Accents & Dialects explores selected recordings of the spoken word.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference
A digital reference library containing 250 dictionaries and encyclopaedias. An ideal starting point for research on any subject.

Access
To access from off campus, enter your college username and password on the Vision West Nottinghamshire College authentication page.

Topic pages

Credo Reference has thousands of subject specific topic pages - a great place to start exploring a topic. Each topic page provides an

encyclopaedia entry or dictionary definition, entries from other books on Credo, YouTube videos, images, links to news articles, and an interactive

mind map of your topic and related topics. Find some example topic pages below:

American Literature	Dictionaries	English Language
Fantasy Literature	Grammar	Narratives
Phonetics	Poetry	William Shakespeare

ProQuest Learning: Literature

ProQuest Learning: Literature
ProQuest Learning: Literature is a fully searchable, growing collection of literature resources, ranging from author biographies, student guides and dictionaries of literary terms to specialist research materials such as current full-text journals and bibliographic citations.

Access
To access from off campus click on "Login through your library or institution”, select "United Kingdom” as your region, choose West Nottinghamshire College from the list and click Login, then enter your college username and password on the Vision West Nottinghamshire College authentication page.

The 'Authors' section allows you to search for authors and retrieves journal articles, a bibliography of their work, a biography and links to
relevant websites.