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Super general
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Encyclopedia Britannica (ebooks) Encyclopaedia Britannica offers more than 72,000 encyclopedia articles and also articles about current events from the Britannica Books of the Year. You can also search a dictionary with 73,000 words, look at geographical and biographical sections and special features on different themes.
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Nationalencyklopedin - NE (ebooks) Ne.se is the web version of the Swedish National Encyclopaedia (NE). It contains the 20 volumes of the printed version, the 3 supplementary volumes (published in spring 2000) and a dictionary. NE is Swedens largest encyclopaedia with 180 000 main entries. The supplementary volumes contains 8 500 recently written articles and new facts for many of the original entries. The NE dictionary (NEO) describes and explains 70 000 Swedish words and expressions. The printed dictionary was published in 3 volumes in 1995-96 and was prepared by Språkdata, Department of Swedish, Göteborg University. At ne.se you will also find Ask an Expert, Crossword help, Films & Animations and much more.Please note: this database is only in Swedish.
Please also note that access to the NE-app isn't included in the Lund University libraries license.
Nationalencyklopedin (NE) är ett uppslagsverk på vetenskaplig grund utarbetat på initiativ av Sveriges riksdag och på uppdrag av Statens kulturråd. ne.se är i första hand en stor kunskapsdatabas som innehåller Nationalencyklopedins 20 band, de tre supplementbanden (utgivna våren 2000) och ordböckerna. Hela denna kunskapsmassa finns tillgänglig i en och samma sökning. Nationalencyklopedin är Sveriges största uppslagsverk med 180 000 uppslagsord i ett brett urval. I maj 2000 kompletterades de första 20 banden med tre supplementband. De innehåller 8 500 nyskrivna artiklar samt nya fakta till många av de ursprungliga uppslagsorden. Nationalencyklopedins ordbok (NEO) beskriver och förklarar 70 000 svenska ord och uttryck. Bokversionen utgavs i tre band 1995-96 och är utarbetad av Språkdata vid Göteborgs universitet. Vid uppslagsordet får du veta bl.a. vad ordet betyder, i vilket sammanhang det kan användas, hur det skall uttalas samt dess historia. På ne.se finns även aktuella notiser och reportage i skiftande ämnen. Här finns också Fråga experten, Korsordshjälp, Filmer & Animationer, Kunskapsjakten - ett spel som testar dina kunskaper på tid m.m.
OBS! I NE-artiklarna förekommer specialtecken, exempelvis matematiska formler, som normalt inte kan återges på Internet. Genom att installera NE-fonten kan artiklarna återges korrekt.
Vänligen notera att tillgång till NE:s app inte ingår i Lunds Universitets biblioteks licensavtal.
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Oxford English Dictionary, OED (ebooks) The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
The OED Online offers access to the complete contents of the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the 3-volume Additions Series (1993-97). It covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Handbooks, encyclopedias
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The SAGE Handbook of European Studies av Chris Rumford (Editor)ISBN: 9781412933957
Publikationsdatum: 2009-07-01
Europe is one of the world's oldest civilizations. But what does it mean to be European today? What place does Europe have in global affairs? How should we analyze its key institutions, system of governance and broader cultural, social and political dynamics? This exhaustive and timely handbook will: • explore the transformations that characterize contemporary Europe • investigate how we can best study Europe • consolidate European studies and provide a platform for future study • increase the profile of European studies.
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The SAGE Handbook of European Union Politics av Knud Erik Jorgensen (Editor); Mark Pollack (Editor); Ben J. Rosamond (Editor)ISBN: 9781412908757
The European Union (EU) poses quite profound questions for scholars and students of the social and political sciences. This benchmark Handbook is designed to provide an authoritative state-of-the art guide to the scope of the field suitable for both established scholars and students of the EU; reflect and contribute to the debates about the nature of the field of EU studies and EU politics in particular; and explore in detail the development of the many approaches to the study of EU politics. Divided into four sections, the Handbook focuses on theorizing European integration; the EU as polity; politics and policy making in the EU; and the EU and the international system.