Humanities & Social Sciences

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Word Meanings & Origins

Resources provided by the Cooper Union library:

Other resources:

• Oxford Reference Online: Bilingual Dictionaries

Concise versions of French, German, Irish, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh bilingual dictionaries online.

• Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

Mandarin Chinese to English and English to Mandarin Chinese online dictionary.

• SEALang Library

Language reference materials for Southeast Asia.

• Endangered Languages Project

An online resource for samples and research on endangered languages.

SEARCHING THE CATALOG

• Enter a term to begin your search. The search engine is NOT case-sensitive and ignores punctuation.
  • Term(s) can be a word or a phrase used to describe a thing or concepts
• The default search is a Simple Search and will generate all resources that include the term(s) in any field.
  • Fields are title, author/creator, subject, publisher, call number, ISBN.
• Refine your search using Advance Search and utilize the search filters. 
  • Select which field you'd like the search term to be found.
  • Define rules for the search. These rules will only display results that follow the selected command
    • Contains
    • is (exact)
    • starts with
  • Use "quotation marks" around certain phrases to search for an exact phrase

EXPLORING YOUR SEARCH RESULTS

• By default, the results are sorted by relevance. 
• Utilize Tweak my results to filter within results:
  • Library: Cooper Union, NYU, New School, New York Historical Society, and New York School of Interior Design to name a few.
  • Resource Type: Books, Video Journals Archival Materials, Audio, Databases, Scores, and much more!
  • Subjects: Art, Architecture, Business, Philosophy, Globalization, Social Justice, and Literary Criticism are a few examples. 
  • Publication Date: This can be changed to date-newest or date-oldest. 
  • Languages.
  • Call Number Group: Library of Congress Classification Codes