Translation Search Engine
Translation Journals & E-books
This page aims to give links to useful Translation Journals and E-books.
This list is not meant to be exhaustive! I have only listed the most recent subscription, for older volumes check the Library Catalogue. Further explanation of College Username & Password and IP can be found at the bottom of the page.
Full-Text Electronic Journals
Babel (College Username & Password or IP). Available from 2000 onwards.
Biolinguistics (freely available -registration required). Available from Vol. 1 2007 onwards.
Computational Linguistics (IP) – Available from 1980 onwards.
eXchanges – (freely available). Available from 2003 onwards.
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics – (College U & P or IP). Available from Vol. 13, 2008 onwards.
Institute of Translation and Interpreting Journal (freely available). Available from 2003 onwards.
The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (College U & P or IP) Available from Vol1, 2007 onwards.
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation (freely available). Available from 2004 onwards.
Language Documentation & Conservation (freely available). Available from 2007 onwards.
Linguistic Inquiry (IP). Available from Vol.29, 1998 onwards.
Machine Translation (College U & P or IP) . Available from 1986 onwards.
Mediaszoni: Online Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies on Languages & Cultures (freely available). Available from 2005 onwards.
Meta (freely available). Available from 1966.
Multilingual (College U & P or IP) . Available from 2006 onwards.
South Asia Language Pedagogy & Technology (freely available). Available from Vol. 1 2008 onwards.
Target: International Periodical of Translation Studies (College U & P or IP) . Available from 2005 onwards.
Translation Journal (freely available). Available from 1997 onwards.
Translational Research (College U & P or IP). Available from 2006 onwards.
Translation E-books
Becoming a Translator (College U & P or IP)by Douglas Robinson (Ed.)
In Other Words: a Coursebook on Translation (College U & P or IP) by Mona Baker
Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies (College U & P or IP) by Maeve Olohan
The Linguistics Encyclopedia (College U & P or IP) by Kirsten Malmkjaer
The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference (College U & P or IP) by Lawrence Venuti
Thinking French Translation: a Course in Translation Method: French to English (College U & P or IP) by Sandor Hervey
Thinking German Translation: a Course in Translation Method: German to English (College U & P or IP) by Sandor Hervey
Thinking Italian Translation: a Course in Translation Method: Italian to English (College U & P or IP) by Sandor Hervey
Translation Studies (College U & P or IP) by Susan Bassnett
Translation: an Advanced Resource Book (College U & P or IP) by Basil Hatim
This search engine searches across a range of freely available sources concerned with the study of Translation – especially within the areas of Science, Medicine and Technology.
College Username and Password or IP
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