We’ve made some recent changes to the A-Z list. Many of our databases have full-text or streaming audio or video content in one or multiple non-English languages, but the field in the Springshare platform that we were using as a Language drop-down menu allowed for only a single language designation for each database. That language menu has now been deleted. As a work-around to make this content more discoverable, we’ve used the ‘more’ field to note language content for these databases. This means that language names are now keyword-searchable, and the text in the search box has been changed from Search Databases to Search Keyword or Language.
A search on virtually any language name will now result in a list of titles. There will be some false hits (e.g. Latin language – Latin American database) and some variations in the English translations of language names, but combining a language search with a specific database type will now provide much better retrieval.
Note that we have not assigned languages to A&I databases with no full text content unless the platform interface and content is available entirely in a non-English language. As always, we’re relying on our public services staff to advise us of any corrections or omissions. Thanks.