Resources for students
In general:
- Form to testify that a paper is your own work: Download
Voice of the Shuttle: Link. Resources for any subject and aspect of the humanities and social sciences.
Research databases licensed to the University: Link. Access on campus, at home via a VPN connection.
- IAAK Evaluation criteria for term papers (and BA/MA Thesis): Download
Oxford English Dictionary (OED): Link. Access only from the university network, accessible via VPN.
- Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn: Link.
- Project Gutenberg: Link. Free download of literary texts whose copyright has expired.
- Early Canadiana Online: Link. Free download of early Canadian literary texts.
- Advanced use of search engines/catalogues: Link.
- Digibib: Link. Researching scholarly texts in libraries in Bonn, Germany, and beyond; Fernleihe.
- Foxit Reader: Link. Pdf reader that allows you to edit documents: highlighting and commenting.
- Campus licence Citavi: Link. Software/Plugin for Firefox and MS Word to manage bibliographical data.
- Zotero: Link. Plugin for Firefox and MS Word to manage bibliographical data.
Literature:
Style guide IAAK: www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/research-neu/copy_of_resources/download-style-guide/view
- MLA Styleguide: Link. Formal guidelines for term papers in literary and cultural studies.
Linguistics:
BAEL Student Resources: Link
Linguist List: Link Comprehensive resource for linguistics.
Linguistics style guide IAAK / Guidelines for writing a term paper or thesis in linguistics 8th version (updated Oct 2020): Download.
- Research Center for Empirical Pragmatics (RCEP): Link
English Language Practice
Merriam Webster Online Thesaurus: Link.
TOEFL: Link. Certificate of English language proficiency.
IELTS: Link. Certificate of English language proficiency.
The Guardian (Online): Link.
- The New York Times (Online): Link.