Welcome to the library research guide for Arabic.

This isn't an exhaustive list of resources! This guide serves as a starting point to facilitate your language learning and literary research. Browse the blue tabs for information on:

Language Learning

• Handbooks, Dictionaries, Phrasebooks & More;
• Reading Practice: Graded Readers, Graphic Novels, & Young Adult Lit;
• Contemporary Arabic Newspapers.

Literature

• Finding Materials in Arabic;
• Identifying Relevant Databases.

Also, discover strategies for organizing/citing sources and identify ways to get help!

The Library Catalog, accessible through the library's website at library.wlu.edu, serves as a portal to the library's books, ebooks, journals, and multimedia content. It searches across and within much of the libraries holdings, spanning print materials and our databases. Because it searches so much, expect significantly more results than you would find in a topical, format, or discipline specific database.

To find only academic journal articles within the Library Catalog:

1. Conduct your search as you would normally,
2. Use the provided filters on the left side of the results screen (when on a computer) to limit by
   Availability = "Peer Reviewed Journals" and Material Type = "Articles."

The Library can't own or subscribe to every piece of research ever created...that's why we have interlibrary loan!

If you need to use an article or book not in the library's collection, place an interlibrary loan request. The University Library can borrow materials from libraries across the globe.