FID licences

FID Linguistik provides access to electronic media that are subject to licence fees. With the financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the technical assistance of the Kompetenzzentrum für Lizenzierung, supra-regional licences for selected discipline-specific resources such as databases or journals are acquired. Generally, the FID licences are a service for researchers affiliated with German academic institutions, i.e. universities or university-independent research centres. The licensing models vary depending on the product.

English-Corpora.org

The web interface English-Corpora.org provides access to 17 English corpora such as the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) or the corpus News on the Web (NOW) (see https://www.english-corpora.org). The corpora were created by Mark Davies, a Professor (emeritus) of Linguistics at the Brigham Young University, Utah.

The FID licence facilitates an expanded access to the web interface (equal to Academic license) at 57 universities in Germany. The entire IP network of the respective institution has been activated for the use.

If you are affiliated with an authorised institution and already logged into your university network, you can join the FID licence by choosing the button “Access URL”.

Please note that additionally an individual registration on the provider’s platform is required. Please use your institutional email address when registering.

Authorised institutions Access URL

Enhanced Electronic Grammars Online (EEG)

FID Linguistik provides access to the database EEG of the publishing house De Gruyter. The online resource features comprehensive descriptions of languages from around the world. The focus lies on small and endangered languages (see https://www.degruyter.com/view/db/eeg).

In order to access the database you have to register as individual user via the portal of the Kompetenzzentrum für Lizenzierung. An authorisation can be given only to researchers affiliated with an academic institution in Germany (see Nutzerkreis Enhanced Electronic Grammars Online). Please use your institutional email address when registering.

Registration Access URL

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL)

The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) is a subscription-based e-journal published by John Benjamins Publishing. The journal with focus on Corpus Linguistics presents new findings and innovative approaches in any area of empirical language research (see https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl) .

The FID licence facilitates a campus-wide access to the current volumes at 57 universities in Germany. The entire IP network of the respective institution has been activated for the use.

If you are affiliated with an authorised institution, you can access the IJCL via your local library: you can usually find the access URL in the library’s OPAC.
If you are already logged into your university network, you can directly access the licensed content via the button “Access URL”.

Authorised institutions Access URL

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (IJLCR)

The International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (IJLCR) is a subscription-based e-journal published by John Benjamins Publishing. The IJLCR focuses on learner corpora, i.e. their compilation, evaluation and usage as basis for the development of teaching methods (see https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijlcr).

The FID licence facilitates a campus-wide access to the current volumes at 57 universities in Germany. The entire IP network of the respective institution has been activated for the use.

If you are affiliated with an authorised institution, you can access the IJLCR via your local library: you can usually find the access URL in the library’s OPAC.
If you are already logged into your university network, you can directly access the licensed content via the button “Access URL".

Authorised institutions Access URL

Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online (LME)

FID Linguistik provides access to the database LME of the publishing house De Gruyter. The peer-reviewed online reference provides comprehensive documentation of indigenous and immigrant linguistic minorities in Europe. It contains standardized overview articles in-depth research articles, multimedia elements, and primary sources (see https://www.degruyter.com/database/lme/html).

In order to access the database you have to register as individual user via the portal of the Kompetenzzentrum für Lizenzierung. An authorisation can be given only to researchers affiliated with an academic institution in Germany (see Nutzerkreis Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online). Please use your institutional email address when registering.

Registration Access URL

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics is a subscription-based online encyclopedia published by Oxford University Press (OUP) that currently includes more than 450 articles on linguistics. Peer-reviewed and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics aims to map, over time, the entire landscape of the world’s languages, weaving together the various historical, theoretical, and experimental approaches that make up the field of linguistics (see https://oxfordre.com/linguistics/page/word/word-from-oxford).

The FID licence facilitates a campus-wide access to encyclopedia at 57 universities in Germany. The entire IP network of the respective institution has been activated for the use.

If you are affiliated with an authorised institution, you can access the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics via your local library: you can usually find the access URL in the library’s OPAC.
If you are already logged into your university network, you can directly access the licensed content via the button “Access URL”.

Authorised institutions Access URL