Dear AGÜ Members,
The Wikilala, Kelime.com, and E-Osmanlıca databases, detailed below, were opened for trial access between September 24, 2025, and November 15, 2025.
Wikilala is a digital library that allows users to search in modern Turkish texts (newspapers, magazines, books, and documents) from the Ottoman (1729-1928) and Republican periods (1923-2023) published after the invention of the printing press.
It includes:
· Newspapers: Over 3 million newspaper pages in 22 categories
· Magazines: Nearly 2 million magazine pages in 23 categories
· Books: Over 48,000 books in 36 different categories
· Archives of Cumhuriyet (1924-2023), Agos (1996-2023), and Aydınlık newspapers are included.
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Kelime.com is a dictionary database that provides linguistic, type, meaning, class, and etymological information for the word you search for in dozens of dictionaries across 10 languages. It finds similarities and derivatives of the word, provides online translation, and analyzes words that are unreadable due to wear and tear.
General Features:
· Indexing the meaning of the word you search for in all dictionaries.
· Finding synonyms and antonyms, phrases, etymologies, meanings, and spellings within 820,000 lines of data across 10 languages.
· Listing phrases, idioms, and words derived from the word you search for.
· Seeing the meaning of the word in which it appears and in example sentences.
· Analyzes the word in case of wear, tear, or illegibility with the analyzer feature.
· Access the word's details using predictions from the analyzer section.
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It is an educational platform consisting of 79 lessons aimed at teaching Ottoman Turkish. Thanks to its gamified system, designed with methods such as true/false, matching, alternative questions, and write what you see, e-Ottomanlıca is designed to support the learning process for all age groups.
It includes:
· Gamified personalized instruction from beginner to advanced
· Determine your Ottoman reading skills/level with placement tests
· A training set consisting of 79 lessons and over 1,000 words aligned with university curricula
· Measure and evaluate subject knowledge with hundreds of questions in 10 different types
· Receive a Course Completion Certificate at the end of the training
Regards,
AGU Library
As AGU Library, we will happily assist you under kutuphane@agu.edu.tr in providing technical support, requests, and suggestions to all our staff.