Databases
- Most Important Resource
- Articles
- Related Resources: History, Linguistics
- Guides to Authors, Plots, & Brief Literary Criticism
- Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Dissertations
- Library Catalogs
Most Important Resource
MLA International Bibliography (Language and Literature)
- Covers 1926 to present. Index to articles from 3,000 journals, dissertations, and collections of essays in the fields of literature, linguistics, and folklore. The STANDARD starting point for studies in modern language and literature.
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Articles
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- Abstracts and indexes over 7,900 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Provides the full text of over 4,500 journals (over 3,600 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Includes articles about German and Russian literature.
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- A citation index to 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals
- Covers 1980 to the present
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Humanities & Social Science Retrospective (1907-1984)
- Covers hundreds of English-language journals in archaeology, classics, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion.
- Indexes articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries and bibliographies on television and motion pictures.
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Related Resources: History, Linguistics
- Non-North American, post-1450 articles from over 2,100 journals, published 1940's to the present, abstracts from 1955. Updated quarterly. Includes literary and cultural history, so may have in formation on authors
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- Index to the complete runs of 400 journals covering European history 400-1700.
- Also indexes books.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- Provides indexing and abstracting of books, dissertations, and approximately 2000 serials relating to linguistics and language behavior. Includes Romance philology.
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Guides to Authors, Plots, & Brief Literary Criticism
- Provides the fulltext of biographical and critical materials from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography and portions from Contemporary Literary Criticism and other Gale literary criticism sets covering the classical period to the present; also provides links to author websites.
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- Provides plot summaries and brief critical analyses of thousands of literary works.
- Also provides brief biographies for more than 1,500 authors.
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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- Provides full-text articles from Encyclopedia Britannica and Britannica Book of the Year (world events).
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Provides the full text of many specialized encyclopedias covering history, literature, and more.
- Includes the Encyclopedia of Russian History.
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Dissertations
- Lengthy abstracts of dissertations in all academic disciplines, including literature.
- Very few dissertations are here in Jackson Library.
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Library Catalogs
- Union catalog of materials held in 18,000+ libraries world-wide. A very large and heterogeneous collection of materials.
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German, Russian, & Japanese Resources
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