Romance Languages 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)
- The definitive database for research in modern language and literature.
- Indexes articles, dissertations and essays in the fields of literature, linguistics, and folklore.
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Articles
- Includes articles about French and Spanish literature.
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
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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 the humanities, including Romance languages.
- Indexes articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries and bibliographies on television and motion pictures.
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Related Resources: History, Linguistics
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- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on North American history and culture. The best source for finding journal articles on Canadian history. Would be useful for Québecois literature. Includes book reviews.
- 1964 - present.
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- Non-North American, post-1450 articles from over 2,100 journals, 1982-present. 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
- Use to find author biographies, literary criticism, information on literary movements, and 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.
Enciclopedia Universal en Español
- Spanish language encyclopedia.
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Oxford Reference Bilingual Dictionaries
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Includes French/English, Spanish/English and Italian/English dictionaries.
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Dissertations
- Lengthy abstracts of dissertations in all academic disciplines.
- Most dissertations will have to be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
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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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Romance Languages Resources
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Mark
Schumacher
Romance Languages Librarian

