Language and Literature Resources
Language and Literature Resources
Databases
MLA: Modern Language Association International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography indexes books, articles, and
dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and
linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present. It includes
the MLA Thesaurus and the MLA Directory of Periodicals,which lists
detailed information on over 5,500 journals, includes over 4,400
indexed in the Bibliography.
Literature Resource Center
The LRC is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world. Content includes Literature Criticism, Biographies, Topic and Work Overviews, Reviews, News, Primary Sources, and Literary Works, images, and links to audio interviews and news.
Academic Search Complete
The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals. (Available through Ebsco)
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. (Available through Ebsco)
Humanities International Complete
Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full text content, much of which is not found on other databases. The database includes full text for more than 730 journals. (Available through Ebsco)
Woman's Studies International
Produced by NISC, it covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This databases supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented. (Available through Ebsco)
Economia y Negocios
This database is the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO publishing and ESAN. More than 70,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for over 300 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain and the United States. (Available through Ebsco)
Vente et Gestion
Full text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and the professional reader. This collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing and others. (Available through Ebsco)
Fuente Academica
Provides full text, including PDF, for a rapidly growing collection of scholarly Spanish language journals. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content for many academic areas from business to theology. (Available through Ebsco)
Project Muse
Provides online access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Web Sources
Google Print
Search within the texts of books using this specialized Google Search Engine.
Modern Language Association
The website for this well-known association includes publication information and other professional resources.
Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
A huge, award-winning page, VoS is an excellent tool for research in the humanities.
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
A WWW project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America. The Voices is made possible through an ongoing collaborative effort between faculty and students in the Department of English and the Program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Websters' Online Dictionary (Rosetta Edition)
This wiki-based and edited dictionary includes etymology and explanations of usage as well as definitions, graphics, and synonyms for each entry.
Foreign Language Resources