Finding Articles & Journals
To find a specific journal, use Browzine or UC Library Journal Search.
To locate an article for which you have a citation, use Fetch Item (Citation Linker).
To find scholarly articles on your topic, use the library's Article Databases.
Best Places to Start
The UCSB Library subscribes to hundreds of research databases which are excellent tools for finding scholarly articles. Below is a selection of recommended databases for research in Comparative Literature, many of which contain the full text of articles. If you do not see a link to the full text, use the 
link to find a different access point or to order a copy through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
The complete list of databases, including descriptions, is here: A-Z list of databases.
Other Recommended Databases
The complete list of databases, including descriptions, is here: A-Z list of databases.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowGeneral index to both scholarly journals and popular magazines. Searches can be limited to French language only.
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Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Combines Anthropological Literature (Harvard University) and Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute, UK). Provides extensive worldwide indexing of publications in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
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Brepolis Medieval & Early Modern Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowArticles, essays, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogs, and more, focused on the medieval period.
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Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowSecondary sources and full-text works of prose, poetry and drama.
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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new windowIncludes two separate databases: one indexes journal articles and reviews from over 550 journals, the other is a bibliography of monographs, essays, and other scholarly resources.
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Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowA full-text collection of news, culture and history from the ethnic, minority and native press. An excellent source for francophone studies.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new windowDigital images of 150,000 books published during the 18th century.
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Caribbean LiteratureContains the literary output of Caribbean authors from the 18th - 21st centuries, written in European languages and local languages and dialects such as Papiamento, French Creole, and others.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Searches can be limited to French language. For U.S. and Canada, see "America: History and Life".
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Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowThe digitized, full-image version of much (not all) of the content from Periodical Index Online, below. Searches can be limited to French language only.
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Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new windowAn international index to journal articles from their first issues to the early 2000. Useful for articles from the 1800s and early 1900s that are not indexed elsewhere. Searches can be limited to French language only.
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PerséeOpen access portal to back issues for scholarly journals in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
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Revues.orgA platform for free, open-access journals and book collections in the humanities and social sciences, many in French.