Comparative Literature: Article Databases

The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. The database contains citations from more than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage includes journal articles, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. While the majority of records are from English-language publications, at least sixty other languages are represented. Also available as a separate database is the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

Literature Online (LION) is a large collection of full-text works of prose, poetry and drama. Works may be located by author or title, or searched full-text for specific words or phrases. Additionally, you can search secondary sources for biographical and critical pieces on authors and their works.

Provides criticism and commentary on authors and their literary works written by contemporary and modern scholars. Literature Criticism Online includes the following series:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

A multi-disciplinary database that covers both scholarly and popular journals and other publications. Includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. The database features some PDF content going back as far as 1867.

The FRANCIS database contains over 1.6 million records (as of June, 2002) covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. International in scope, it is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature--with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. FRANCIS covers items from 1984-present and is updated monthly. Most items have abstracts.

The database comprises over 300,000 articles derived from regular coverage of some 4500 periodicals and 5000 miscellany volume (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues). All articles are classified with full bibliographical details and subject classifications and indexing familiar to medievalists. The IMB was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America.

A bibliography of approximately 135,000 records pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and Middle Ages (400-1500). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).

JSTOR allows searching of articles from its archival collection of journals in a wide range of subject areas by author and/or keywords taken from the titles, abstracts and/or full-text. Searches may be limited to a specific subject category of journals.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index Full Text) is an online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles published in the arts, humanities, social sciences, psychology and geography.This database includes over one million articles and millions of pages of text. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.

Periodicals Index Online (formerly Periodicals Content Index) is an index journal articles published in the arts, humanities, social sciences, psychology and geography. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.

Project MUSE is a searchable collection of hundreds of university press and other journals. Searching is available by author, year, journal title and keywords from titles, subjects or full-text.  Older issues of many (but not all) of the journals are available in JSTOR.  The Project MUSE advanced search allows you to search and link through to the corresponding JSTOR archives as well.

News, culture and history from 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. Nearly 500,000 complete articles dating back to 1990 are available, along with archival material dating back to the mid 1980's. More than 7,500 new articles are added each month. Ethnic NewsWatch is searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages; more than 100,000 articles are in Spanish.

Historical Abstracts is a bibliographic database containing citations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts currently indexes over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. In addition to including the key historical journals from virtually every major country, Historical Abstracts includes a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history.

Gateway to the following literature resources:Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete OnlineGale Virtual Reference LibraryLiterature Criticism OnlineLiterature Resource Center (LRC)Scribner Writers on GVRLTwayne's Authors on GVRLThis site allows you to search all these resources with one search.