This is an important database for research pertaining to literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage is international. The MLAIB connects with the MLA Directory of Periodicals. Book reviews are not indexed. 1926 to present.
Can be searched in conjunction with the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which contains all information available on journals & series on the Bibliographys Master List. The Directory of Periodicals is included in the Bibliography.
LLBA covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics, including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. 1973-
A range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres, offering tens of thousands of hard-to-find critical essays.
Gale Literature Criticism is comprised of the following series:
AHCI is a Web of Science database that indexes arts and humanities journal articles and book reviews. Choose either General Search or Cited Ref Search, AHCI and the year(s) of publication. Advanced Search is also available.
Provides full-text access to scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. Many journals go back to their first issue. Check the issues available for individual titles.
This database includes the full text of the Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) series from Gale. There are selections from Contemporary Literary Criticism and more than thirty other literary reference sets, including Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature. Criticism, Novels for Students, and Literature and Its Times.
An online index to journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences with links to the full text of some articles. The scope is international. (1665-1995)
Scopus is a multidisciplinary citation and abstracting database covering peer-reviewed journals from international publishers. While references go back to 1996, there are millions of pre-1996 records that go back as far as 1823.
The main ARTFL database (FRANTEXT, formerly Trésor de la Langue Française) is a corpus consisting of nearly 2000 texts in French, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The ARTFL French Women Writers Project is a searchable database containing works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.
The University of Delaware Library's subscription provides access to English poetry from 600 to the present, American and African American poetry from 1603 to the present, The Faber Poetry Library, English drama (including Shakespeare) from 1280 to 1915, and English prose from 1500 to 1900.
Literature Online Complete provides access to:
English poetry from 600 to the present American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present The Faber Poetry Library English drama (including Shakespeare) from 1280 to 1915 English prose from 1500 to 1900
Includes access to the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL) with associated full-text, major literary reference works, & websites selected for their relevance to literary studies.