Interlibrary Loan & Article DELivery Service
UD faculty, staff, and students can use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request items not available at the Library.
Current faculty, staff, and students also are eligible for the Article DELivery Service. Use this service to request scanned copies of articles from the Library's print and microfilm collections.
RefWorks
Searching for Articles
Try searching these databases for citations to articles, books, and
more. Use the 
link in a database to see if the full text of an article is online; to find a
print copy of a journal in the Library; or to place an Interlibrary Loan request for journals the Library does not have.
See the Literature and Pedagogy tabs on this guide to discover more resources and databases in your area of study.
Some searching tips:
- Start with a broad search using relevant keywords to get an idea of how articles are indexed in a database.
- Use quotation marks to search for phrases instead of individual keywords.
- Add the term AND to your search to look for both terms in your results; use OR to look for one or the other. A search for Voltaire AND Candide will look only for records with both those words in the article title or abstract, but a search for Voltaire OR Candide will look for records that include either one of those words.
- Try truncation, which in many databases means inserting an asterisk (*). Searching for Ital* will look for records that include the words Italy, Italian, Italians, Italiano, etc.
Spanish Language and Literature Databases
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowThe MLA International Bibliography consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations, with some abstracts, to publications on linguistics and related fields
- Essay and General Literature / Essay and General Literature Retrospective This link opens in a new windowCites thousands of essays in single and multi-author collections, plus selected annuals and serials
- Informe Academico This link opens in a new windowProvides a wide range of full-text Spanish and Portuguese language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America.
- Clase and Periodica This link opens in a new windowIndex of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
- International Medieval Bibliography Online This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa in the period 400-1500
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new windowBibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe and related information sources
- HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowAnnual bibliography on Latin America, covering social sciences and humanities
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles from English-language scholarly journals and specialized magazines
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCitations, abstracts, and cited references to material published in scholarly journals in all subject areas
News Databases
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowFull text of articles in ethnic, minority, and Native American periodicals
- Global Newsstream This link opens in a new windowProvides global news content from 2,500+ news sources, 1980s to present. Coverage varies by title.
- Informe Academico This link opens in a new windowSpanish and Portuguese language scholarly publications both from and about Latin America
- Latin American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowTitles are from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowFull text information from newspapers, legal publications, and other sources.
- World News Connection This link opens in a new windowTranslated and English-language news and information compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources
General Databases
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowComprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals, the majority in full text, covering all subject areas
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World This link opens in a new windowComprehensively catalogs all of the world's known living languages
- Expanded Academic ASAP This link opens in a new windowCitations, with abstracts, to articles in scholarly and general interest periodicals, with some full text
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts to publications on the history of all countries except the United States and Canada, with some links to full text
- Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles in journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, with some links to full text
Electronic Journals
- Electronic Journals for Languages & LiteraturesA listing of online resources for Languages and Literatures. Most titles can be accessed from off campus by current UD faculty, staff, and students. You may be prompted for your UDelNetID and password.