Modern Languages and Literatures Resources

Research Guides by Subject and Course - Indexes and Databases - News - Journals - Electronic Journals - Reference Sources - Films - Internet Resources - Refworks - New Books

Indexes and Databases

  • MLA Bibliography [1926- ]
    Provides bibliographic citations covering scholarly work in literature, linguistics, and folklore worldwide. Sources include journal and book articles, dissertations, monographs, and series.
  • Art Full Text (1929 - )
    Provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for 400 art publications and offers broad coverage of art topics.
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980 - )
    Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 7,000 major science and social science journals.
  • CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online (1991- )
    Includes policy briefs, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, journal articles, book chapters, economic indicators, maps and country data, and proceedings from conferences.
  • Clase and Periodica [1975- ]
    Indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together, they offer access to citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
  • Film & Television Literature Index
    Provides bibliographic citations covering film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
  • Fuente Academica Indexes 260 scholarly Spanish language scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers..
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (1936 - )
    A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. It covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
  • Historical Abstracts (1955 - )
    Indexes and abstracts scholarly literature on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
  • Humanities International Complete
    Indexes 2,000 journals, as well as books and reference sources in the humanities. This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced.
  • ITER (Medieval and Renaissance studies)
    A bibliography of approximately 918,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews, collected from over 6,000 publications, including over 1,600 journals. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, this research tool will be of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
  • PAIS [1972- ]
    Indexes and abstracts the world's public affairs literature. Fields covered include political science, international relations, economics, and other social sciences. Types of materials indexed included journal articles; books; government documents; and statistical compilations.
  • Women's Studies International [1972 - ]
    Covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. More than 2,000 periodicals are indexed, with some coverage from 1972 and earlier to the present.
  • MLA Directory of Periodicals
    Lists over 7,100 journals with 4,400 currently indexed periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication.

News Sources

Selected Journals at Kenyon

(General, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish)

General

Arabic:

Chinese

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Russian

Spanish

Electronic Journals

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center: Language and Literature contains numerous full text journals in the area of language and literature studies.

JSTOR provides access to the full content of a variety of scholarly journals, including at least 15 titles in the area of language studies. Coverage generally begins with volume one of a journal, and ends 2-5 years from the present. Journals may be browsed or searched.

Selected Reference Resources

(Literature, Language, Films, History and Culture)

Literature Resources

Language Resources

Films

History/Culture Resources

Evaluating Internet Sites

It is very important to think critically about Internet resources. To assist you in evaluating Internet resources, see:

Selected Internet Sites

 

RefWorks

RefWorks is an online service used to create a personal database of bibliographic citations, which may be automatically formatted for bibliography and footnotes.

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