RESEARCH GUIDES BY SUBJECT AND COURSE - MLL RESOURCES - MLA CITATION STYLE - REFERENCE SOURCES - LOCATING BOOKS - INDEXES AND DATABASES - JOURNALS - INTERNET RESOURCES

MLA CITATION STYLE

• Brief MLA guide and examples (PDF file)
• RefWorks may be used to format a collection of citations automatically for bibliography and footnotes.

SELECTED REFERENCE RESOURCES

(Encyclopedias, Films, History and Culture, Language, Literature)

ENCYCLOPEDIAS (NON-ENGLISH)

• Brockhaus, die Enzyklopadie
  [East Wall Ref AE27.B922 1996]
• Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
  [Electronic]
• Enciclopedia universal ilustrada Europeo-Americana
  [East Wall Ref 036 En19]
• Grand dicionnaire encyclopedique Larousse
  [East Wall Ref AE25.G63 1982]
• Grande dizionario enciclopedico UTET
  [East Wall Ref AE35.G7 1984]

FILMS

• Magill's survey of cinema, foreign language films
  [Ref PN1995.9.F67 M34]
• Oxford History of World Cinema
  [Ref PN1993.5.A1 O96 1996]
• Search strategies to locate foreign films in CONSORT.

HISTORY/CULTURE RESOURCES

• Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world
  [Ref ML102.P66 C66 2003]
• Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese culture
  [Ref DS779.23.E5 2005]
• Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture
  [Ref DC33.7.E53 1998]
• Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture
  [Ref DD290.26.E53 1999]
• Encyclopedia of contemporary Italian culture
  [Ref DG450.E53 2000]
• Encyclopedia of contemporary Japanese culture
  [Ref DS822.5.E516 2002]
• Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures
  [Ref F1406.E515 2000]
• Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture
  [Ref DP233.5.E63 1999]
• New Cambridge Modern History
  [D208.N4]
• Women in world history
  [Ref HQ1115.W6 1999]

LANGUAGE RESOURCES

• Arabic English Lexicon
  [Ref PJ6640.L3 1968]
• Brockhaus wahrig deutsches Worterbuch
  [Ref PF3625.B7]
• Cheng & Tsui Chinese Pinyin English Dictionary
  [Ref PL1455.C439 1999]
• Compendium of the world's languages
  [Ref P371.C36 2000]
• Diccionario critico etimologico castellano e hispanico
  [Ref PC4580.C59 1980]
• Grand Robert de la langue francaise
  [Ref PC2625.R5545 2001]
• Grande dizionario della lingua italiana
  [Ref PC1625.B3]
• International encyclopedia of linguistics
  [Ref P29.I58 2003]
• Kanji Dictionary
  [Ref PL677.5.S625 1996]
• Tolkovyi slovar russkogo iazyka
  [Ref PG2625.T64 1998]

LITERATURE RESOURCES

• ARTFL
  [Full-text database of French literature]
• Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
  [Ref PQ7081.A1 C35 1996]
• Contemporary Authors
  [Ref Index Table PN771.C592]
• Contemporary Literary Criticism
  [Ref PN771.C59]
• Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature
  [Ref PL2264.I53 1985]
• Literary Reference Center
• New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
  [Ref PQ41.N48 1995]
• Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
  [Ref PN761.N56]
• Oxford Companion to German Literature
  [Ref PT41.G3 1997]
• Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
  [Ref PQ4006.O84 2002]
• Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature
  [Ref PL726.1.M495 1985]
• Reference Guide to Russian Literature
  [Ref PG2940.R44 1998]
• Reference Guide to World Literature
  [Ref PN524.R44 2003]
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
  [Ref PN771.G27]

LOCATING BOOKS

Examples of subject headings:

French [Japanese, etc.] literature
German [Chinese, etc.] poetry
Authors, Spanish [Russian, etc.]
Author's name
e.g., Dante Alighieri

CONSORT catalog (Kenyon, Denison, Ohio Wesleyan, Wooster)

OhioLINK catalog (most academic libraries in Ohio plus several public libraries)

WorldCat catalog (for materials not found in OhioLINK)

INDEXES AND DATABASES

• MLA Bibliography [1926- ]
  For literature, linguistics, and folklore.
• Humanities International Complete
  
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980 - )
  
• For additional databases, consult the Modern Languages and Literatures Resources page, other Subject Resources pages, and the All Indexes and Databases page.

Kenyon Journals

Here is a selection of available titles at Kenyon and information about additional titles available electronically.

Getting Articles Not Available at Kenyon

Some journal titles are not available at Kenyon, either in print or electronically. You need to place an Inter-Library loan request to get copies of articles from these journals. Estimated time for an item to arrive is at least 2 weeks.

EVALUATING INTERNET SITES

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

• Evaluating Internet Resources

INTERNET RESOURCES

• Intute: Arts and Humanities
• Voice of the Shuttle - Literatures Other Than English
• Non-U.S. Newspapers
• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
• French Studies Web
• German Studies Web
• Italian Studies Web
• Russian and East European Studies

Fall 2007