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Modern Languages: Databases with Resources Related to Languages

This research guide features resources and strategies for finding information and conducting research related to Modern Languages

GENERAL DATABASES WITH LANGUAGE CONTENT

The databases listed below are general in nature, but have access to many topics related to language study.

DATABASES WITH HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Daily Life Through History

This is a reference collection of primary and secondary sources as well as journal articles, including peer-reviewed essays, covering daily life from 10,000 BC to the present.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

This database provides a single-search of the full-text of The New York Times (1851-2014), The Washington Post (1877-2002), The Baltimore Sun (1837-1993), The Guardian (1791-2003), and The Observer (1791-2003), including full page and article images

World History in Video

Critically-acclaimed documentaries exploring human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.

GENERAL DATABASES WITH INFORMATION ON MANY SUBJECTS

Academic Search Ultimate

 Contains full-text journal articles in social sciences, humanities, multicultural studies, education.

Cambridge Core 

Has full-text, peer-reviewed journals and e-books published by Cambridge University Press on wide variety of subjects.

Credo 

Offers full-text reference resource with articles, images, audio files, and videos covering every major subject. 

Gale Ebooks 

Gives access to full-text, academic e-books covering a wide range of topics . 

Humanities Source Ultimate 

Contains full-text articles from journals and magazines, including peer-reviewed journals, covering many subjects.

JSTOR 

Offers full-text electronic access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text 

Indexes scholarly books and articles, some with full text, on a broad range of humanities disciplines related to global literatures and languages, including the MLA Thesaurus and the Directory of Periodicals, with coverage back to the 1920s.

Oxford Academic Journals 

Has full text of electronic journals published by the Oxford University Press from 1996 to the present. 

Oxford Academic Ebooks

Gives access to full-text academic e-books from Oxford University Press, including a variety of subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law 

Project MUSE 

Contains full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from the world's most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. 

ProQuest Central 

Has full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional publications, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports covering all major subject area. 

DATABASES SPECIALIZING IN WORLD LITERATURE

Gale Literature

This databases offers a single-search of Gale’s literary databases, including Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, and more, covering authors and their works, literary movements, genres, book reviews, full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies.

Language & Literature (Formerly Lives of Literature-JSTOR) 

Offers indexes of academic journals covering writers and core literary movements world-wide.

Literary Encyclopedia 

This is an encyclopedia of refereed reference articles related to literary and cultural history.

MagillOnLiterature Plus

Contains full text articles on authors worldwide who have made important contributions to the areas of fiction, poetry, drama, and philosophy. Also contains critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.

Oxford Academic 

Has full-text academic e-books from Oxford University Press, including literature and a variety of other subjects across the world.

Scribner Writers Online 

Gives access to-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world.

Twaynes Authors Online

Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world, including close analysis of key work.

World Folklore and Folklife 

Includes reference works, handbooks, classic folk tales, contextual material, multimedia resources, images, and maps that address holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foodways, and folk remedies that define our society and our place within it.

DATABASES WITH ACCESS TO MEDIA

Britannica ImageQuest

Contains rights-cleared images from the best collections in the world.

Ethnographic Video Online

Offers streaming video of human culture, behavior and society around the world, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork.

Films on Demand

Has streaming video clips and select full-length documentaries and other educational films from acclaimed producers.