The databases listed below are general in nature, but have access to many topics related to language study.
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
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.
Contains full-text journal articles in social sciences, humanities, multicultural studies, education.
Has full-text, peer-reviewed journals and e-books published by Cambridge University Press on wide variety of subjects.
Offers full-text reference resource with articles, images, audio files, and videos covering every major subject.
Gives access to full-text, academic e-books covering a wide range of topics .
Contains full-text articles from journals and magazines, including peer-reviewed journals, covering many subjects.
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.
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
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.
Has full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional publications, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports covering all major subject area.
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.
This is an encyclopedia of refereed reference articles related to literary and cultural history.
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.
Has full-text academic e-books from Oxford University Press, including literature and a variety of other subjects across the world.
Gives access to-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world.
Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world, including close analysis of key work.
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.
Contains rights-cleared images from the best collections in the world.
Offers streaming video of human culture, behavior and society around the world, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork.
Has streaming video clips and select full-length documentaries and other educational films from acclaimed producers.