Literature / Foreign Language Databases

Full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.

Literary Reference Center contains full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios), 350 literary journals, 535,000 book reviews, 54,000 classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories, 4,000 author interviews, 8,400 classic texts and much more.

Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

The Literature Resource Center consists of Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 124,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 11,700 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.

Other features include over 5,100 explications and overviews of prominent literary works; links to 4,900 websites focusing on major authors and their works; over 6,700 timeline events to help place literature in its historical and social context, 2,300 author portraits; a guide to writing a Modern Language Association-style research paper; access to the Literary Index, an online database that indexes the content of all of Thomson Gale's literature products; and more.

Citations from over 6,000 journals, books, essay collections, bibliographies, working papers, and dissertations in the fields of language, linguistics, literature, and folklore.
Coverage: varies by title, oldest is 1980 - current

MLA International Bibliography(produced by the Modern Language Association), contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes journal abbreviations and acronyms for almost 3,500 titles and nearly 11,000 subject names and terms. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition to the bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

Full-text articles from the world's leading journals, newspapers and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Coverage: 1980 - current

Academic OneFile contains over 60 million records from the following types of sources: Periodicals — General interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers. Newspapers — The full text of The New York Times from 1990, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor. Newswires — 121 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world. Audio — listen to any National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the Census and the State Department are also available.

Full text for nearly 4,500 multi-disciplinary journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
Coverage: 1975 - current (earlier for some titles)

In addition to full text, Academic Search Premier offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

Nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Coverage: Medieval - 20th century

Besides the Main ARTFL Database, resources include French Women Writers, Provençal poetry, Journal de Trévoux, full-text dictionary searching and the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database. Eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century texts are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century, medieval, and Renaissance texts. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions.

Offers bibliographic information on over 5.8 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles.

Integrates over 1,000 volumes of Thomson Gale publications with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text. Marquis Who's Who provides quick reference information on over 1 million additional people whose entries have appeared in more than 20 Marquis sources published from 1985 to the present. Narrative biographies provide an in-depth overview of the subject's life and accomplishments. Over 538,000 full-text magazine articles bring coverage of the subject up-to-date and broaden the view of his or her place in history, society, a particular field of endeavor, or the news

Offers bibliographic information on over 5.8 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles.

BooksInPrint.com Professional features over 30,000 full-text previews, 140,000 tables of contents, and over 700,000 reviews of titles by over 200,000 publishers. Cover images, author biographies and annotations are just a few of the many other database benefits.

Search capabilities allow you to combine up to 31 search criteria and now features BIP ALERT that allows you to save search criteria and receive an e-mail any time a title is released that matches your previously saved search settings.

Citations for nearly 65,000 essays contained in printed anthologies, collections, and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
Coverage: 1985 - current

More than 320 single and multi-authored volumes are indexed annually with more than 20 selected annuals and serial publications. Coverage of social sciences and the humanities is very broad including subjects such as archaeology, architecture, art, children's literature, classical studies, drama, economics, fiction, film, folklore, history, linguistics, music, poetry, political science, psychology, religion, women's studies and more.

Proporciona indexación, imágenes y el texto completo de compartimientos hispánicos populares -- no apenas traducciones.
Provides indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations.
Coverage: 1987 - current

Informe es una base documental para revistas y artículos en español. Este recurso incluye temas de cultura, salud, política, entretenimiento, y noticias. Además, el contenido incluye revistas con artículos en ingles y en español.

Informe provides the full text of 50 Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals. Topics include cultural and lifestyle issues, health and parenting, entertainment, political and current events. Includes Spanish subject guide and titles in English and Spanish.

Bibliographic citations from articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods.
Coverage: 400-1700

Iter contains more than 935,000 citations collected from over 6,600 publications, including over 1,600 journals. The search interface permits expert searching by keyword, title, author and, for selected records, by Library of Congress subject headings and Dewey Decimal Classification. The interface supports Boolean and positional operators, and allows limiting by language, publication type and publication year. Results lists can be sorted by author, subject, title, relevance or publication year. Records can be marked and conveniently e-mailed or downloaded.

Detailed information on over 7,100 journals that include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

Entries in the MLA Directory of Periodicals include frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted. Searches can be restricted by contribution policies, circulation, peer reviewed, book reviews and much more.

The OED covers the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world.

The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition. Draft material from the revision programme is published online, alongside unrevised entries from the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, and its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). Revised entries are added to the online Dictionary every quarter, replacing versions from the Second Edition and Additions Series.

Full-text access to all 300 journal titles in the Standard Collection that cover diverse areas of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Coverage: varies (earliest date 1995) - current

The Project MUSE Standard Collection is particularly strong in literature and history, but also global in scope with political and social coverage of Africa, Latin America, Asia, Canada, and the Middle East. View a complete title list.

Directory information on serials publications throughout the world in a variety of media types covering all subjects.

Ulrichsweb.com includes scholarly journals, annuals, conference proceedings, trade publications, newspapers, and electronic publications, deriving data from over 80,000 US and foreign publishers. Approximately 47,000 discontinued titles from 1974 onward are included. Complete bibliographic citations, with buying and ordering information, subject information, abstracting and indexing services, and URLs to publishers’ Web sites are provided for currently available titles. Searches can combine 30 criteria that limit by details such as type, feature, status, language, country,and many others.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Search millions of bibliographic records from combined catalogs of more than 27,000 libraries around the world.
Coverage: Before 1000 BC - current

WorldCat contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries -- more than 57 million -- for books, manuscripts, maps, journals and magazines, films and slides, musical scores, sound recordings, computer programs,articles, chapters, papers, and more. Includes records representing 400 languages.

Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.
Coverage: 7th edition 2001

Entries include personal and career information, addresses, a detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Each entry also includes a signed critical essay covering each poet's career and works, written by an expert in the field.

Provides biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets.
Coverage: 7th edition 2001

Entries include personal and career information, addresses, a detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Each entry also includes a signed critical essay covering each poet's career and works, written by an expert in the field.

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Full-text access to 12 Oxford Companions covering American and African American, English and Irish, Canadian, Austrlian and New Zealand literature. Also included are 9 dictionaries covering literary terms, fables, and writers.

Oxford Reference Online Premium is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 170 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Search either the entire site or any of the 19 subject-specific collections. Also included are collections of quotation reference books, map images, and timelines broken down by theme or country.

Guidance on best resources for Literature research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.