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Research Guide for: Foreign Languages and Literatures

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Indexes


Subject-Specific Indexes

Language Teaching
Call Number: PB35 .L32 Location: Periodical Index Area (1F)

Language Teaching is issued 4 times a year and contains one article on a different topic for each issue and abstracts of journal articles and books. Subject, author and source index for the current issue are included. Covered subjects: language teaching, language learning, reading & writing, language testing, teacher education, bilingual education & bilingualism, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.

Related Indexes

Humanities Index
Call Number: AI3 .H85 Location: Periodical Index Area (1F)

Humanities Index is used to find an article on your topic or by a certain author's name. In Humanities Index, subjects and authors are arranged together in alphabetical order. There is also a section for citation list to book reviews arranged by name of the author of the reviewed book, or the title of the book.


Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works
Call Number: PN1022 .C63 2004 Location: Reference (1F)

Contains mainly American and British poems, but also poems from other countries in English translation. It is searchable by title & first line of poem, author's name and subject.

Online Databases for Citations/Abstracts/Full Text Articles

MLA International Bibliography GALILEO Funding
MLA International Bibliography may be a most comprehensive database for people in the Language/Literature field. It contains bibliographic information on journal articles, books, collections, and dissertations. It also includes full-text articles. MLA Directory of Periodicals is a list of journals that are contained in this database and you can find it in the green bar right under search function tab in the database screen.

Click here for the Database's Help page.


Literature Online Reference Edition GALILEO Funding
This database is a "collection of literature resources, ranging from author biographies, student guides and dictionaries of literary terms to specialist search materials such as current full-text journals and bibliographic citations." (from the database's information page)

Click here for the Database's Search Tips page.


Literature Resource Center UWG Funding
Literature Resource Center is a combination of three databases: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Genres covered in this database are: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, histry, journalism, etc.

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JSTOR UWG Funding
One of the major full-text databases for journal articles, including articles written in other languages such as Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish. Note that "JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR." (from JSTOR's Welcome page)

List of Journals in JSTOR by Subject:
  • Language and Literature
  • Latin American Studies

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    Project Muse UWG Funding
    Another major full-text databases for journal articles, covering currently published issues. Project Muse contains only peer-reviewed, scholarly journals published from University presses and other academic publishers.

    List of Journals in Project Muse by Subject:
  • French Studies
  • Iberian Studies
  • Latin American Studies
  • Literature

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    Academic Search Premier at EBSCOhost GALILEO Funding
    Academic Search Premier offers citations, abstracts, and full-text articles of scholarly journals and magazines.

    Example of journal titles in Foreign Languages/Literature field
  • Comparative Literature Studies
  • Seminar: a journal of Germanic studies
  • Germanic Review
  • Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
  • Bulletin of Spanish Studies
  • International Journal of Francophone Studies
  • Paragraph

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    Research Library at Proquest UWG Funding
    Research Library contains citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from scholarly journals, old and new newspapers, trade publications and magazines for general interest.

    Example of journal titles in Foreign Languages/Literature field
  • French Forum
  • Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
  • Modern Language Review
  • Germanic Review
  • Latin American Literary Review

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  • Other indexes

    Ingram Library's Indexes and Bibliographies Search Page
    Access to all subject specific and multidisciplianary databases available through Ingram Library, including those from GALILEO.


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