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The following databases, websites, and course handouts may be helpful in beginning or continuing research on topics related to the study of modern languages and literatures.  For further assistance with finding resources or information, use the subject specific guides listed below or please contact the liaison librarians for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish..

Databases

MLA International Bibliography
Major citation index to critical scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Some full-text articles.

Gale Literary Databases
Basic resource for background information on authors and works of literature. Includes the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and Contemporary  Literary Criticism. Biographical information on modern authors and significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and short story writers from all eras and genres.

Humanities Abstracts
Index to popular and scholarly periodicals and books; contains limited amount of full text. Covers archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, food, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, space, world history, and world literature.

JSTOR
Full-text article back file of scholarly journals, 1995 and prior, covering a wide variety of subjects, including African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, history, literature, philosophy, political science, etc.

Project Muse
Full-text scholarly journals from various University Presses that cover literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies and more.  Most journals are only full text back to the late 1990's.
 

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Internet Resources

Chinese Internet Resources

French Internet Resources

German Internet Resources

Italian Internet Resources

Russian Internet Resources

Spanish Internet Resources
 

Print Guides

How to Find French Resources in Print

How to Find German Resources in Print
 

Course Guides

GERM 4310, Seminar in German Literature: Women and War

MLL 3320, German Literature in Translation: Fairy Tales

MLL 3311, French Cinema

 
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