Suggested Resources for Foreign Languages & Literatures
Indexes & Databases Web Sites Research Help
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Password protected; ONLY UMD students, faculty and staff both on and off campus. Indexes
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Good places to start your research ...
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Academic OneFile |  |
Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. 
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Academic Search Premier | |
Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles.
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Informe | |
A collection of Spanish language magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects. |
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LexisNexis Academic | |
This database compiles, among other things, the full text of hundreds of foreign language newspapers and magazines. Go to "News," select "Non-English Language News," select the language you're working in and then do your search using non-english keywords. |
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MLA International Bibliography (Proquest CSA) | |
Index to articles on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. |
Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...
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Art Full Text | |
Indexes and provides abstracts for articles in a wide range of journals in fine arts, art history, architecture, graphic design,
photography, and other art-related fields.
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index | |
Index to articles in arts and humanities fields.
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ARTstor | |
ARTstor contains curated collections of art images and associated data. There are approximately 300,000 images in the database at the present time. Special features include the ability to create sets of images and contextual information to use and share and access to a special off-line image viewer/organizer. |
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Contemporary Authors | |
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors |
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Dictionary of Literary Biography | |
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. |
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Discovering Authors | |
Biographical and bibliographical information and references on 380 authors in North American curricula, including international authors. |
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Grove Art Online | |
Encyclopedia of visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present |
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Grove Music Online | |
Scholarly encyclopedia of over 29,000 articles about music and musicians |
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Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) | |
Index to articles on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada). |
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IIMP | |
IIMP is an index to articles about music, covering 1874 to the present and covering a range of popular magazines and scholarly journals. |
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International Index to the Performing Arts | |
Index to articles covering dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast arts, and more. |
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ITER Bibliography | |
Index to articles, monographs, essays, and dissertations on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. |
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ITER Italicum | |
Finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. |
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JSTOR | |
Full text of over 100 periodicals from first issue. A tutorial is available |
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LLBA (Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts) | |
Index to citations and abstracts about the nature and use of language. |
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Naxos Music Library | |
Over 5000 cds are available. By using Windows Media Player, you can access any of the recordings. Mostly classical music is available but there is a substantial collection of jazz and world music as well. |
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OECD Publications (also known as SourceOECD) | |
Online full-text of all publications and serials from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) from 1998 to present; also contains a large collection of data sets |
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PAIS International | |
Public affairs, political science, international studies, economics, and many related fields. |
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Patrologia Latina Online | |
Texts on Medieval philosophy, theology, history, and literature |
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Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide) | |
Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy
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Project Muse | |
Covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. |
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RefWorks | |
An online bibliographic management tool |
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Russian/NIT Publications Online | |
30 Russian newspapers accessible for browsing, searching and analyzing |
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WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty | |
U.S. and International library holdings |
Web Sites
Foreign Language News and Newspapers
Resources for French Students
Resources for German Students
Resources for Spanish Students
For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:
Rory Litwin, Reference Librarian Email:rlitwin@d.umn.edu Phone:218 726-7896 L268
