Suggested Resources for Foreign Languages & Literatures

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Informe		A collection of Spanish-language magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	LexisNexis Academic		Business, law, medical, news
	MLA International Bibliography		Index to articles on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Art Full Text		Indexes/abstracts journal articles in fine arts, art history, architecture, graphic design, photography, and other art-related fields.
	Arts and Humanities Citation Index		Index to articles in arts and humanities fields. Please use the Arts and Humanities Citation Index located in Web of Science.
	Grove Art Online		Encyclopedia of visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present
	Grove Music Online		Full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)		Index to articles on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).
	International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text		A music journal index with detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular.
	International Index to the Performing Arts		Index to articles covering dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast arts, and more.
	ITER Bibliography		Index to secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
	ITER Italicum		Finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world.
	JSTOR		Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines.
	LLBA (Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts)		Index to citations and abstracts about the nature and use of language.
	Naxos Music Library		Streaming audio of primarily classical music, but some world music, folk music, and jazz are also included.
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs.
	Patrologia Latina Online		Texts on Medieval philosophy, theology, history, and literature
	Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide)		Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy.
	Project Muse		Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
	RefWorks		An online bibliographic management tool.
	Russian/NIT Publications Online		30 Russian newspapers accessible for browsing, searching and analyzing.
	SourceOECD (now called OECD iLibrary)		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
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		U.S. and International library holdings

 

 

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Resources for French Students

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Research Help

 

  

For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Gabriel Gardner, Reference Librarian

Email:gardnerg@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-6609

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