Databases in Modern Language & Literature
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Database details Academic OneFile

Coverage: 1980-present
Scope: A huge and highly heterogeneous multidisciplinary mix of scholarly, journalistic, practitioner and popular sources, with much direct full-text included. Use the tabs to identify scholarly, newspaper or other sources as necessary.
Notes: Scholarly, journalstic, practitioner, popular sources. Thanks to Mel
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  Cambridge Companions

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Database details Contemporary Authors

Scope: Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
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Database details Dictionary of Literary Biography

Coverage: DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Seri
Scope: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 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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Database details Google Scholar

Scope: You can check the availability of article full text from within Google Scholar - see how!.
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Database details Humanities Abstracts

Coverage: 1984 to present
Scope: Abstracts covering diverse subject areas of the humanities. Includes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Scope: Historical survey of the most important critics and theorists, critical schools, and movements in literary theory and criticism. Includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries, including the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
Notes: Scholarly
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Database details JSTOR

Coverage: 1665 to present
Scope: Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately one year ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, and statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. Especially good for historic or classic articles in most fields.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details LLBA - Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Coverage: 1973 - current
Scope: LLBA contains abstracts and indexes to the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
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Database details MLA Bibliography

Coverage: 1925-
Scope: a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details MLA Directory of Periodicals

Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Project Muse

Notes: Scholarly.
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