Foreign Languages Subject Guide
Article Databases
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These indexes to journal articles are listed in approximate priority order. Sometimes, in addition to journal articles, these sources index other forms of publications as well, such as essays in books or dissertations. The titles of these indexes suggest the subjects they cover. Students may need to use more than one of these indexes to search for pertinent articles. In some cases the indexes not only cite articles we own in print but also in electronic full-text. In other cases, however, we won't own the journal at all and you will need to request a copy of the article you want through Interlibrary Loan.
If you want to find out which of our indexes can be limited to search by entries in languages other than English, please go to the library's home page, then under "Find It" choose "By Type or Format" and then choose "Non-English Resources. Or simply click here:
http://www.wmich.edu/library/guides/find/nonenglish.php
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) Indexes periodicals and series, monographs, book collections, dissertation abstracts, Festschriften (books written to honor a particular scholar), and other sources. Areas covered include modern languages and literature, folklore, linguistics, literary themes, genres, and related topics across national literatures and other classified boundaries. Covers from 1963 to the present. Updated 9 times per year. Has citation tools for Refworks, Endotes and Procite. It also has a personal folder option to save articles and citations.
Z 7006 .M64 (Ref. Index Shelves) (1921-present)
ERIC The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Coverage is from 1975 to the present.
Librarian's Comment: The Advanced Search lets you restrict searching to specific foreign languages.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Indexes and abstracts all aspects of language study including linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Some of the physical and medical aspects of language are also included, such as speech pathology. About 1,500 English and foreign language sources are indexed. Coverage: 1973-present. Updated monthly.
HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index This index leads to information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. It indexes articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many of the citations are linked to full text. Coverage from 1970 to date.
Repere Indexes about 560 French-language periodicals in all subject areas, published in Quebec, elsewhere in Canada, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Coverage goes back to 1980 and is updated daily.
Project Muse Project MUSE offers nearly 250 journal titles from some 40 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, economics, and others.
Center for Research Libraries - Foreign LanguagesStart with this link to French literature to explore a large and varied repository of research material about foreign languages all over the world. The Center for Research Libraries loans books, newspapers, journals, microfilm, and other research materials to our students and faculty. Consider their resources as an extension of our collections that can be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
Librarian's Comment: Use this link to explore a large and varied repository of research material about French from all over the world. The Center for Research Libraries loans books, newspapers, journals, microfilm, and other research materials to our students and faculty. Consider their resources as an extension of our collections.
Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) Indexes virtually all doctoral dissertations and many masters theses produced in the U.S. since 1860 and many from foreign schools as well. Abstracts available from 1980. Full text for most dissertations available from 1997. Some authors choose to not make their dissertations available. Print and microfilm copies are offered for a fee, but check out Interlibrary Loan before paying for a copy.
- RefWorks Info: Dissertations and Theses (Proquest) will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)
Humanities Abstracts Indexes more than 465 major humanities journals in art, history, literature, philosophy, religion, music, and related areas. Coverage from 1984, abstracts from 1994 to the present.
Humanities Index.
AI 3 .R492x (Ref) 1974- present.(From 1907 to 1965 this was called International Index and from 1965 to 1974 it was called Social Sciences and Humanities Index.) This source indexes older journals not in our more recent electronic indexes.
Historical Abstracts Indexes and abstracts over 2,100 journals, books, and dissertations in world history, excluding the US and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Searches by subject, author, title, time period, or document type. Coverage: 1955 to present. Updated monthly.
This subscription is limited to six simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Literature Online (LION) A full-text database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literary criticism from over 200 literature journals and various reference resources. Includes biographies, bibliographies, and links to Web sites. This database has a personal folder option where you can save articles. This database also has a citation export feature into Refworks, and Endnotes. This subscription is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Librarian's Comment: Although restricted to English and American literature this resource may be very useful to comparative literature faculty and students in foreign languages.
Includes separately searchable full-text databases of some well-known as well as some not so well-known literary works in English and American poetry, drama, prose fiction, and criticism from the year 600 to modern times. The 22 databases can also be searched at one time. Besides the actual literary texts there are quick links to selected literary criticism through the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. This bibliography, in turn, includes full-text articles from some of the journals. It is possible, then, not only to have a keyword searchable edition of a literary work available from LION but some interpretations of that work as well. The Bible in 21 versions, 11 editions of the complete works of Shakespeare, all of W.B. Yeats's works, 52,000 poems by 20th century American poets, and 250 complete 19th century English novels are just some of the texts included.
Poem Finder (LitFinder) More than 125,000 full-text poems and over 850,000 poems indexed. Search by any word(s) in a poem title, first line, last line, book title, author, or subject. International in scope (in English translation) and covers antiquity to the present.
Librarian's Comment: You can search by non-English languages but not more precisely only by one foreign language.