LibGuides: Modern Languages and Literatures: Find Databases

Get access to foreign language newspaper collections. Note: You will have to enter your MultiPass credentials to access these resources off-campus.

ProQuest Newspapers
Covers 51 U.S., international, and minority interest newspapers, from 1985 to present, depending on the title. Includes Spanish language newspapers.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers.

These research databases listed below are useful for starting your research. Some contain full-text articles and/or bibliographies.

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, covered in the EBSCOhost database "America: History and Life"). Over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered; includes a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature, including searchable and browsable tables of contents and full text articles from both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Comprehensive index to research in linguistics and language development.

Literary Theory This link opens in a new window
Over 1,000 works, including formal treatises on criticism, essays and manifestos, literary prefaces, theories of imagination, taste and aesthetics, and major examples of contemporary theory, by more than 350 writers trace the history of literary theory and criticism from Plato to Judith Butler.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, coverage dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Provides 100% full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.