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ARTFL Project
Database of classical French writings that includes literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.

Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.

Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text)  Discus

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Clase/Periodica
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities and PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together they offer access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

ITER
A bibliography of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for articles; bibliographies; catalogues; abstracts; and discographies are included.

Année Philologique (L'Année Philologique)
L'Année Philologique is an index of publications related to the history, language, literature and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome. It is published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, under the direction of Éric Rebillard, with the American Philological Association and the Database of Classical Bibliography, Dee L. Clayman, General Editor, with the support of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) et du National Endowment for Humanities (USA). Search by modern or ancient authors, texts, title or subject.

Literature Resource Center (Full Text)
provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

Literary Index
Index to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, etc. Search by Author, Title, or Subject.

MLA Bibliography
The Modern Language Association's comprehensive index of scholarly journals and series in literature, languages, and folklore. Covers 1963 to the present.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately 140 journals.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.

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Print and Electronic Resources

The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
REF PE 2808 M43


Annual Bibliography of English Language and Lliterature

REF PR 33 M69

Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon
REF PT 155 K6

A Greek-English Lexicon
REF PA 445 E5

L'Année Philologique: Bibliographie Critique et Analytique de L'Antiquité Gréco-Latine
Classics Department
online version

MLA International Bibliography
REF PN 81 M64

The Oxford Classical Dictionary
REF DE 5 O9

Oxford Reference Online : Bilingual Dictionaries
Includes Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Latin.

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Internet Resources

Ethnologue
Online version of the standard directory of languages of the world, 13th edition. Searchable.

The Human Languages Page
Catalog of language-related Internet resources. Online lessons, dictionaries, literature and schools.

VCU Trail Guide to International Sites & Language Resources
Index of sites for language learning, cultural resources, and travel information in French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.

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