Article Databases in Literature, Language, & Linguistics
ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) 
http://0-lion.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=abell
ABELL is part of the Literature Online database and covers all aspects and periods of English-language literature, linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies. ABELL indexes monographs, book reviews, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published worldwide. Includes material in languages other than English. Subject areas covered include:
Literature: poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory, studies of individual authors.
Language: syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics, dialectology.
Bibliography: manuscript studies, textual studies, history of publishing.
Cultural Studies: customs, belief, narrative, song, dance, material culture.
Includes links to the full text of over 100 journals.
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
http://0-journals.cambridge.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/action/displayJournal?jid=apl
Each volume contains essays reviewing research on specific topics in language teaching, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Online volumes begin with Volume 19 (1999).
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
http://0-isiknowledge.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/wos
1980- .
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Distributed by the Institute for Scientific Information - ISI, Web of Science at Georgetown University is a cumulation of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references - the footnotes from authors' bibliographies. You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.
http://0-www.austlit.edu.au.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Provides authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of important Australian literature works and more than 100,000 Australian authors and literary organizations. Indexes and describes the works and includes some literary criticism. Covers works from 1780 to the present day.
http://europa.sim.ucm.es/compludoc/
Citation index for articles in Spanish and other languages. This resource is maintained by the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and indexes several thousand journals in all subject areas.
Citations can be exported to RefWorks.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Contains electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Almost all "classic" works of French literature are represented.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HSR
1907-1984.
Indexes book reviews and articles from English-language periodicals, including scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary fields (including sciences into the 1950s), represented in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals.
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HUMFT
1984- .
Indexes the major scholarly English-language journals in the humanities (including history and literature). Under Open Database Selection Area, select Humanities Full Text. For prior years, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=islamicus-set-c&adv=1
Major index to articles on Islamic history and the languages, literatures, and ethnography of the Islamic world. Also available in a printed version:
Inter-American Review of Bibliography (Revista interamericana de bibliografía)
Organized by broad subjects, this quarterly publication provides references to recent articles, book reviews, and dissertations on Latin America, including (but not limited to) Latin American literature. Each issue also includes several long bibliographic essays.
International Medieval Bibliography
http://0-www.brepolis.net.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1967- .
The IMB database comprises some 300,000 records, deriving from articles published in periodicals (journals) and in miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, collected essays, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues) published world-wide. All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 400-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
http://0-www.itergateway.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
400-1700.
A bibliography of more than 225,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 300 medieval and renaissance journal titles. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, this powerful research tool will be of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Indexes publications from the mid-1800's to the present.
http://0-www.annee-philologique.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/aph/
1969-
Contains citations of all known scholarly work published in any language anywhere in the world in the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaelogy, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy. Coverage begins in 200 B.C. and ends roughly in 800 A.D.
http://0-journals.cambridge.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/action/displayJournal?jid=lta
Each quarterly issue has a survey article and lists selected articles relevant to language teachers and to applied linguistics. Includes annotations for current books. Indexing runs about a year behind.
Linguistics Abstracts
Although the limited number of articles covered in this abstract are also included in other abstracts and bibliographies, the indexing is generally more current (lag time of about one year), and the indexing terms are more specific. Focus is on theoretical linguistics, not on applied, descriptive, or historical linguistics. Many issues include an introductory survey article about a current trend in the field.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
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1973- .
Citations with non-evaluative abstracts to international scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations on the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, speech, and communication. Provides enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International and bibliographic citations for book reviews. Particularly strong in applied and descriptive linguistics and in psycholinguistics.
http://0-lion.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1996-
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 full-text works of English and American poetry, drama, and fiction with complementary criticism, reference resources, and websites. Includes over 800 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work. Also allows you to:
--search both the MLA International Bibliography and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, with links to full-text articles from over 200 literature journals.
--find a list of works by or about a particular author
--search simultaneously across primary works and secondary sources
--access 1,550 author biographies
Includes full-text databases such as African-American Poetry, Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Early English Prose Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, English Drama, English Poetry
Includes reference sources such as The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism, Encyclopedia of the Novel, New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, the King James Bible, and Webster's Third New International Dictionary
MLA International Bibliography
http://0-collections.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=mla
1926- .
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, provides access to worldwide scholarly research in over 4,400 journals and series pertaining to literature (including drama), language, linguistics, folklore, film, radio, television, and theater. Provides citations to journal articles, books, book chapters from multi-author works, dissertations, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies. Does not include book reviews. MLA International Bibliography represents all national literatures.
New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: British and American Literature to 1904
Reprints excerpts of criticism from newspapers, magazines, journals, and book-length studies. Each volume covers a different period, beginning with Medieval–Early Renaissance and ending with Late Victorian–Edwardian. Separate index volume.
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=PLAY
1949 - present
Indexes 31,000 plays published individually or in anthologies since 1949. Includes important plays in English and in translation from antiquity to the present. Useful for locating plays suited to a group's production resources, it provides a plot summary and information on cast, musical and staging requirements. Links to the Library's catalog or to online versions of plays when available.
http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu:80/journals/
Mid-1990s- (dates vary by title).
Provides access to almost 250 journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and 40 other scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. You can search across all journals in the database, selected subsets of journal titles or just a single title. Full text is available for titles marked with a green arrow.
http://0-shakespeare.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/shax/dispAdvSearch.do?prodId=SHAX&userGroupName=wash43584
The Shakespeare Collection provides online access to:
--The Arden Shakespeare (full text of scholarly editions of the complete works of Shakespeare)
--Full-text scholarly journals on literary and interdisciplinary topics (e.g., Renaissance, Elizabethan studies, Early Modern English studies, film studies)
--The First Folio, key Quartos, and major editions and adaptations from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries
--Prompt books detailing productions from the 17th century onward, from The Folger Shakespeare Library Collection, The Harvard Theatre Collection, The Shakespeare Library Collection (Birmingham, England), and The Shakespeare Centre Library Collection (Stratford-upon-Avon)
--Selected works by Shakespeare's contemporaries and other works available during Shakespeare's time
--The Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diary (eyewitness account of more than 60 years of Shakespeare productions)
--Reference materials providing background and context (e.g., Scribner's Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence and Encyclopedia of the Renaissance)
--Photographs, line drawings, maps, and other illustrations of performances
http://0-cco.cambridge.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/collection?id=SSurvey
1948-
A yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, play or group of plays; each also contains reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances.
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=SHSI
1915-present
Indexes short stories published in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Short Story Index contains the full text of over 4,000 short stories, starting with works published in 1984. Use Short Story Index Retrospective for 1915 to 1983. Search by author, title, keyword, source, date or subject, including people in the stories, genres and locales where the stories take place.
http://0-www.victoriandatabase.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/victoria.html
1945–
Interdisciplinary in scope and updated annually, the Victorian Database Online provides bibliographic information for publications about all aspects of British studies from 1830 to 1914. The database indexes books and book chapters, dissertation abstracts, and articles from more than 500 journals published in 1945 and after. In addition to literature, topics covered include painting, architecture, and music; philosophy and religion; histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British colonial empire; military and naval history; politics, commerce, and economics; sociology, women's studies, law, and education; and science, technology, and medicine. Victorian Database Online is part of LITIR's Victorian Studies on the Web which, in addition to the database, provides links to recent and award-winning publications and to notable Victorian Web sites.
