LibGuides: Modern and Classical Language Studies Databases: Databases

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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Provides over a million citations to scholarly publications in literature, modern languages, and linguistics. Updated monthly.

Translation Studies Bibliography
This growing bibliography includes more than 24,500 annotated records in the field of Translation and Interpreting (T&I) Studies.
L'Année Philologique
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Core database for scholarship in the study of Greek and Roman civilization. This includes literature; linguistics; political, economic, and social history; attitudes and daily life; religion; cultural and artistic life; law; philosophy; science and technology; the history of classical studies and more.

Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
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Literary Reference Center Plus is a comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC Plus combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and more.
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
This resource provides online access to the full-text to all 10 of the Thomson Gale Literature Criticism Reference Sets, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, etc. Provides access to criticism (excerpts or full-text) published from an author's own time to the present as well as biographical and bibliographical information.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Literature Resource Center provides access to: full-text scholarly articles, book reviews, biographical essays, full text of thousands of poems and short stories published in contemporary journals and magazines, overview essays on thousands of books and literary topics, links to editorially selected websites on authors and their works, pictures, audio interviews and more.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online This link opens in a new window
This resource offers fully searchable comprehensive bilingual dictionaries and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning languages. Currently includes Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish.

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ARTFL Project This link opens in a new window
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Consists of 2000 texts in the French language ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
BITRA: Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation This link opens in a new window
This free database indexes scholarship in the fields of Translation and Interpreting. It contains over 35,000 entries. Created and maintained by the faculty at the Universitat d'Alacant in Spain.
Celebrating Cuba! Collaborative Digital Collections of Cuban Patrimony This link opens in a new window
A deep open access digital collection that celebrates Cuban patrimony. A joint project of the University of Florida (UF) and the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí (BNJM). Brings together digitized material from libraries across the globe focusing on Cuban culture, history, literature and more.
Central & Eastern European Academic Source This link opens in a new window
Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS) provides full-text coverage to hundreds of publications pertaining to central and eastern European countries. The collection covers many academic areas including business and economics, medical sciences, political science, law, library and information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, and sociology relating to this geographic region.
English-Corpora.org This link opens in a new window
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English. It was created by Mark Davies of Brigham Young University in 2008. Sources include popular magazines, newspapers, spoken language, academic journals and fiction.
Users must create an account for this resource.
Chicano Database (EBSCO Interface) This link opens in a new window
Identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos; it also includes the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Central American immigrants. Among the included subjects are education, humanities, psychology, and sociology. Updated quarterly.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
This database contains of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Scope includes The American Revolution, The French Revolution and The Industrial Revolution. Features full-text search capabilities. Resource types include books and directories, Bibles, sheet music, sermons, pamphlets and more.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Covers the literature about television and film writing. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews

Foreign Language Videos
Includes the ViewPoints Project, a collection of foreign language video clips in which native speakers discuss aspects of their culture, family, daily life, and more. Videos are in QuickTime format and include contents, country, grammar and vocabulary notes. (NOTE: use limited to students, staff, and faculty of OhioLINK member institutions.)

Fuente Academica This link opens in a new window
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Fuente Academica provides scholarly journal articles in Spanish covering many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. This database covers 260 scholarly Spanish language journals from respected publishers worldwide.
Loeb Classical Library Digital Edition This link opens in a new window
Loeb Classical Library Digital Edition invites you to enjoy its Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations, in the familiar ways and in surprisingly new ones.

Every work is classified by language, form, genre, subject, and date, making both navigation and browsing for unexplored treasures far easier than facing all those volumes on the bookshelf. Are you looking for a person or place, a quotation about love or wealth, or how a particular word has been translated in a work, by an author, or across the entire Library? You will find it quite easily, for every word of the Greek, Latin, and English is fully searchable. And whatever you find in the Library can be saved and organized as you like in your own digital workspace. You can even share your bookmarks and notes with other users, such as colleagues, students, classmates, and friends.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian studies This link opens in a new window
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies is a bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa . This database contains more than 639,000 records and coverage spans from 1900 and earlier to present.
MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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MLA Directory of Periodicals lists over 4400 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication.
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (EBSCO Interface) This link opens in a new window
Describes material on the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe Ñ books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. Updated bimonthly.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new window
TLG is a comprehensive digital library of Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 CE. There are over 12,000 works from 4,000 authors in the database. Its strengths are searching for specific Greek words across multiple works or simply reading the texts in the Greek.
First-time users need to register for an account in order to gain access to the full corpus. Click "register" link in upper right.
Transparent Language Online This link opens in a new window
Access ends 06/30/2023.
Transparent Language Online is a language learning tool.
You will need an account to access this resource and track your progress. You may use your Kent State or personal email, but you must create your account while on-campus, on the VPN, or using the KSU proxy. Once you have an account set up, you can access the product either on or off campus, or use the app by logging in.

Vente et Gestion (French Business Source)
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Full-text coverage for French language business journals. Includes articles on accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, and technology.

Interdisciplinary Databases of Possible Interest

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Access the full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering diverse academic areas of study.
Areas of study include social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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See entry for Web of Science Core Collection.
Citation Indexes This link opens in a new window
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Three multidisciplinary "Web of Science" databases covering the journal literature in the areas of the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Updated weekly.
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global) This link opens in a new window
Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (OhioLINK ETD Center) This link opens in a new window
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Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students. Includes links to full-text.
Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window
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Full-text coverage of selected journals in the areas of arts, humanities, math, medicine, science, engineering, computer science, and social sciences. This link gives the current status of access to EJC titles. For some, links are provided through publishers' web sites.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Contains references about the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
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Humanities International Complete provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles, and full text of hundreds of journals books and other publications. The database includes citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is an electronic archive of complete journal backruns, current to within 2 to 5 years. The collections include: Arts & Sciences I-VIII, Business Collection I-III, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature. For Kent State University, students and faculty now have access to 381 JSTOR journals representing over 2 million articles.

WorldCat
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Contains records to over 100 million items in most (if not all) subject areas. Materials may include books, computer data files and programs, films, journal and magazine titles, newspapers, manuscripts, musical scores, and more. Not included are individual articles, stories, or book chapters. Updated daily.

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