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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Index of scholarly materials for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film. Provides citations to journal articles, books, book chapters, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. Coverage: Early 20th century to the present.

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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Discover information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. This full-text database includes major respected reference works, books, literary journals, study guides, 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
Search full-text scholarly articles, book reviews, biographical essays, and overview essays on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world. Includes full text of thousands of poems and short stories published in contemporary journals and magazines.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online This link opens in a new window
Searchable bilingual disctionaries and study materials that are helpful when learning a new langague.
Languages included: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish

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ARTFL Project This link opens in a new window
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Explore over 3500 texts in the French language ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of prose: history, philosophy, art and literary criticism, and technical writing. Coverage: 12th-20th century.
BITRA: Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation This link opens in a new window
Free index of scholarship in the fields of Translation and Interpreting.
Celebrating Cuba! Collaborative Digital Collections of Cuban Patrimony This link opens in a new window
An open access digital collection that celebrates Cuban patrimony. Brings together digitized material from libraries across the globe focusing on Cuban culture, history, literature and more. Collection includes maps, legal materials, books, journals, and newspapers
Central & Eastern European Academic Source This link opens in a new window
Read the full text of publications pertaining to central and eastern European countries.
English-Corpora.org This link opens in a new window
Search the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the largest corpora of its kind available, with over 1 billions words from a variety of texts including popular magazines, newspapers, spoken language, academic journals and fiction. Coverage: 1990-2019. .
Users must create an account for this resource.
Chicano Database (EBSCO Interface) This link opens in a new window
Discover citations to articles, books and more on Chicano/Mexican-American topics; it also includes the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Subjects include education, arts, humanities, psychology, politics, and sociology. Coverage:1900-present
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Aims to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Find article citations from over 600 publications covering film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Full text is available for select journals.

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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Find articles in Spanish and Portugeuse from 485 scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are included. Coverage: 1920s-present
Greek and Latin Inscriptions: Digital Squeezes This link opens in a new window
Greek and Latin Inscriptions is a collection of digitized squeezes (accurate paper impressions) of inscriptions from Greece, Italy, and Macedonia. The squeezes were contributed by the Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies at The Ohio State University.
Loeb Classical Library Digital Edition This link opens in a new window
Search and read Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations. Also classifies each work by language, form, genre, subject, and date.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa. Coverage spans from 1900 and earlier to present.
MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Directory of 4400 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. Provides addresses, advertising rates, circulation stats, submission information, acceptance rates, and timelines 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
A comprehensive digital library of Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 CE. Browse more than 12,000 works from 4,000 authors. You can also search for specific Greek words and read texts in original 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
Access ended 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.

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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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Multidisciplinary "Web of Science" databases covering the journal literature in the areas of the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global) This link opens in a new window
Search millions of citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day. Includes downloadable 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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Search the full text of over 11,000 academic journals covering arts, humanities, math, medicine, science, engineering, computer science, and social sciences.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Find citations of academic historical journals covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to present.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
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Find article citations from over 1,900 publications containing articles, essays, reviews, poems, fiction, photographs, paintings, and illustrations. Includes full text for hundreds of journals, books, and other publications.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Electronic archive of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication.
The collections include: Arts & Sciences I-VIII, Business Collection I-III, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature.

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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