MLA International Bibliography
The definitive database for finding scholarly articles on Chinese literature and related topics is the Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) online. It indexes over 66,000 books, articles, and websites annually. Topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theatre), folklore, and the history of printing and publishing. Book reviews are not included.
OU subscribes to the MLA International Bibliography through EBSCO, so the interface may look familiar to you. However, the database has certain unique features:
- You can search indexes such as genre, literary technique, literature topic, primary subject author, and primary subject work.
- You can build your search using the database's thesaurus. This will allow you to focus your search using MLA's descriptors (controlled vocabulary).
- It is generally better to do your searches in English, even if you want results in Chinese. For example, a search for Subject Chinese literature AND Keyword women produced 1,200 results, of which 231 were in Chinese.
- Create a free account with EBSCO to save your research into folders, remember your searches, and be notified when new articles matching your search terms are added.
The Modern Language Association has created several tutorial videos to help you to research efficiently and effectively.
Where is the Full Text?
For a step-by-step explanation of how to get an article you've found in a database, see this guide.
Journal Articles, etc.
Please note that the library does not own all the journals and other materials cited in these databases. Where full text is not linked to the citation, use the OU Link to check the catalog or request the material via interlibrary loan.
Click here to access a list of e-journals to which OU subscribes related to Chinese literature, history, politics, culture, etc.
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ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1971-present
This resource covers business and management topics with information on more than 60,000 companies through journals, newspapers, executive profiles, reports on market conditions, and in-depth case studies of global business trends. Includes Snapshots North America, Oxford Analytical Research, The Wall Street Journal, and MIT Sloan Management Review.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive, multidisciplinary database covering social sciences, humanities, education, physical and life sciences, and ethnic studies with access to more than 7,000 peer reviewed journals and over 75,000 videos from the Associated Press.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online print or video tutorial.
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China Academic Journals This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1994-present
Provides access to Chinese journals in the areas of politics, law, literature, history, and philosophy.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new window
Columbia International Affairs Online provides access to materials in international affairs, including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals, and policy briefs.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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EBSCO Collections and eBooks This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a multidisciplinary collection of over 50 databases and thousands of eBooks covering the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Select the databases most appropriate for your research topic and search them simultaneously. Some full text is available.
Note: In June 2024 University of Oklahoma Libraries migrated to the new EBSCO platform. Some features from the previous ESBCO platform are currently unavailable on the new platform. As EBSCO works to activate these features, the legacy platform is still available for features you cannot use on the new interface. Please note that the legacy site will be retired in August 2025.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorials.
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ERIC This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1966-present
An online library of education research, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Materials indexed include journal articles and research reports (ERIC Documents). Some full text is available.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial or the University of Oklahoma Libraries' tutorial.
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Ethnologue This link opens in a new window
This resource provides information profiles for every living language and country on earth. It includes maps of where each language is spoken as well as statistics for a given country or region and guides on language endangerment.
Copies of portions of the content of Ethnologue may be made for research or educational purposes only in accordance with the Ethnologue Fair Use Guidelines.
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Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author, and Gale Virtual Reference titles in literature. Resources can be cross-searched simultaneously. Content includes includes biographies, critical essays, reviews, full-text articles, and audio files.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1954-present
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Materials indexed include abstracts to books, journals, and dissertations.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online print or video tutorial.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database is a digitized archive of the backfiles of selected scholarly journals. Provides access to materials in African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, general science, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1973-present
This database covers all aspects of the study of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics, including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1926-present
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database is an index covering topics in literature, language, linguistics, film, rhetoric and composition, and folklore. Materials indexed include journals, books, working papers, translations, dissertations, websites, and conference proceedings.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online print or video tutorial.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Access journals covering the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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ProQuest This link opens in a new window
A collection of databases available from ProQuest on various subjects, including business, economics, history, biology, newspapers, art, politics, philosophy, earth and atmospheric sciences, and psychology.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1861-present
Indexes U.S. doctoral dissertations completed at accredited institutions since 1861 and dissertations and theses, most with abstracts, from the U.K. and Ireland since 1716. This database includes some dissertations from Canada and Europe, as well as some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Most OU dissertations are full text through summer 2013; after that date, find OU dissertations in SHAREOK. Most dissertations from other institutions, 1997 to present, are full text. To obtain full-text pre-1997 dissertations, use the interlibrary loan.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1900-present
Multidisciplinary index covering leading scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Includes the Web of Science core collection and the following databases: Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents Connect, Grants Index, KCI-Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Preprint Citation Index, ProQuest Dissertation and Theses Citation Index, SciELO Citation Index, and Zoological Record. Some full text is available.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1975-present
Covers international literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. This database combines Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI and includes over 800 journals.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.