MLAIB
The primary database for conducting research on literature and related areas is the MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB). It indexes books, articles, and websites on literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), folklore, and the history of printing and publishing. Book reviews are not included.
OU subscribes to the MLAIB through EBSCO, so the interface may look familiar to you. However, the database has certain unique features.
- Search indexes such as genre, literary technique, literature topic, primary subject author, and primary subject work.
- Build your search using the database's Thesaurus.
- Use the Names as Subjects feature when you're not sure how to spell a name or whether to use a pseudonym.
- It is generally better to do your keyword searches in English, even if you want results in French. For example, a keyword search for Le Clézio AND identity produced 16 results, including articles in French, German, Spanish, and Chinese.
The Modern Language Association has created several tutorials to help you use the bibliography.
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.
Journals and Articles--Other Databases
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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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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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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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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 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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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.
