LibGuides: Russian Literature and Culture: Find Articles

MLAIB

The primary database for conducting research on literature and related areas is 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.

Since the MLA is indexed in English it is usually better to search in English even if you want material in another language.

ARTStor Images

The Mummer, Bear (1911)-Alexandre Benois

costume design for Stravinsky's ballet "Petruska."

Playing Card from Kronstadt (1920)-Vladimir Ivanovič Kozlinskij

Six-Winged Seraph (1915)-Natalia Goncharova

costume design for the ballet "Liturgy"

Lovers Under a Red Tree (1966)-Marc Chagall

oil on canvas

Journals and Articles--Other Databases

American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Coverage: 1989-Present
This interdisciplinary database covers Slavic and East European studies in regards to the social sciences and humanities. Resources include journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online print or video tutorial.
MLA International Bibliography
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.
Academic Search Complete
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.
EBSCO Collections and eBooks
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.
Google Scholar
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.
NOTE: You will need to use the “Library Links” feature to indicate that you are affiliated with OU:
- Click on the three horizontal lines in the upper left-hand corner
- Choose settings at the bottom of the list
- In the search bar, type “University of Oklahoma”
- Check the boxes next to both University of Oklahoma Libraries entries (Open WorldCat is selected by default and can remain checked)
- Save your settings
If you use Zotero, please use these instructions to prevent Zotero from applying the proxy:
- Open Zotero
- Enable Zotero Connector (if not already enabled)
- Right-click on the Zotero Connector GUI icon and select preferences
- Click on the “Proxies” tab
- Click on the OU Proxy - it should read “http://login.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/login?qurl=%u”
- Another frame will open below the current one. Scroll through the hostnames list to find “scholar.google.com” and select and click on the minus (-) button.
JSTOR
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.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
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.
Project Muse
Access journals covering the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
ProQuest
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.
Web of Science
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.

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.