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 Spanish. For example, a keyword search for Cervantes AND metafiction produced results in English, Spanish, and Japanese.
The Modern Language Association has created several tutorials to help you use the bibliography.
Databases--Journals and Articles
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Clase and Periodica This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1975-present
Provides access to documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and technology. Materials indexed include essays, book reviews, books, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes from nearly 2,600 scholarly journals in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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HAPI This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1960s
Provides complete bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Includes topics on current political, economic, and social issues. Some full text is available.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Hispanic Life in America Series 3: 2010-Today This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 2010-present
Combining deep historical content with current sources, Hispanic Life in America provides primary source documents related to Hispanic American life. This database is continually updated to reflect the latest news in government, business, and arts - from U.S. immigration policies and the response at the U.S. southern border, to the Dreamers and the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), as well as the ongoing influence of Hispanic American businesses, politicians, musicians, athletes, and others.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1500-1926
Sabin Americana contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Resources include books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, and military actions.
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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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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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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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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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.
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.