Language & Literature Databases & Indexes
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO). 1985+. A multi-disciplinary database offering full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles.Literature Resource Center - Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, produced by Thomson-Gale. (1 simultaneous user)
MLA Bibliography. 1926+. A bibliography of scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4400 journals and series and 1000 book publishers. About 75% are language and literature journal articles. You can limit your searches by the following languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.
Humanities
Abstracts. 1984+
In print under various titles 1907-1996. Reference AI 3 S6
Contains citations from more than 465 periodicals in
archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore,
history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy,
religion and theology.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective. Indexing of over 1200 periodicals, some going back as far as 1907. Also has coverage of many important scientific journals up to the 1950s.
JSTOR. Archive of scholarly journals. Truman campus has access to the Arts & Sciences I and II collections, Ecology & Botany collection, and General Science collection.
Project MUSE. Full-text titles from over 100 scholarly journals in the Basic Undergraduate Collection.
Anthropological Index Online. Free to the public to search.
ARTFL Project,
years of coverage varies
Over 2000 French texts from the 13th-20th centuries are included, ranging from
classical works of French literature to various kinds of non-ficiton prose and
technical writing.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. Full-text access to a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets, and broadsides from the early 1800s, based on Ralph R. Shaw's and Richard H. Shoemaker's "American Bibliography, 1801-1819. Part of the Readex Archive of Americana database.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), 1966+
On
the Web through
FirstSearch
On the Web throughAskERIC.
Free to the public.
ERIC is a comprehensive database containing abstracts of journal articles,
reports, curriculum guides, conference proceedings, etc. It covers all areas of
education including language learning and teaching. ERIC Documents
1993+ are available online.
ITER:
Gateway to the Middle ages & Renaissance
A bibliography of articles from selected interdisciplinary journals pertaining
to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), years vary by journal title.
L'Année
Philologique Online. Database published by the Société
Internationale de
Bibliographie Classique covering volumes 30 to 73 with more than
480,000 bibliographic records.
Unless otherwise indicated, databases are restricted to use on the Truman State University network.
Print Indexes
Communication Abstracts, 1967-2001
Reference P90 C65
Provides coverage of recent literature in the areas of general communication,
mass communication, advertising and marketing, broadcasting, communication
theory, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication, small group
communication, organizational communication, journalism, public relations,
radio, public opinion, speech, and television.
Essay and General Literature
Index,1900-2001
Reference AI 3 E752
A detailed index by author, subject, and some titles to essays published in
books.
Reference P87 M37, beginning dates vary to 1990
Often referred to as the Matlon guide, this subject and author index covers a number of important communication journals.
Language Teaching, 1982+
In print only under various titles: Periodicals PB35 L322
Indexes scholarly journals on learning and teaching languages.
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