| MAIN INDEXES AND DATABASES |
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
1973-present |
Indexes over 1,500+ international scholarly journals and other publications in language and linguistics. |
MLA International Bibliography via EBSCOhost |
1920s-present |
Indexes 4,400+ international scholarly journals and other publications in folklore, linguistics, languages, and literature. |
Literature Resource Center (LRC) via GaleNet |
Varies |
Journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, book chapters, and websites, on 130,000+ authors and their works. Search by author, title, authors by type, genre, or literary timeline. Includes a link to Encyclopedia of Literature and Gale Literary Index. Includes Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne's Authors Online. |
Academic OneFile via InfoTrac |
1980-present |
Full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Indexes 11,000+ journals. |
General OneFile via InfoTrac |
1980-present |
Indexes 11,100+ multidisciplinary scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Includes 70+ reference sources. Covers topics in business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, etc. Formerly InfoTrac OneFile. |
| SPECIALIZED INDEXES AND DATABASES |
Handbook of Latin American Studies via Library of Congress |
1935-present |
Indexes publications on all aspects of Latin American studies. |
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) via UCLA |
1970-present |
Indexes 400+ scholarly journals about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Hispanics in the United States. |
| RELATED INDEXES AND DATABASES |
Anthropology PLUS via FirstSearch |
1800's-present |
Indexes 5,500+ scholarly journals in anthropology and archaeology. Includes all data from Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index, which combined provide an extensive worldwide index to all subfields of anthropology, plus ethnology, archaeology, and folklore. |
Arts and Humanities Citation Index via ISI Web of Knowledge |
1977-present |
Indexes 1,144+ multidisciplinary scholarly journals and other publications in the arts and humanities, with cited references. Very useful for finding articles which cite earlier articles. |
Arts and Humanities Search via FirstSearch |
1980-present |
Biography Index via WilsonWeb |
1984-present |
Indexes 3,000+ publications with biographical information. |
English Short Title Catalogue via British Library |
1473-1800 |
Catalog of materials printed in English from 1473-1800. |
Essay and General Literature Index via WilsonWeb |
1985-present |
Indexes essays and articles that have been published in 7,000+ anthologies and collections of literary criticism. |
FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Studies) via FirstSearch |
1984-present |
Indexes 4,300+ international scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. |
Humanities Full Text and Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective via WilsonWeb |
1907-present; Full text: 1994-present |
Indexes scholarly journals and popular magazines in the humanities. Full text coverage begins in 1994. Allows to search Humanities Full Text and Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective concurrently. |
OmniFile Full Text Mega via WilsonWeb |
1982-present |
Indexes 4,000+ multidisciplinary scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Provides access to information on virtually any subject. Full text coverage of 2,300+ publications begins in 1994. |
Sociological Abstracts via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
1952-present |
Indexes 2,000+ international journals and other publications in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Many records, added to the database since 2002, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. |
| INTERNET SITES |
| FIU Department of Modern Languages |
FIU |
| RELATED GUIDES AND TUTORIALS |
| Library & Internet Resources for Foreign Language Research and Studies |
FIU Libraries |