Modern Languages: Databases
MLA
- MLA International Bibliography (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowThe MLA International Bibliography is a comprehensive database curated by the Modern Language Association. It serves as an essential tool for researchers, providing citations in the fields of literature, linguistics, folklore, and related disciplines. It includes references to journal articles, books, and dissertations.
ProQuest One Literature
- ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new windowProQuest One Literature is a comprehensive resource for literary studies, offering access to a vast collection of primary texts, critical articles, reference works, and multimedia. It covers a wide range of literary periods, genres, and authors, supporting research in English, world literature, and related fields. It also includes rare and hard-to-find materials, making it a valuable tool for in-depth literary research.
Includes a number of other databases including Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, Literature Online, Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, and The W.B. Yeats Collection
General Databases
These are general databases that are useful for finding both books and journals. Please note that they are not always full-text and the Library may not subscribe to all the titles on them.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowindex of articles from over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and relevant articles, reviews, proceedings in more than 5,000 social science and science journals.
- Box of Broadcasts This link opens in a new windowBoB (Box of Broadcasts) from Learning on Screen is an on-demand TV and radio service specifically for educational purposes in the UK. It allows students and educators to access, record, and archive broadcast programs from over 75 free-to-air channels. Available in the UK ONLY. Use https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/trilt/ to search BoB more effectively.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowFree database consisting of references to multidisciplinary articles, theses, books and abstracts. See https://libanswers.st-andrews.ac.uk/faq/93370 for information on how to set up your preferences to link to library journal holdings.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowperiodicals archive of over 2,000 leading scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Over fifty million pages of content
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses with Full Text (PQDT) This link opens in a new windowthe world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowa large multidisciplinary abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. Covers over 19,000 journal titles.
- ThesesHow to search for theses at St Andrews and other institutions. It also includes information on how to submit a Thesis.
- Worldcat (Free version) This link opens in a new windowWorldCat helps you find books from thousands of libraries worldwide in over 500 languages.
Specialist Databases
- ARTFL - FRANTEXT This link opens in a new windowAt present, ARTFL's main corpus, ARTFL-FRANTEXT, consists of nearly 3,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions. The FRANTEXT corpus is updated as new high-quality digital texts become available.
- Bibliographie der Deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft This link opens in a new windowinternational bibliography of German language, literature and general Germanic studies
- ClasePeriodica This link opens in a new windowindex of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Over 600,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
1975 - to present; updated every 3 months. Select ClasePeriodica from the database list. - Defining Gender 1450-1910 This link opens in a new windowexplores the study and analysis of gender. Primary sources from the fifteenth to early twentieth century provide an insight into both traditional models of gender and contemporary perceptions
- East View Databases This link opens in a new windowgives access to a variety of Russian databases and publications including The Moscow Times, Moscow University Press journals, Russian Social Sciences & Humanities collection, Literaturnaia Gazeta and Pravda Digital Archive
- EUscreen This link opens in a new windowprovides free access to thousands of items of archived European TV footage
- Gallicais the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) and its partner institutions - it has millions of digital items.
- Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period This link opens in a new windowIrish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. Compiled and edited by Stephen Behrendt of the University of Nebraska, the database also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project
- Latin American and Caribbean History This link opens in a new windowA collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean, includes academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video.
- Torrossa.it! Editoria Italiano Online This link opens in a new windowCasalini libri's full text platform offers access to e-books and e-journals from over 150 Italian publishers.
See also:
- Specialist English DatabasesSee also this guide for specialist English databases
- Library A-Z list of databasesA complete list of all the Library's databases.