Subject Databases

MLA International Bibliography 1963-
Indexes journals & other publications in language and literature.

JSTOR
Full-image archival database of scholarly journals. The most current issues, 2-5 years, are not included due to publishers' restrictions.

Project Muse
Online collection of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. MUSE covers many different subject areas including literature, history, political science, economics, education, film, philosophy, religion, and womens studies.

Oxford English Dictionary
An historical dictionary of English, showing not only current meanings of words, but also tracing their development over time.

Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and excerpts of critical studies of authors from every age & literary discipline.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier- Funded by the New Jersey State Library and the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative     
Indexes journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, ethnic studies and more. Provides full-text articles from more than 3200 scholarly periodicals. (EB)

Wilson OmniFile 1982-
Abstracts and indexing for over 4,000 periodicals in many subjects. Full-text for over 2,000 periodicals. To search the literature section of the database, click on the arrow to the right of the Subject Area box and select "Humanities.”

Useful Internet Links

VoS - Voice of the Shuttle
                 Major web site for humanities research.

IPL - Internet Public Library/Literature
                 Links to librarian recommended, frequently updated web sites.

Literary Resources on the Net
                 Major links to Internet resources from a Rutgers English professor.

Web English Teacher
                 K-12 teaching resources.

Writing:

Elements of Style
                 Rules of usage and basics of composition for writers of English.

Roget's Thesaurus
                 Find the right word.

OneLook Dictionaries
                 Meta search engine for nearly 500 web-based language and subject dictionaries.

E-Books:

On-Line Books Page
                 Links to over 13,000 books in English. Search for items by author, title and subject. 

Project Gutenberg
                 Thousands of classic books, most published in the 1920's or earlier, with emphasis on literature, philosophy, religion and reference works.

Languages

Language Dictionaries and Translators
                                   http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html

Language Links
                                   http://babel.lss.wisc.edu/links.htm

AltaVistas Babel Fish
                                   http://babelfish.altavista.com 

Spanish

IPL – Internet Public Library – Spanish
                                   http://ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum40.40.00

About Spanish
                                   http://spanish.about.com/?once=true&

Latin World
                                   http://www.latinworld.com

Latin American Network Information Center
                                   http://info.lanic.utexas.edu

Learn Spanish
                                   http://www.studyspanish.com

EspanOle!  On-line Resource for Students and Teachers of Spanish
                                   http://www.espanole.org/

The Cervantes Project
                                   http://csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/V2/CPI/main.htm

French

IPL – Internet Public Library – French
                                   http://ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum40.30.00

Parlez-Vous Francais?
                                   http://www.parlez-vous.org

Embassade de France
                                   http://www.info-france-usa.org

TennesseeBob’s Famous French Links
                                   http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html