4. Finding Journal Articles
In addition to the books you locate in the HOLLIS catalog, the following resources will direct you to relevant journal articles, chapters in books and, in some cases, theses and dissertations related to your topic. In some cases, the full-text of articles are also provided.
All of the following can also be found at Harvard Libraries, by clicking on E-Research @ Harvard Libraries, then clicking on Find E-Resources.
Major Online Indexes
Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Included in Literature Online's "Criticism and Reference"
section. When used through this portal, it provides access to the full
text of articles in significant number of journals. It also includes
citations to books, chapters in books, dissertations, and reviews of
scholarly titles. Coverage goes back to 1920.
JSTOR and Project
Muse (Electronic Journal Collections)
JSTOR and Project Muse are searchable collections of
scholarly journals (in full text) in a wide range of disciplines. Users
may view and link to individual titles, browse the contents of individual
titles, and seach across each collection's full text. JSTOR does not
include the most recent five years of the journals it covers. Project
Muse includes only recent years of those it covers. Some titles appear
in both collections, making coverage complete from volume 1, number 1
of the journal to current issues.
- Individual titles from the two collections are accessible through the HOLLIS catalog. Search journals by title and click on the URL link in the bibliographic record for the journal.
- Articles and journal access is also available via Citation Linker and Find E-Journals in E-Research
- Comparative Literature, Shakespeare quarterly, American Historical
Review, Renaissance Quarterly, Speculum, African American Review,
American Literature, MLN, Nineteenth Century Literature, Representation,
Yale French Studies and others in Asian Studies and Slavic
Studies are available in JSTOR.
- Callaloo, Cultural Critique, ELH, Henry James Review, Literature and Medicine, Modern Fiction Studies, New Literary History, Postmodern Culture and others available via Project Muse.
Among the titles of interest to graduate students in literature are:
MLA
International Bibliography (MLA) 1926-
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language
Association, consists of citations to materials in literature, modern
languages, linguistics and folklore. The MLA provides access
to scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers
relevant monographs, book chapters, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies
and dissertations.
The drop-down menus provide for searching by various means (keyword,
author of the article, etc.) and searches may be limited by date, type
of publication, language, etc. From the results screen, citations or full-text
may be e-mailed by selecting that option either from the abstract screen
or the full-text.
The link to the MLA Directory of Periodicals allows for browsing
or searching for titles. Entries include notes on the scope of the journal,
publication, editorial and submission details, submission requirements,
et al.
Other Specialized Indexes and Resources (listed alphabetically)
Articoli italiani di periodici accademici (AIDA)
AIDA is the main bibliographic index to Italian scholarly journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, covering about one thousand journals for the years 1997-present.
Arts
and Humanities Citation Index
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts
and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities
journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from
over 7,000 major science and social science journals. Because the information
stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list
or bibliography, you can also search the database for articles that cite
a known author or work.
Anthropological
Literature
Anthropological Literature (AL) indexes articles in periodicals,
monograph series, and edited works in archaeology, biological and physical
anthropology, cultural and social anthropology and linguistics, and selectively
in such related fields as: art, botany, demography, economics, ethnohistory,
folklore, genetics, geography, geology, history, music, mythology, political
science, psychology, religion, sociology.
AL indexes articles of two or more pages in length from works
in the Germanic, Romance, Scandinavian, and Slavic languages, as well
as English. The AL database includes works held in Tozzer Library
(formerly the Peabody Museum Library) from the 19th century onward. A
list of indexed publications is available from the "Help" link.
AL, produced and copyrighted by Tozzer Library, Harvard University,
is an online version of the quarterly print publication, Anthropological
Literature. New citations are added quarterly to the AL file of over
500,000 citations.
Austriaca
The "Austriaca" database provides online access to the full range of publications of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. This includes the full text of encyclopedias, handbooks, monographs published within series, journals, newsletters, and working papers.
Bibliographie
der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft Online (Epplesheimer-Köttelwelsch)
This index is considered the most important bibliographical resource
for German language and literary studies. The scope of this online resource
goes back retrospectively to 1985 (the print bibliography goes back to
1945). It covers scholarly publishing on an international scale in several
languages.
Bibliographie internationale de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance
DigiZeitschriften
This database provides page images and increasing full text of periodicals in Economics, English Languages, Geology, History, Law, Librarianship, Literature, Philology, the Sciences, and Sociology.
FRANCIS
FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary
information in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular
emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Updated monthly,
FRANCIS covers 1984 to the present.
Historical
Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is a reference guide to the history of
the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and
Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Over
2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database,
including key historical journals from virtually every major country.
Citations (some full text via JSTOR) often include abstracts (in English).
In addition to articles, Historical Abstracts includes citations to
historical books and to abstracts of dissertations. The database contains
the entire print backfile from 1954 to the present; it is updated monthly.
- To enter you’ll first see “Click here to access your subscription.” Then click on Historical Abstracts, then select Advanced search.
- Enter keywords, click on search
- From short entry display, click on Display full entry to see citation and abstract.
To e-mail citations and abstracts, click in box next to “Tagged,” from either short or long display screen. In left side bar, click on Output options; fill in selections: tagged entries, e-mail button and fill in To: with e-mail address/SUBMIT.
IBZ (Internationale
Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur)
The IBZ is an index to academic periodical literature mainly
from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. It includes over 2,400,000
journal articles from about 10,700 primarily European and American journals
from 1983 to the present.
International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBR)
This is an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews. The database indexes thousands of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, primarily from Europe and North America, from 1971 to the present.
ITER
– Gateway to the Renaissance
Iter, meaning a journey or a path in Latin, was created for the advancement
of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
(400-1700) through the development of online resources, including (among
others): Iter Italicum, P.O. Kristeller's listing of uncataloged,
or incompletely cataloged, humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance,
in Italian and other libraries around the world; the Iter Bibliography of more than 600,000 records for articles, essays, books and reviews;
and a growing list of related databases and web sites.
Linguistics
Abstracts Online
Linguistics Abstracts Online provides abstracts from dozens
of linguistics journals in a variety of linguistics fields covering articles
written from 1981 to the present and is intended to meet the information
needs of all involved in research into linguistics. Its focus is the theory
and practice of general linguistics, not the various applications of the
subject, nor the descriptive or historical study of individual languages
or dialects, unless the study bears on some general issue in linguistic
theory.
Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Indexes and abstracts for over 1200 journal titles. International in
scope, LLBA also covers books, book chapters, bibliographies,
monographs, etc. in all areas of language and linguistics. Subject coverage
includes phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics as well
as descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical
linguistics.
Periodicals
Index Online
A retrospective index to articles in over 3500
scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from their
first issues through 1990/91. Journals in English and other European
languages are indexed. PCI includes the complete table of contents
for each issue of each journal. Covers journals from North America,
the United Kingdom and the rest of the English-speaking world and journals
in other European languages including French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Philosopher's
Index
Philosopher's Index is the major indexing source for scholarly
research in philosophy. It contains bibliographic citations with author
abstracts and covers major articles from anthologies and books written
in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French, as well as articles
published since 1940. Coverage is international.
Topics covered include all major fields of philosophy, including aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic (including mathematics), metaphysics (including philosophy of mind, existentialism, and phenomenology), political philosophy (including philosophy of law), social philosophy, and the philosophy of education, history, language, science and religion. This file is the Web-based version of the printed Philosopher's Index, and it is updated quarterly.
CD-ROM Indexes
AIDA [computer file]: articoli italiani di periodici accademici.
Osnabrück, Germany: Felix Dietrich Verlag, computer laser optical
disks.
Widener: Loker Reading Room, see Reference staff for access to this title.
A database of citations to journal articles from 1000 scholarly titles in the humanities and social sciences covering the period 1997-2001. Searchable by keyword, author, title of article, year, page citation, subjects, title of journal, publisher. Includes Italian library locations for the journals indexed. While some duplication with literature journal indexing in the MLA is evident, the database includes titles in art and architecture journals, local history journals, cultural studies, history and social sciences journals so that it complements searching in the MLA for some subjects.
Romanische Bibliographie [electronic resource]
Tübingen: M. Niemeyer Verlag, 2000-
Widener: CD-ROM RR 173 RBS (Consult Widener Reference for access to this
title)
Print Sources
(See also 6. Comparative Literature Sources)Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft.
1960-
Frankfurt am Main: V. Klostermann.
Widner: RR 3162.6 Latest 5 years; WID-LC Z 2171 .B56 Earlier years
An extensive index of journal articles and book chapters, covering general
works, works arranged by century. For the 19th, sections devoted to Bibliographies
and references, Histoire des Idées, Etudes littéraires,
Thèmes et motifs, Langue et vocabulaire, Relations et influences,
genres, and Romantisme, Réalisme, Naturalisme, Symbolisme, followed
by the authors section. Exhaustive, scholarly citations. (Some overlap
with the MLA International Bibliography).
French XX bibliography. no. 21- 1969-
New York: French Institute-Alliance Française.
Widener: RR 3162.13 Latest five years
Widener: WID-LC PQ305 .F7x Earlier years
An index of journal articles, books and book chapters arranged by topic,
such as Francophone literature, Literary history, themes, topics, theory
and by genre (novel, poetry, theatre). A chapter is devoted to Philosophy,
Pyschology and Religion. The largest number of citations appear in Part
2, Authors-Subjects. (Note: Some duplication with the MLA, but
coverage in some areas differs and coverage of book chapters is extensive
in French XX).
The Year's work in English studies. 1- 1919/1920-
London, Published for the English Association by Blackwell Publishers
[etc.]
Widener: RR 3102.10 Latest; Widener: 10477.20 Earlier years
Child Memorial: Ch M 994
The Year's work in modern language studies.
v. 1- 1929-1930-
London [etc.]: Modern Humanities Research Association [etc.]
Widener: RR 3003.24 Latest 5 yrs.
Widener: Philol 340.5.12 Earlier years
Annual publication with extensive bibliographical entries covering several
language and literature families (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic).
French Studies has sections on various periods including Twentieth Century,
1900-1945 and Twentieth Century since 1945. Early and Late Medieval, 16e,
17e, 18e, Romanticism, 19e and Francophone literatures are also covered.
General works and works on individual authors, topics, genres included.