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, links to 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.
Online databases
MLA International Bibliography (MLA) 1921-
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. Printing is also possible.
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.
Literature Online (LION)
LION is a collection of texts, indexes, and reference tools. It includes over 340,000 works of poetry, drama and prose. Primary texts include English poetry from 600 to the present, American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present, The Faber Poetry Library, English drama from 1280 to 1915 and English prose from 1500 to 1900. Secondary sources include LIFT, a literary journal index with full-text of selected articles, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature from 1920 onwards (with links to articles from the JSTOR collection), the King James Bible, Webster's Dictionary, and links to other Web resources and biographical information on authors.
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.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Includes published criticism on works of selected novelists, poets, critics, dramatists, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after 1959. Each entry contains a short biography, critical introduction, and excerpts from essays and book reviews taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals, and, if available, interviews with the author. Coverage is mixed.
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.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
“W. F. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature is a pioneering and still important index to American and English periodicals. Covering the period 1802-1906, it indexes 12,241 volumes of 479 periodicals and contains more than 400,000 citations.”
The New York Times, 1851-1999/ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Includes all issues of the New York Times, 1851-1999, in full text, full image forms, including news, illustrations, editorial matter, and advertising.
Philosopher's Index
Philosopher's Index is the major indexing source for scholarly research in philosophy. It contains over 213,000 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 in more than 480 journals from 38 countries.
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.
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 (now over 2000 titles) 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.
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). Currently 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.
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.
Electronic Journal Collections – JSTOR and Project Muse
JSTOR and Project Muse are searchable collections of scholarly journal titles in various disciplines.
- Accessible through the HOLLIS catalog. Search journals by title and click on the URL link in the bibliographic record for the journal.
- Also some are listed in the Electronic Journals section of Harvard Libraries by subject area (125 titles)
Titles of interest to graduate students in literature include:
- 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. Containing searchable scanned image files of the back issues of scholarly journals, JSTOR also includes other titles in History, Philosophy, Anthropology, and other fields. Access to the backfiles of journals up to issues five years from today.
- Callaloo, Cultural Critique, ELH, Henry James Review, Literature and Medicine, Modern Fiction Studies, New Literary History, Postmodern Culture and others available via Project Muse (providing the full text of issues of journals published by several university presses).
Other Specialized Resources
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.
Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a World Wide Web server at Georgetown and provides
free, organized
access to electronic resources in medieval studies. It is easy-to-use
with menus and hypertext links to texts, bibliographies, pedagogical resources,
text, image, and archival databases, and professional information, publications,
and organizations.
American Dante Bibliography
Annotated bibliographies of Dante scholarship published in Dante Studies. Also includes Italian Dante Bibliography, 1988-1990 and Bibliography of Dante Studies in the British Isles, 1980-1993.Brown University Catalan Literature Bibliography
Primary and secondary sources.
Print Sources
(See also 6. Literature Sources)
Bibliografía española de revistas científicas
de ciencias sociales y humanidades. 1968-
[Madrid]: Centro de Información y Documentación Científica.
Widener: CD-ROM RR 169
Bibliografia generale della lingua e della letteratura italiana
(BiGLI). v. 1- 1991-
Rome: Salerno, 1993-
Widener: WID-LC PC1071.Z99 B519x
An annual compilation of works on Italian language and literature. Book reviews included.
Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft. 1960-
Frankfurt am Main: V. Klostermann.
Widner: RR 3162.6 Latest five 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).
Golden, Herbert Hershel. Modern Iberian
language and literature: a bibliography of homage studies
/ by Herbert H. Golden and Seymour O. Simches. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1958.
Widener: Rom 9030.50
Widener: Harvard Depository
Harvard Archives:HU 137.2634.3
Golden, Herbert Hershel. Modern Italian language and literature:
a bibliography of homage studies / by Herbert H. Golden and
Seymour O. Simches. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959.
Widener: Ital 6035.55
Widener: Harvard Depository
Harvard Archives: HU 137.2735
Romanische Bibliographie.
1876-
Tübingen: [s.n.]
Widener: Philol 375.3 (1884- )
Widener: Philol 375 (1875-1883)
Authoritative annual bibliography of books, articles and book chapters in romance languages and literatures. Each year vol. 1 covers language and linguistics and vol. 2 covers literature.
American humanities index, 1975-
Widener: WID-LC AI3.A278
Indexes literary reviews, including book reviews and literary works.
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 year
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 five years
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.
