World Languages & Literature: Find Articles

A guide to performing research in the languages and literatures of the world.

Journal Title Search

If you have an article title, search for it at Google Scholar from the PSU Library.

Enter the title of the article in the Google Scholar search box.
If PSU Library has the article online, there will be a link, Find it @ PSU.
Find it @ PSU leads to the full text article record with one or more databases to access it. Be sure to sign in to access the article.

If you have an article citation, see whether or not the PSU Library holds the full text or print article:

1. Use Google Scholar from the PSU Library web site, enter the title of the article in the search box.

2. If the article is available in full text or print, click on Find it @ PSU.

3. The Download Article link provides the full text article, the journal level for it, or the call number for the article in print.

If PSU Library does not have the article in full text or in print, order the article from Interlibrary Loan & Article Delivery.

Online resources for discovering articles and books in literature and the humanities:

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes citations to journal articles, dissertations, and books about world literature, literary criticism, language, linguistics, and folklore from 1921 to the present.
JSTOR
Contains full text articles from major research journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage of most journals starts from the beginning of a journal's publication and typically excludes the most recent three to five years.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Offers full text articles on critics, and literary theorists as well as critical and theoretical schools and movements.
Literature Online - LION
Includes reference works, biographical sketches, bibliographies, and secondary criticism of British and American literary works. Offers full text of some novels, poems, dramas, and prose.
Literature Compass
Publishes an online-only, peer-reviewed journal that features survey articles of the most important research and current thinking across the literature discipline.
Literature Resource Center
Provides reference, literary timelines, and articles on authors, journalists, and critics from all literary periods. Covers literary genres such as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Indexes journal citations and other publications covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.

North Korean Serials
Article-level indexing for the North Korean Serials from the Library of Congress

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The North Korean Serials Databases (NKSIP) is an online article index database that provides access to articles about a variety topics included in the North Korean serials collection.
Project MUSE
A leading provider of digital humanities content, Project MUSE provides books and journals from leading university presses.

Romantic Era Redefined
Features the full text of Romantic-era literature focusing on poetry, prose, drama, letters, and diaries along with political, philosophical, scientific, and sociological works between 1800 and 1830.
International Medieval Bibliography
Indexes citations to journal articles and book chapters about the Middle Ages covering Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa from 300 to 1500.
Historical Abstracts
Find citations to academic articles on world history (except the U.S. and Canada), from the 15th century to the present.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The online bibliography covers literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
L'Annee Philologique
The online database of the bibliography published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, L'Annee Philologique indexes scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

ERIC (EBSCO interface)
Includes citations and full-text access to education research found in journals, books, and grey literature.
Gender Studies Database
Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases. Provides citations to journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, government reports, and working papers as well as theses and dissertations.
LGBT Life with Full Text
Indexes and contains full text of international literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transexual, and transgender issues.
ProjectMuse
Indexes citations for books and articles as wells as full text articles and ebooks from scholarly presses.
Academic Search Premier
Provides selected full text, scholarly, and peer reviewed articles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Ethnic Newswatch
Includes current newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and community publications of the ethnic, minority, and native presses. Includes scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies. Provides full text in English and Spanish.