Selected Resources for: Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
| Subject Librarian: Kate Brooks E-Mail: kabrooks@umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers: the historical, theoretical and critical studies of national literatures in their interrelations and in their relations to other disciplines; the characteristics of and relationship between genres, themes and motifs; international literary movements. |
Abstracts and Indexes
* Premier Resources *MLA International Bibliography   MLA International Bibliography is reverting to its original FirstSearch interface.; Articles from over 4,000 periodicals published worldwide in all languages. Also indexes essays and includes relevant citations from published conference proceedings, etc. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| Art Full Text Art Full Text, produced by The HW Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. There is full-text coverage for selected periodicals. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Art Index Retrospective Art Index Retrospective covers 55 years (from 1929-1984)of art journalism, criticism and research from leading sources. The publications covered focus on advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ArtBibliographies Modern Index and abstracts of articles from periodical articles, books, exhibition catalogs, and index entries for dissertations. Covers all aspects of late 19th and 20th century art, including decorative and applied art, with particular reference to photography and three-dimensional design. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Communication and Mass Media Complete A comprehensive resource for articles relating to various forms of communication, Communication and Mass Media Complete provides journal articles on topics such as mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more. The database provides full text for more than 285 journals, and indexing or abstracts to nearly 600 journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| EBSCO MegaFILE The EBSCO MegaFILE is one of the world's largest academic research databases, containing both abstracts and full-text articles. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film and Television Literature Index This database can be used to find articles on film studies' topics. It is an index to over 300 core publications covering the film medium, and a selective index an additional 300 (journals indexed). Date of indexing starts in 1865 (The Nation), although more recent is more common (example: Film and History, 1970 - present, or Journal of Popular Film and Television, 1990 - present). Use the Find It link to link to any articles available online, or to find print holdings in the Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas. Updated, uniform subject headings facilitate your search, with the original subject headings also provided. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| JSTOR Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Periodicals Index Online PIO is an electronic index to the tables of contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed. PIO currently indexes over twelve million journal articles in over 3,500 journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Project Muse Index to full-text collection of journals in literary theory, classics, history and cultural studies, philosophy, film, theater and performing arts, political science, and mathematics. From Johns Hopkins University Press. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Theses Canada Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Victorian Database Online This database covers the British Victorian period, from about 1830 to the beginning the War in 1914. It is interdisciplinary, containing information on publications from 500+ journals on painting, architecture and music, philosophy and religion, histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the British colonial empire, sociology, women's studies, law and education, science, technology and medicine, and literature. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Web of Science (ISI) Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature An international, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and up-to-date online periodical database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Indexes, Other
| Index To Theses accepted for higher degrees in the universities of Great Britain and Ireland [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LitFINDER LitFINDER provides either the full text or a citation to a print source in which to read any of 125,000 poems, 5000 stories, 2800 essays, 1000 plays, and 1800 speeches, with new material added regularly. You can search by many ways, including author, subjects, nationality, and time period. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Designed to promote access to scholarly research and increase sharing of knowledge, this database provides free online access to thousands of theses and dissertations from all over the world. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Poem Finder Covers poetry from antiquity to the present; it contains 500,000 citations for poems by 70,000 authors from 1,800 anthologies, 2,600 single-author collections, and 4,000 periodicals. Contains the full text of some poems online. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs| English Short Title Catalogue Provides descriptions of English-language materials produced before 1801, primarily books and other printed materials (books, pamphlets, broadsides, songs, advertisements, etc). The records include information about the libraries holding an item. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| WorldCat Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources| Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Please note: BGMI allows only one U of M - TC user at a time. If you are denied access, please wait 15 minutes and try again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Contemporary Authors Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references for approximately 100,000 authors from around the world. Check MNCAT for various related sections of the Contemporary Authors series. To search this title separately:
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| Dictionary of Literary Biography A valuable resource providing background information on important literary figures.Use the index in the latest volume. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This reference work provides 50,000 specially-written signed biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dictionaries
| Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Expanding on the original Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1974), edited by Philip Wiener, the New Dictionary has a broader scope introducing global- and gender-neutral perspectives not present in the earlier print edition. In 700 accessible articles, alphabetically arranged, a distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dissertations and Theses
| Center for Research Libraries Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database This database is no longer being updated. The titles included in this database as well as almost 600,000 other dissertation titles are cataloged in CRL’s catalog and in OCLC’s Worldcat. We update our catalog and Worldcat daily. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Digital Dissertations Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities: http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/CICUniversities.shtml [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities A directory of eletronic thesis and dissertations in the humanities. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| American Film Institute Catalog The AFI Catalog contains information on American films made between 1893 to 1970. A great subject index makes it possible to find films on various topics, such as urban life, homosexuality, or food, etc. Can also be used to look up filmmakers, cast and production credits, plot summaries, historical and source notes. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory Approaches, scholars, terms. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| ArchiveGrid ArchiveGrid is a tool for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives, libraries, and museums around the world. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, The The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism provides 226 alphabetically arranged entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography with extensive cross-referencing with hyperlinks. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Oxford Reference Online This resource brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| Key Sources in Comparative and World Literature [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Literary Research Guide: A Guide to Reference Sources for the Study of Literatures in English A guide to reference sources for the study of literatures in English and related topics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites| Literary Resources on the Net A collection of links to web sites dealing with all aspects of literature--especially English and American. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research Link to valuable web sites in all areas of humanities. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Multimedia Materials
Image Resources| ARTstor ARTstor is a new cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Journal Titles| E-Journals Search Use to search for electronic magazines, newspapers and journals that the University Libraries provide online. Please also see our Electronic Journal Collections. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Primary Source Materials
Archival Materials| Online Finding Aids, University of Minnesota Search some 3,400 finding aids to collections of archival material at the University of Minnesota Archives and Special Collections. A finding aid is a guide and inventory list to a collection of archival materials, personal papers, or manuscripts. For more information about this resource, please see the Finding Aid FAQ or contact the Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals
| Bibliographic Formats and Descriptions Provides citation format samples from major style guides: the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers; Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA); compiled by the University of Houston Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites| Electronic Text Research Center - Archival Site The Electronic Text Research Center at the University of Minnesota Libraries is no longer in operation. The materials that were digitized through the ETRC's projects are still available from the University of Minnesota Libraries E-Text website at: http://www.lib.umn.edu/books/etext.phtml. Some of the CD-ROM based and other texts formerly housed in the ETRC are available for use in 180 Wilson Library. Others have become part of the circulating collection. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Library Information
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