Comparative Literature

Current; JSTOR Lives of Literature supports advanced literary studies and interdisciplinary research on writers and texts critical to curricula in literature and broadens the range of authors and texts covered on JSTOR.

Current; this resource is from the well-known Contemporary Literary Criticism and offers a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.

Current; provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

1926-present; the MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The electronic version of the bibliography contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

1971-present; this online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 610,000 records of materials in all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia.

The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.

Bibliography of American Literature describes in exhaustive detail the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. The collection is essentially the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

1960-2012; the current release of the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1960 and 2012.

1990-present; ABSEES covers North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records, some with full text links, for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

Over 2,600 texts (mostly scholarly editions) ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The powerful search and retrieval engine, PhiloLogic3, enables scholars to perform textual analysis, and to limit and extend both the searches and search results from various points of view.

1985-present; BDSL is considered the most comprehensive bibliography and index of publications on German language and literary studies. BDSL Online provides citations to monographs and to articles and reviews in journals, collected studies, and newspapers from a number of international sources. Searching is available in the usual ways such as by author, title, etc., and by up to 18 thematic and chronological categories. For 1945-1984, consult the print volumes.

The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, funded by German federal, state, and local governments, serves as a portal to works from Germany's cultural and scientific institutions. Works include books, archival objects, images, film, music and sound. Currently, over twenty million objects are indexed on the site, nearly eight million of which include digitized media. Copyright information and licensing rights will differ according to participating institutions. The site is searchable in German or English.

DigiZeitschriften is a digital archive of back issues of 100+ German scholarly journals. The archive offers browsing capabilities, phrase and keyword searching of titles of articles, chapters, and tables of contents for journals in the fields of art history, economy, education, geology, linguistics, literature, mathematics, music, natural sciences, religion and sociology. Years of coverage vary from journal to journal and are listed in the "Open Access" section of the site.

1956-2011; updated annually. Klapp, Bibliographie der franzsischen Literaturwissenschaft = Bibliographie d'histoire littraire franaise is considered the most comprehensive bibliography and index of scholarly publications on French literary studies. Klapp-Online, the online edition, is an extensive index of journal articles and book chapters, covering general works, with works arranged by century and themes. It complements the MLA International Bibliography and is particularly strong in European publications. Print volumes are available for 1956-2011.

1970-present; HAPI is an online source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Included are complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in over 400 key scholarly social science and humanities journals published worldwide.