Research Guides: Modern Languages and Literatures: Home

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KSL's library research guide for Modern Languages and Literatures provides academic resources along with streaming films, databases, news and newspapers. We offer tips on searching the library catalog along with extensive lists of individual language and literature resources.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A broad multi-disciplinary database encompassing areas in art, science, and humanities.
Ethnologue This link opens in a new window
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Catalog of the 7,000+ known living languages of the world with profiles for every language including estimated number of speakers worldwide, endangerment status, maps, language families, language classification, and dialects.
FirstSearch This link opens in a new window
Precision search interface for the OCLC Worldcat database.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of journals, books and other references in the humanities.
JSTOR (Books, journals, primary sources, & Artstor) This link opens in a new window
Provides electronic, full text access to the back files to hundreds of scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines in humanities, arts and sciences, social sciences, and business.
LDC Catalog This link opens in a new window
Includes a collection of datasets for research in linguistics, natural language processing, speech technology, and machine learning.
MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Lists periodicals in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography.
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource directs researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Offers a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in a particular field of study, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research.

Literature Databases

IBZ Online This link opens in a new window
International and interdisciplinary reference work documenting academic periodical literature in the humanities, social sciences and related fields.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance from 400 to 1700.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Index to books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage includes literature from all over the world while folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems.
Online Egyptological Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Holds the largest available collection of references in Egyptological literature and is updated often.

Quick Start: Library Research Tools

CWRU eJournal Portal This link opens in a new window
The CWRU eJournal Portal is a research tool that allows you to conveniently access the vast array of journals, periodicals, and magazines the CWRU libraries have licensed.
CWRU Online Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Contains records for all print and digital holdings of CWRU and affiliated libraries.

KSL Research Databases
An A-Z list of available databases & related resources.

OhioLINK Catalog This link opens in a new window
OhioLINK catalog to search for books, periodicals, electronic resources and other items from all member libraries.
OhioLINK Library Catalog (Classic) This link opens in a new window
Search for books, periodicals, electronic resources and other items in OhioLINK member libraries using the classic catalog interface.

Digital Case Overview

Digital Case is CWRU's digital collections repository, an openly-available online source for curated digital content. By providing easy access to Special Collections, University Archives, and our Partner Institutions' digitized materials, digital copies of rare books, manuscripts, historical images, documents, audiovisual materials, and more are available for all!

Digital Case This link opens in a new window
Digital Case is Case Western Reserve's online source for curated digital content about the University: photographs and audio recordings from University Archives (which cover historical events at CWRU), digital copies of rare books and manuscripts in Special Collections. With Digital Case, the Kelvin Smith Library assumes an active role in the scholarly communication process, providing expertise in the form of a set of services for access, distribution, and long-term preservation of Case's collective intellectual product.

Digital Case Research Guide Everything you need to know about CWRU's digital collections repository, Digital Case.

Digital Case is a multidisciplinary resource that can:

Provide unique and rich datasets
Supply distinctive primary resources
Deliver high quality downloadable materials along with their associated data

Click here to see how Digital Case can enhance your research!

Digital Case is a universal learning tool that can:

Serve as open-access learning materials for all subject areas
Increase access of data and information to the public
Bring awareness to the use of primary sources within the classroom
Supply easily downloadable materials and data

Click Here to See How Digital Case Can Assist Teaching and Learning!

Contact our Digital Collections Librarian for More Information:

Email: cxg570@case.edu

Phone: 216-368-0559

Modern Languages and Literatures

Research Services Librarian