Modern Languages & Literature
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media 

• Reed Library Catalog: -- locate materials in Reed Library
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles 

• MLA International Bibliography: Covers literature, language, linguistics, dramatic arts and the practice of teaching language. Articles, books, book chapters, and dissertation citations from 1920-Present.  Includes a directory of periodicals. 
• Literature Resource Center: Covers writers (novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and others) with in-depth material for the 2500 most studied authors.   Includes standard reference sources: Contemporary Authors; Dictionary of Literary Biography; Contemporary Literary Criticism (Select); and the Encyclopedia of Literature.

• JSTOR: Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, General Science, Language & Literature, and Music.  Journals are not current, most having a "moving wall" or "embargo" of three to five years, depending on publication.   

Reference

• Dictionary of literary biography.   Reference  PS 88 D5
  Use cumulative index in the latest volume to locate essays about authors worldwide
• Contemporary authors  Reference  Z 1224 C6
  Biographical and bibliographical information on modern fiction and nonfiction writers
• A variety of literary and foreign language Dictionaries in the Reference Collection

Other Tools

• Literary Resources on the Net.
  Exclusive academic directory of Internet literary resources
  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit
• I Love Languages
  Languages, literature and linguistics resources. http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
• Internet Public Library - Arts and Humanities http://www.ipl.org/
• Yahoo! Reference: Dictionaries
  http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/dictionaries/