Journal Articles: Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies
- Literature Resource Center (LRC)LRC covers over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, eras, and places. LRC combines several Gale series components (Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online) together with portions of other Gale Literature Criticism series, and more than 260 academic literary journals. Coverage includes authors from the Middle Ages (Hildegard von Bingen) to the present (Isabel Allende), writing in French, German, and Spanish.
- LitFinder This link opens in a new windowGale's LitFinder provides access to more than 135,000 primary sources (126,000 full-text poems, 5,000 full-text stories, and 1000 full-text plays, over 2000 essays from the 16th-20th centuries, and over 1,800 full-text speeches) as well as secondary materials such as author biographies. LitFinder covers all time periods and is international in scope.
- JSTORJSTOR has digitized the complete full-text of the backfiles of over 400 scholarly journals, many of which date as far back as the 1800s. Generally, coverage extends up to, but not including, the most recent three to five years of any given journal. JSTOR contains 134 journals devoted to language and literature, including the Yale French Studies (1948-2006), German Quarterly (1928-2005), and Hispania (1917-2003).
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowEBSCO's Academic Search Complete provides "with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals." Full-text titles include: Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, (03/01/1997 to present, with a 12 Month delay) German History (02/01/1998 to present) and Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, (03/01/2000 to present, with a 12 Month delay.)
- Academic OneFileExpanded Academic ASAP from Infotrac is a broad based periodical database, covering social sciences, arts, humanities, and science. Approximately 3,000 magazines and journals are indexed (some as far back as the 1980's), and full-text is provided for over 1,900 titles, generally beginning in the late 1990's. Titles include: French Forum, (2001 - Current); German Politics and Society, (March 22, 2001 - Current); Journal of Latin American Studies, (Feb. 1, 1993 - Current).
- Project MuseProject Muse provides the full-text to over 300 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including French Studies, Canadian Studies (with the journal Francophonies d'Amerique,) and Latin American Studies.
- Wiley Online LibraryWiley's periodicals are peer-reviewed primary research and survey journals. Titles of interest include: German Life and Letters, (1997 to present; also available through Academic Search Premier, however with a 12 month embargo); Renaissance Studies, (1997 to present); and Early Medieval Europe, (1997 to present).
- Oxford Journals OnlineAnother small database of publisher-specific journals, this time from Oxford University Press. Two relevant journals are French History, (1996 to present) and French Studies, (1996 to present).
