Literature (other than English) Online Resources

Databases
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*360Search
Click on "Modern Languages". 360Search will then simultaneously search a number of databases that contain modern language related sources.

*Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group′s core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

  • *LitFinder
    Search the full-text of over 125,000 poems and thousands of stories, essays, plays and speeches. Also includes biographical information, poetry explications, etc.
  • Modern English Collection / UVA
  • *MLA International Bibliography
    Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, this database consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
  • *Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition (1982 -)
    Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad. Includes Humanities Full Text, Reader′s Guide Full Text.
  • *WorldCat
    The world′s most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 42 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from the world′s libraries. Now includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.

Online Journals & Newspapers
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  • *Blackwell-Synergy
    A collection of over 800 online journals from Blackwell Publishers.
  • *JSTOR Literature Journals
  • *Literature & Language Online Journals (SerialsSolutions List)
  • *Oxford Journals Online
    A large collection of online full text journals from Oxford University Press.
  • *El Pais
  • *Le Monde
  • *Newsbank
    "A comprehensive, full-text news resource consisting of more than 500 regional, national, and international newspaper and newswire services." This link also access the NewsBank Academic Library Collection, Global Newsbank, Newbank Retrospective, and several individual newspaper titles including digital image editions of Die Welt, El Pais, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, and the New York Times.
  • Online Newspapers.com
    Directory of world newspapers.
  • *Project Muse
    Provides 100% full-text, user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
  • Renditions 
    Renditions, published by the Research Centre for Translation, is the leading international journal of Chinese literature in English translation. First published in 1973, its issues cover over 2000 years of Chinese literature, from classical works of poetry, prose and fiction to their contemporary counterparts, as well as articles on art, Chinese studies and translation studies.
  • World Without Borders: the Online Magazine for International Literature
    Our ultimate aim is to introduce exciting international writing to the general public -- travelers, teachers, students, publishers, and a new generation of eclectic readers -- by presenting international literature not as a static, elite phenomenon, but a portal through which to explore the world.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.

Selected Online Reference Sources
Note: Many reference sources remain in print such as Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Literary Criticsm
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Websites General Chinese

French

  • ABU: la Bibliotheque Universeele
    L′accès libre au texte intégral d′oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993.
  • ArtFl Project (University of Chicago)
    The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.
  • Athena
  • BUBL Link: French Literature
  • Charles Baudelaire′s Fleurs du Mal
    Fleursdumal.org is dedicated to the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), and in particular to Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil). The definitive online edition of this masterwork of French literature, Fleursdumal.org contains every poem of each edition of Les Fleurs du mal, together with multiple English translations — most of which are exclusive to this site and are now available in digital form for the first time ever.
  • Clandestine E-Texts
  • Creating French Culture: Treasues from the Bibliotheque Nationale
  • CUNY′s Ressources Internet Francophones
  • The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d′Alembert
    This site has been designed to make accessible to teachers, students, and other interested English- language readers translations of articles from the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d′Alembert in the 18th century.
  • French Language and Literature Resources / Vanderbilt
  • French Literary Criticism (Internet Public Library)
  • French Literature Links (DMOZ)
    The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
  • French Studies Web
    The French Studies Web provides annotated links to scholarly web resources and includes sites of particular interest to librarians specializing in Western Europe. It does not strive for exhaustiveness. Where possible, links to high-quality, scholarly meta-sites are given.
  • French Medieval Drama Database Project (BYU)
  • French Texts (U of Virgina Electronic Text Center)
    We provide free access to any texts that we can legally make publicly available. These texts are not necessarily public domain. The texts that are marked UVa only are copyrighted editions restricted to University of Virginia users only; they are often commercial products whose vendors place these restrictions on us.
  • Gallica (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
    Gallica propose un accès à 90 000 ouvrages numérisés (fascicules de presse compris), à plus de 80 000 images et à plusieurs dizaines d′heures de ressources sonores. Cet ensemble constitue l′une des plus importantes bibliothèques numériques accessibles gratuitement sur l′Internet.
  • Literature of the French Middle Ages
  • Literature and Culture of Franco-phone Africa and the Diaspora
    This bilingual site features selected Internet resources on primarily Francophone African & Diasporic cultural expression. Here, users can access annotated descriptions of web sites dedicated to literature, theater, music, dance, the visual arts & cinema, as well as sites whose focus is rather the sociocultural context in which such artistic creation occurs.
  • Old French Literature Texts
    Some texts plus links to other collections.
  • Paris: Capital of the 19th Century (Brown)
    The project, "Paris, Capital of the 19th century," initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture.
  • Portals to the World - France (Library of Congress)
    Selected web resources.
  • Persee
    Welcome to PERSEE, the website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research.
  • Poesie Francaise
    Bienvenue sur le site Poésie française créé par Webnet, société de conseil et d′ingénierie e-business. Vous aimez la poésie, nous aussi. C′est pourquoi nous avons sélectionné plus de 6000 poèmes de langue française, du Moyen Âge au début du XXème siècle.
  • Revues.org
    Full-text access to Frenchjournals in social ahd human sciences.
  • Tennessee Bob′s Famous French Links (UT Martin)
  • Textes Francaise (Athena)
  • Yale University French Language & Literature Sources
German

Italian

  • Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze
  • Biblioteca della Letteratura Italiana
  • Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
  • Decameron Web
    Through a creative use of technology, our project provides the reader with an easily accessible and flexible yet well-structured wealth of information on the literary, historical and cultural context of the Decameron, thus allowing a vivid yet rigorously philological understanding of the past in which the work was conceived.
  • Digital Dante (Columbia U)
  • Duecento: la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante
    Il Duecento è un archivio che raccoglie testi della poesia italiana antica, del periodo che va dalle origini fino a Dante. Nel corso degli ultimi anni, ho raccolto un grande corpus testuale, probabilmente il più grande archivio del genere, e comunque l′unico disponibile in rete.
  • Italian Language and Literature Resources / Vanderbilt
  • Italinemo
    The ITALINEMO (italianistica nel mondo) project was established to facilitate the implementation of both initiatives. The website presents a regularly updated bibliographical database, which allows the retrieval of bibliographical records collected, since 2000, from a large (and growing) number of Italian and international journals. The selected periodicals focus on Italian literary and cultural studies.
  • Intute: Italian Studies
  • Italian Women Writers Project (University of Chicago)
    The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. Our goal is to bring information on and texts by both famous and previously neglected Italian women writers to a wider audience of students, scholars, teachers, and the general public, and to preserve these often fragile texts for generations to come.
  • Liber Liber: Biblioteca
    Collection of texts.
  • Nuovo Rinascimento
    La Banca Dati Telematica "Nuovo Rinascimento" accoglie testi elettronici di opere di autori italiani, saggi, bibliografie, materiali didattici e materiali informatici in generale, pertinenti alla storia e all′attualità della letteratura e della cultura italiana. I dati sono a disposizione di chiunque voglia consultarli, utilizzarli, diffonderli a fini di lettura e di studio. È proibito farne qualsiasi uso di tipo commerciale.
  • Resources for Italian Literature (U of Illinois, UC)
  • WESSWeb Italian Studies Web (Yale)
    The Italian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Italian Studies. We do not strive for exhaustiveness but rather for quality. The resources organized here have undergone a selection and evaluation process. If needed, annotations have been provided augmenting the research value of these resources to scholars.
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