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Comparative Literature
Librarian Subject Specialist
- Michael Winter
- mfwinter@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑3058 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)
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Subject Specific Databases
- FRANCIS [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572) VPN
- Over 862,000 records covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, sciences, and economics
- Coverage: 1984-present
- Gale Literature Resource Center (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC) Proxy Server
- Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combines core literary resources such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography
- HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) (http://uclibs.org/PID/16242) VPN
- HAPI Online is the searchable Web version of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index. HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world
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- International Medieval Bibliography (http://www.brepolis.net) VPN
- Provides the most comprehensive, current bibliography of international scholarly literature in Medieval Studies available.
- Coverage: 1967-present
- Date: updated quarterly
- Location: print equivalent is in the Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Collection
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- You may need to download a special font for the diacritical marks in records to display properly. Follow instructions at the databases main page.
- You may need to download a special font for the diacritical marks in records to display properly. Follow instructions at the databases main page.
- Individual Literature Collections from Literature Online (LION) (http://collections.chadwyck.com/) VPN
- Search the full text of the following Chadwyck-Healey literature databases: 20th Century African-American Poetry, 20th Century American Poetry, 20th Century Drama, African-American Poetry (1750-1900), American Drama, American Poetry (1600-1900), The Bible in English (990-1970), Early American Fiction, Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700), Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911), Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780), English Drama (1280-1915), English Poetry (600-1900), The Faber Poetry Library, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, The W.B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995)
- MLA International Bibliography [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/mlaib/advanced) VPN
- The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) covers international scholarly materials on all languages, literatures, linguistics, and folklore from around the world. It includes citations to items from journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. MLAIB does not index book reviews.
- Coverage: 1926-present
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- Instructions on downloading filters and importing citations using Endnote (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/research/endnote/)
- MLA Directory of Periodicals (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mlaperiod-set-c&adv=1) VPN
Searchable listing of journals indexed - Quick Reference Card (http://md1.csa.com/support/QRC.pdf)PDF
- Instructions on downloading filters and importing citations using Endnote (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/research/endnote/)
- ARTFL (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/) VPN
- The "Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language," better known as ARTFL, offers access to a collection of texts in a web-based digital format, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
- Coverage: Medieval Period to 20th Century
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- Searching tips (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/philologic/manual.html)
- Searching tips (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/philologic/manual.html)
General Databases
- Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)
Direct access to several million digital objects: film,photos, paintings, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.
Selected from already digitized resources available in Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. French and German cultural institutions are particularly well-represented.
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Digital Version] (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html)
- The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas(DHI),in five volumes and edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74 (Shields Library CB5 .D52) This e-version is made available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.
- LEO: German-English, English-German, German-French, and French-German Online Dictionary (http://dict.leo.org)
- A free service of the Technical University of Munich. At somewhere near 500,000 entries LEO is the online dictionary of choice for users of the above-named languages(substantial one volume hardcopy dictionaries contain between 120,000 and 150,000 entries, so a source like this is comparable to significantly larger multivolume dictionaries). Currently expanding its coverage to include Spanish, Italian, and Chinese, making it even more valuable to comparativists.
- InterActive Terminology for Europe (http://iate.europa.eu)
- Translate from and/or to any of 24 currently spoken European Union(EU)languages. "My Preferences" feature enables user to select most-frequently used source and target languages. Although the site is useful for limited general use, its special focus is EU-specific terminology.
- Coverage: Current
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- IATE Brochure (http://IA)
Created and maintained by a consortium of official European Union agencies, including the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union.
- IATE Brochure (http://IA)
Other Resources
- UC Davis Comparative Literature Department (http://complit.ucdavis.edu/FrontPage)
- American Comparative Literature Association (http://www.acla.org/)
- The American Comparative Literature Association, founded in 1960, is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars studying several literatures.
- ECLAT: The Essential Comparative Literature and Theory Site (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/)
- Guide to Comparative Literature and Theory Internet sites.
- Yale Gateway to Comparative Literature Internet Resources (http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/complit/intsrcs.html)
- Research guide in Comparative Literature and links to selected Internet resources.
- MLA Style Guide [UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/mla.php)
- Guide to basic guidelines for using MLA Style in research papers, with link to printable PDF version of page.
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- For more information, consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2nd floor Shields Library, H/SS Protected Reference, LB2369 .G53 2003; older editions in general stacks)
- For more information, consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2nd floor Shields Library, H/SS Protected Reference, LB2369 .G53 2003; older editions in general stacks)
- A Celebration of Women Writers (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/)
- Developed by the U. of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page, this free site offers digital copies of women writers' works from antiquity to the present and bio/bibliographical web page links.
- Reference Reviews Europe Online (http://rre.casalini.it/) VPN
- C.300 English-language reviews of some 500 European reference titles. Much of the content consists of abstracts in English of reviews that originally appeared in the German journal Informationsmittel:IFB, edited by Klaus Schreiber of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. German-language publications predominate, but titles in French, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish are also covered. The "Special Reports" feature offers reviews surveying reference works in a particular topic area.
- Coverage: 1994--present
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