Classical Studies

Description: Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) covers all aspects of the study of language. All of the various fields of linguistics are included such as descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Contains some full text.
Time Period: 1973 to present
Sources: Indexes more than 1,500 serial publications and thousands of books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Psychology, Social Sciences (Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics)
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Books/e-books, Conference Papers, Dissertation and Theses, Journal Articles, Reviews
Information Included: Abstracts,Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: Yes
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Updates: Monthly
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Description: MLA International Bibliography is an electronic version the print index published by the Modern Language Association beginning in the 1920's. Subjects include literature, language, folklore, linguistics, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Contains some full text articles.
Time Period: 1926 to present
Sources: Indexes nearly 5,000 journals and series.
Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Humanities, Mobile
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Journal Articles
Information Included: Abstracts,Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: Yes
Print Equivalent: MLA American Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures, MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Updates: Monthly
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Description: JSTOR allows you to search across approximately 2,000 journal titles from more than 50 disciplines. It contains complete backfiles of scholarly journals starting with the first issues, many of which date back from the 1800s. Although the majority of titles do not have the most recent 3 to 5 years available in full text, there are some which have the current issues available.

Note: Additional content has been permanently added to JSTOR, including archived journal collections and primary resources. Searches performed using the databases page link will include results from the additional sources, as will the link above.

Time Period: 19th century to present
Sources: Provides the full text for approximately 2,000 journals.
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Business, Education, English & Linguistics, General, Health, History, Humanities, Law, Mobile, Music, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, Technology 
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Citations, Journal Articles, Reviews
Information Included: Full Text, Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: JSTOR
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Description: Project Muse is a full text database of journals in disciplines such as art, literature, history, political science, and economics. Some full text will come from JSTOR, in PDF format.
Time Period: 1993 to present
Sources: Indexes more than 300 journals.
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, English & Linguistics, History, Humanities, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Books/e-books, Citations, Journal Articles
Information Included: Journal Articles
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Description: MagillOnLiterature Plus contains information about 8,500 authors of fiction, poetry, and drama. It has biographical essays covering the 2,500 most studied authors. These entries include up-to-date lists of each author's principal works and current secondary bibliographies. The database also has more than 400 comprehensive essays on specific literary genres, themes and settings.
Time Period:
Sources: More than 36,000 analyses of literary works, 16,000 biographical entries, 150 volumes of reference works, and 8,200 book reviews.
Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Humanities
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Reference Resources
Information Included: Abstracts,Full Text,Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: EBSCO
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Description: Literature Criticism Online provides access to scholarly and popular commentary from books and periodicals, broadsheets, pamphlets, and encyclopedias published in Gale literary criticism titles. Content is delivered in an online format that matches the print originals.
Time Period: 19th century to present
Sources: Contains articles and reviews from more than 1,100 volumes of literary criticism.
Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Humanities
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Books/e-books, Magazine Articles, Reference Resources
Information Included: Full Text, Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: Contemporary Literary Criticism
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
Poetry Criticism
Short Story Criticism
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
Publisher: Gale
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Description: Literature Resource Center is a great source for background information on major authors and their works. It includes biographies and basic literary criticism of the works of novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of the most-studied authors. Consider using in conjunction with Literature Criticism Online.
Time Period: 1973 to present
Sources: Indexes or contains the full text of more than 480 magazines or journals and 42 reference titles.
Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Humanities
Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly
Primary Materials:
Information Included: Full Text
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: Contemporary Authors
Publisher: Gale Group
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited