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• MLA International Bibliography Subjects covered include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.
• Informe Académico (Gale OneFile) Spanish Language materials. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. [A collection of Spanish magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.]

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• Academic Search Ultimate Academic Search Ultimate offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
• JSTOR An archive of important scholarly journals, eBooks and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Offers high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as originally published.

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Scroll down the page to see the list of journal-types. For example, you can narrow your search to journals about:

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• Project MUSE Includes 400 scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences, and mathematics and over 50,000 ebooks primarily from university presses.
• Literary Encyclopedia The Literary Encyclopedia publishes biographies of major and minor writers; scholarly descriptions of all interesting texts written by these authors, including those often neglected; and a variety of descriptive and critical essays on literary, cultural and historical matters, which provide a finer understanding of the social contexts in which this writing was produced. Offers excellent coverage of English, American, German, Russian, Italian, French and Classical literatures, as well as substantial and increasing coverage of Hispanic, Japanese, Canadian, East European and various postcolonial literatures.

The library has many volumes of Gale Literature titles, both online and in-print. Gale Literature offers the ability to search by Person, Work or Topic. Note: no new titles 2022 onward.

• Gale Literature Gale Literature – cross-search platform to simultaneously search through Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism (Contemporary Literature Criticism and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism), Something About the Author, Contemporary Authors and other literary Gale eBook titles.

An excellent browsing tool, Gale Literature Criticism is organized by Popular Topics, Popular Works and Popular Authors:

• Gale Literature Criticism Gale Literature Criticism – a reference tool that offers over 1,000 discovery portals for browsing Gale literature titles, beyond what is owned by the library. Includes articles, suggested reading lists, bibliographies and other avenues for research.
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Foreign Literatures in America (FLA) is a project devoted to the recovery and understanding of the significance of foreign authored literary works, as well as immigrant authored literary works, in the U.S. throughout U.S. history. Our principal mission is to challenge conceptions of “American literature” that turn upon the American citizenship of an author—when historically it is clear that foreign authored works, as well as works by immigrant authors who wrote in many languages and were not citizens of the United States, have long profoundly constituted an important part of the literatures and cultures of the U.S. This project thus seeks to offer many fresh opportunities to globalize the terms through which we understand American literature and American culture, both of these domains rediscovered as richly constituted and interpenetrated by global texts, concerns, contexts, voices. FLA pursues these goals by offering various means of studying the reception of foreign and immigrant authored literary works in the U.S., in interdisciplinary terms that encompass literature, culture, politics, history, and international relations. **Archival resources: **The project offers extensive archival resources of primary reception materials (i.e., accounts of “foreign” authors and works in newspapers, magazines, images, rarer archives, etc.) accessible in themselves, browsable in useful arrays, and searchable and subject to certain forms of quantitative analysis by nuanced means. Laboratories: The project develops laboratories based on cutting edge tools of machine learning drawn from recent digital humanities innovations in the areas of topics modeling and sentiment analysis; these laboratories allow users to mine large databases of “big data” already assembled for meaningful patterns and insights of literary reception. Book review pages: The project assembles its own smaller databases of book review pages from various U.S. newspapers and periodicals over time (beginning with the New York Times, The New Republic, and The Crisis), subject not only to the kind of searching and quantitative techniques of analysis found in the archival and laboratory sections, but also to comparative quantification of the most frequently mentioned authors in user-determined time frames and periodical ranges—(these book review pages thus become a powerful means of recovering forgotten literary and cultural history). Collective Forum: FLA is a committedly and internationally a collective forum for research, innovation, discussion, and collaboration, one in which blogging and various forms of collective interchange, suggestion, and crowd-sourced cooperation are facilitated—both as concerns all the research functions described above, and also toward innovation of further functions FLA could undertake. Beyond the general aims and specific outcomes noted above, there are two specific aims of this project that should be emphasized. First, in the shorter term, rather than do full comprehensive justice to any one of the functions described above, we are really trying to “open the door” with respect to them all, encouraging different teams of faculty and student researches both at the University of Maryland and around the country and world to develop dynamic possibilities for this project. Anyone interested in the kind of scholarly and analytic priorities foregrounded by the project is most warmly encouraged to contact us with your ideas and to join our project. The second point is more long term: though this project does aim to offer the means for a wholesale remapping of American literary studies (what this domain consists of, which voices and texts, why they are important), it is also a project of significance not only among university and academic research communities but also in larger social domains of education as well—including not only secondary schools and undergraduate pedagogy and also those interested in non-traditional education forms in our culture and society generally. This general goal of making a productive globalizing contribution to American education in the broadest possible terms is an ultimate aspiration for this project. The technological infrastructure for this project has been supported in part by a generous grant from  Amazon Web Services .

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• Faculty Fellowships Open Up New Avenues for Research Collaboration August 29, 2011 MITH
• Beginnings… December 7, 2011 Peter Mallios
• Searching for the Quantum Dimension of Foreign Literature December 21, 2011 Rebecca Borden
• Reinventing the Boundaries of American Literature January 9, 2012 Nicholas Slaughter
• Telling the Story of Foreign Literatures in America January 23, 2012 Jennifer Wellman
• Extremely Visible and Incredibly Close Reading of Logos February 7, 2012 Amanda Visconti
• Open Water February 20, 2012 Peter Mallios
• My Dissertation in the Year 2112 March 6, 2012 Rebecca Borden
• Archive of Emotion April 2, 2012 Katherine Stanutz
• Names of the Game April 16, 2012 Nicholas Slaughter
• Progress Update on the Modern British Archive May 9, 2012 Jennifer Wellman
• On Fish, FLA, and the Digital Humanities May 23, 2012 Peter Mallios
• An Undergraduate View of Data Mining with WEKA November 5, 2012 Peter Mallios
• Asking Questions of Lots of Text with Weka December 18, 2012 Peter Mallios
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DON'T reinvent the wheel

Many scholars have spent their entire careers in your field, watching its developments in print and in person. Learn from them! The library is full of specialized guides, companions, encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, histories and other "reference" sources that will help orient you to a new area of research. Similarly, every works cited list can be a gold mine of useful readings.

DO get to know your field

• Know Your Field , a module from Unabridged On Demand, offers tips, thought prompts, and links to resources for quickly learning about and staying current with an area of scholarly study.
• How do I find other sources that have cited a particular article or book? (Harvard Library FAQ) - also known as cited reference searching or reverse footnote-mining, this method helps you move forward from a really great source to the most recent scholarship on that same topic.
• Find Background (from the guide to Literary Research in Harvard Libraries) - how to find scholarly companions and guides that summarize and synthesize the research literature on a topic.
• Use HOLLIS to browse the literature section of the Loker Reading Room reference collection - Loker Reading Room, on the second floor of Widener, holds the most frequently consulted volumes of Widener's print reference collection. Use this browse to get a sense of the types of reference works that exist.
• James Harner's Literary Research Guide: an Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies - a discontinued classic whose 2014 edition is now freely available on GitHub. For many topics, a decades-old reference source may still be the standard. This is especially true for the types of reference sources that are less likely to be published today, such as directories, inventories, and guides to collections.

DON'T treat every search box like Google or ChatGPT

Break free of the search habits that Google and generative AI have taught you! Learn to pay attention to how a search system operates and what is in it, and to adjust your search inputs accordingly.

Google and generative AI interfaces train you to type in your question as you would say it to another person. They give you the illusion of a search box that can read your thoughts and that access the entire internet. That's not what's actually happening, of course! Google is giving you the results others have clicked on most while generative AI is giving you the output that is most probable based on your input. Other search systems, like the library catalog, might be matching your search inputs to highly structured, human-curated data. They give the best results when you select specific keywords and make use of the database's specialized search tools.

DO adjust your language

Searching often means thinking in someone else's language, whether it's the librarians who created HOLLIS's subject vocabularies, or the scholars whose works you want to find in JSTOR, or the people of another era whose ideas you're trying to find in historical newspapers. The Search Vocabulary page on the general topic guide for literary studies is a great place to start for subject vocabularies.

Learn more about searching:

• Database Search Tips from MIT: a great, concise introduction to Booleans, keywords v. subjects, and search fields
• Improve Your Search , a module from our library research intensive, Unabridged On Demand

Search technique handouts

• "Search Smarter" Bookmark Simple steps to improve your searching, plus a quick guide to the search commands HOLLIS uses
• Decoding a database A two-page guide to the most effective ways to quickly familiarize yourself with a new system.
• Optimize Your Search A 3-column review of the basic search-strategy differences between Google and systems like JSTOR or HOLLIS.

DON'T search in just one place

No search has everything. Each system is useful for some tasks and less so for others. Judicious triangulation is the key to success.

DO SEARCH A VARIETY OF RESOURCES

There's always one more site you could  search, but eventually you will experience diminishing returns. For most research projects, I recommend searching at least 4 types of systems:

• Your library catalog ,  HOLLIS
• A subject-specific scholarly index , such as the MLA International Bibliography , LION (Literature Online) , or the IMB (International Medieval Bibliography)
• A full-text collection of scholarship,  such as JSTOR or ProjectMuse
• One of Google's full-text searches,   Google Scholar or Google Books

DO look beyond the library's collections

The library purchases and licenses materials for your use. Harvard's collections are some of the best in the world. And yet: there is a lot more to discover beyond Harvard, from open-access projects on the open web to other institutions' archives and special collections. Schedule a conversation with a librarian to discover the best resources for your specific project.

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