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Cover of JugendDatabases and Indexes:
Finding Articles

ONLINE INDEXES TO ARTICLES:

The following are available to the Hopkins community: on campus, or via the Proxy access, or the VPN network.

(1963-present). The best overall database for literary studies.  Provides access to scholarly research in over 4,000 journals and series.

An essential tool to cover German language material that the MLA does not. Earlier years are covered in print format (see below). Includes secondary literature (articles, essays in books, books, dissertations and reviews), bibliographies, Forschungsberichte, primary works, editions, letters, biographies.

Hermes has been decomissioned

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Covers the scholarly literature on the history of the modern world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Includes abstracts of articles and citations to books reviews. Also includes abstracts for dissertations. Coverage extends back to 1964.

(1904-present) Indexes over 1600 of the major journals in the humanities and its disciplines. With full text coverage from 200 publications.

(1975-present) Citation index to over 1,144 arts and humanities journals. Provides information on articles and all bibliographic references cited in them.

Indexes millions of articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences since 1770.  Includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and other Western languages.

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Index to scholarly articles, books, anthologies, and contributions to anthologies in philosophy and related disciplines. The Index includes more than 550 journals from more than 40 countries. Coverage back to 1940.

Searches the online journals of the JHU Press. Fulltext of articles now includes other presses as well; including Oxford University, Carnegie Mellon, MIT Press, Duke University.

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Encompasses fine arts—painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture—as well as decorative and applied arts—crafts, graphic arts, and folk and popular art. Contains more than 665,000 records drawn from 1,400 journals, as well as books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, selected art dealers’ catalogues, doctoral dissertations and microform publications. Coverage back to 1973.

Covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Focus on humanities and social sciences.

A comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.


PRINT INDEXES TO ARTICLES 

While online databases are wonderful for finding more recent articles, most older material, and much of the specialized material from European journals, will be only indexed in print indexes. Be sure to check them as well, as needed.

For a complete listing of indexes in the following areas, see these online Guides to Finding Secondary Literature :

French Literature
Francophone Literature
German Literature
Italian Literature
Spanish Literature
Latin American Literature

(Note: PDF files. Requires Adobe Acrobat).

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