Databases for Journal Articles and Essays
HOLLIS
Searching in the Catalog & Articles mode will bring up articles, both academic and non-scholarly. If you wish, you can limit your search results to peer-reviewed articles, and refine them further by language, publication date, subject, etc.
International African Bibliography Online
Provides a current awareness service of the latest books, articles and papers published internationally on Africa.
African Diaspora, 1860--Present
With a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France, the collection includes primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.)
Black Women Writers
Black short fiction and folklore from Africa and the African diaspora
African Writers Series
Three large collections of African and African diaspora literature.
MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
This is the standard database for scholarly research on literature, with references to articles in over 3,000 literature journals and books of collected essays from 1926 to the present. Full text is provided for many journal articles.
Literature Online (LION) includes:
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
Beginning in 1920, this index lists monographs, periodical articles, book reviews, and critical editions of English literary works. Many recent citations link to full-text articles.
America: History and Life
The primary bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, covering over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to articles, the database includes essays in edited volumes, book reviews, and citations to dissertations.
Historical Abstracts
Covering the history of the world since 1450 (except North America), this database provides abstracts for scholarly articles from nearly 2,000 historical journals, as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. Many articles are available in full text.
Film and Television Literature Index
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
These databases cover both scholarly and popular articles and book chapters. If the full text is not immediately available with the citations, use the blue "Try Harvard Library" button.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
These databases cover scholarly and professional journals and books. You might search in them for topics related to theater as memory-making, such as patriotic pageants and historical dramas.
Art Full Text
A database of articles from art and architecture periodicals published throughout the world, with full-text coverage for selected titles. Coverage includes periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.
International Bibliography of Art and Bibliography of the History of Art
These databases -- IBA and BHA -- cover European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Entries in the IBA include article citations from more than 1,200 scholarly journals from 2008 to the present. The BHA lists articles from 1975 through 2007.
ARTbibliographies Modern
The scope of this database extends from Impressionism in the late 19th century up to the most recent works and trends. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed on adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature.