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Core Databases
Indexes
- Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL)
International bibliography of German language and literary studies.
- DaSinD online: Datenbank Schriftstellerinnen in Deutschland 1945 ff.
Bibliography covering the works and lives of contemporary postwar female German writers and translators.
- Academic Search Complete
A full-text database with coverage of Scandinavian culture and history, languages and literature; texts are primarily in English.
- JSTOR Collection
The Journal STORage database contains backfiles of academic journals in all disciplines and many languages. Use for access to articles from the first issue of a journal to within six months to five years from the present.
- MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
The MLA International Bibliography is the core database for studies of language, literature, folklore and other cultural topics; it indexes both journals and book chapters.
- Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts indexes more than 2,300 academic historical journals in addition to books, conference proceedings and dissertations in over 40 languages; coverage dates from the fifteenth century onward.
- Web of Science
The Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index together cover several thousand academic journals. Use for citation analysis of research journals.
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
Searchable index of dissertations and some theses. The full texts of (primarily North American) dissertations and theses added to the database since 1997 are available to UBC users.
- Art Full Text
Index of journals published 1984 to the present
- Art index retrospective
Index of journals published 1929-1984.
- Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
- Germanistik
Online from 2007-2008, volume 48; volumes 1-49, 1960-2008 are in Humanities and Social Sciences Reference at PD1 G4.
- Quellenlexikon zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte (print)
Bibliography of studies on German literary history.
- Year's work in modern language studies (1930-present)
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
This essential tool for film studies, created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), indexes 300 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward.