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Start at the library home page, and click the Databases tab at left. Click the initial letter of the database you are looking for in the A-Z listing, or browse the titles on the page. Click the name of the database you are looking for.
The MLA International Bibliography is focused on modern languages and literature, containing over 2.8 million records.
In addition to the bibliography, the database includes:
Using the MLA International Bibliography begins with a search. The bibliography offers many search options, which can be selected and combined to tailor the results to the researcher’s specific needs. These options include:
• literary authors and their works (e.g., “Achebe, Chinua”; “Things Fall Apart”)
• subject terms, including people, characters, places, periods, movements, and subject matter (e.g., “Wordsworth, William,” “Lake District,” “1700-1899,” “Romanticism,” and “landscape”)
• titles of articles, books, and other scholarly works indexed in the bibliography
• academic authors and their works (e.g., “Butler, Judith”; “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”)
• language of publication (e.g., “French language”)
• date of publication (e.g., “2014,” “2005-2015”)
• limit to peer-reviewed journal articles
A searchable list of all the subject terms in the bibliography and their related terms can be found in the MLA Thesaurus, included with every subscription.
