Portals to the World: (Library of Congress)
Contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories.

Newspapers of the World on the Internet
Contains links to newspapers around the world available on the Web.

Electronic Text Collection in Western European Languages
A site maintained by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, providing links for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.

Electronic Databases

MLA International Bibliography
From the Modern Language Association.  Does not include classical literature. Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies 1963 to present; some full-text. 
 

EBSCOHOST Academic Search Premier
A collection of general reference and subject-specific research databases offering indexing and abstracting for periodical and newspaper articles; some full-text. 

 

JSTOR
Contains full-text journal articles from the 19th century up to about 2000. This is an excellent resource for older articles; sometimes, a journal may be in JSTOR but not owned by UM, so check the library catalog or "Journal Finder" before requesting an article from Interlibrary Loan.

Ingenta
Multidisciplinary journal coverage with table of contents alerting service.

Literature Online (LION)
A literary encyclopedia with references to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 147 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources Also contains references to many major foreign authors.

Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations on all academic topics accepted at accredited institutions since 1861.  In dissertations microfilmed since 1995, a free 24-page .pdf preview is available.

WorldCat
Over 36 million records of materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries.  Using the "Advanced Search", you can limit your search by format (book, visual materials) and by what is held here at UM.

 

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