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Modern Literatures | Selected Electronic Journals



The Library subscribes to a number of databases that provide access to electronic journals. Databases of interest to students of literature are listed immediately below – links to further resources and individual journal titles pertaining to literature are listed in alphabetical order further below:

  • American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900: APS Online contains digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Coverage starts with Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and extends to the early years of WWII. Included are special and general interest publications, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, as well as many other titles of historical significance.
  • Cambridge Journals Online: Provides access to the full text of CUP Journals, such as Journal of American Studies, New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Research International, Theatre Survey, and Victorian Literature and Culture, and other important CUP titles. Coverage varies.
  • DIGI Zeitschriften: Provides access to page images of back issues of German language publications, some back to the 19th Century. Some of the titles covered are Shakespeare Jahrbuch; Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie; Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur; and Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur.
  • EBSCOhost: Dates of coverage vary, going back to 1975. Click on Academic Search Premier to access this large academic multi-disciplinary database that provides full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including for more than 2,700 peer-reviewed journals. Updated daily.
  • Directory of Open Archives Journals (DOAJ): Contains 27 journals belonging to Subject: Languages and Literatures.
  • Factiva: Formed by the merger of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters, Factiva has a strong business focus, but contains close to 8,000 sources from 118 countries and 22 languages, including newswires, newspapers, magazines, tv and radio transcripts. Useful for reviews on contemporary authors.
  • Gallica: The Digital Library of the French National Library, Gallica, contains numerous periodicals in pdf or page image mode. These include such titles as Modern Language Notes; Modern Philology; Philological Quarterly; Romanic Review; and more (some of these are not available in electronic format elsewhere). To access these, click on "Recherche" and then "Périodiques."
  • Harper's Weekly: Covers the Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877). Leading shaper of American public opinion in the second half of the 19th Century, with a circulation of over 100,000 and an estimated readership of half a million people. Note: Harper's Weekly, 1850-1899, is included in the Making of America (Cornell).
  • IngentaJournals: Provides access to over 28,000 full text titles in all disciplines. Includes international titles.
  • JSTOR: Journal Storage Project: Provides access to the full text of articles in major journals in history, economics, literature, philosophy, and other disciplines from the first volume generally up to 1995/96.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Contains full-text documents from over 5,600 periodicals, with an emphasis on news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Useful for literary research for articles and reviews on contemporary authors and titles, for example, from the New York Times. One may restrict searching to specific national and foreign-language newspapers.
  • Making of America (Cornell) and Making of America (Michigan): Both sites provide full text access to differing collections of 19th and early 20th Century American periodicals.
  • Oxford Journals: Provides access to the full text of OUP Journals, such as American Literary History, The Cambridge Quarterly, Essays in Criticism, Fench Studies, Notes and Queries, The Review of English Studies, The Year's Work on English Studies, and other important OUP titles. Coverage varies.
  • PCI Full Text: Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from 1770 to 1995, and includes selected full-text titles. Dates of full-text coverage vary by title.
  • PERSEE: A French database similar to JSTOR in providing full text in pdf format to back issues to prestigious journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (there is a moving wall of three to five years depending on the journal). PERSEE is free of charge and the first phase of the project includes journals such as Les Annales; Bibliothèque de l’école des chartes; L’Homme; and Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps.
  • Project Muse: Provides full-text access to recent volumes of over 40 journals in the humanities and social sciences published by Johns Hopkins University Press and over 50 journals of other university presses. Project Muse is working with JSTOR to harmonize their holdings.
  • ProQuest Newspapers: Provides full text of the Chicago Tribune (1890-1955); New York Times (1851-2001); Washington Post (1871-1988); and Wall Street Journal (1889-1987). Contains full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. For further full text to newspapers, please refer to the Library's News Services and Newspapers subject guide.
  • Reader's Guide Retrospective: Provides indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. Contains some full text with coverage from 1890 through 1982.
  • Times (of London) Digital Archive, 1785-1985: The full text of the Times of London from 1785 to 1985. Contains full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
  • The Times Literary Supplement, Centenary Archive: Searchable archive of the TLS from 1902 to 1990 (click on "subscribers" to access). There are some gap years and the archive does not contain the latest issues; for these, refer to the print issues in the Periodicals Reading Room, Floor 2, East Side or to the TLS online site.
  • The University of California Press Journals: Search or browse individual articles and journals through the University of California Press electronic journals database, Caliber.
  • The University of Chicago Press Journals Division: Provides full text online access to some of its seminal journals, such as Modern Philology, Critical Inquiry, The Journal of British Studies, International Journal of American Linguistics, Signs, and more.
  • WilsonSelect: Provides full-text access to selected journals indexed in Humanities Abstracts and well as other Wilson databases.

Titles from other sources are also included in the following list. The library's Electronic Journals page provides a comprehensive list of our electronic journal subscriptions. For subject access, consult the individual subject pages.

Please note: For titles with multiple listings, dates of coverage generally vary by source. Unless otherwise indicated, access to the following titles in restricted to University of Chicago students, faculty, and staff with current computing accounts.

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