How To's and FAQs
What is in the MLA International Bibliography?
The MLA International Bibliography is a library database comprised of more than 3 million indexed citations to scholarly publications (e.g., books, essays, journal articles, and websites) that relate to human communication in any form. Coverage includes literature from all over the world—Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation, comparative linguistics, and history and theory of linguistics. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, video, theater), rhetoric and writing studies, teaching of language and literature, and the history of printing and publishing.
Most of the materials indexed date from the 1920s or later, but some materials date well back into the nineteenth century.
How can I get online access to the bibliography and Full-Text materials?
Online access to the MLA Bibliography is available in libraries through institutional subscription through EBSCO. Two different versions of the bibliography are available to subscribers on EBSCOhost; the DIU library provides access to the MLA International Bibliography with Full-Text.
- The MLA International Bibliography is a citation-only database. Although the subscription does not include full text of publications, full text materials available in other EBSCO databases to which your library subscribes display directly in the product. The bibliography enables additional access to full text through links to materials in JSTOR and MUSE, links to open-access publications, and DOIs. It also supports link resolvers and interlibrary loan requests.
- The MLA International Bibliography with Full-Text includes full text of more than 1,000 journals and series, in addition to the same links to full text available in the MLA International Bibliography.
Does MLA Full-Text index only English-language material?
No. More than seventy other languages are represented in the index, including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. The material indexed comes from all over the globe; coverage is truly international.
