The Modern Language Association (MLA)’s International Bibliography features some of the best retrospective coverage among databases in the social sciences and humanities, indexing a wide range of materials as far back as 1926. Over 1.8 million citations to journal articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on modern languages, literature, film and folklore are included. Translations of literary works are not indexed in MLA. 

For a Western database, MLA indexes a massive amount of material on Slavic and East European languages and literature. For example, MLA contains over 20,000 records assigned the subject heading “Ukrainian literature.” Users can further refine their results using Boolean operators and advanced search techniques. To learn more about searching databases, consult the Library’s guide on Improving Your Research Skills. As an example, a search for articles assigned both the subjects of Ukrainian literature and postmodernism narrows the results list to under fifty records.