Guides and databases: Comparative Literature: Journals and E-journals

Types of periodical publications

Academic (or scholarly) journals are used to disseminate scholarly information that relates to a particular academic discipline. They are aimed at researchers and are often peer-reviewed, which means that articles are evaluated by experts in the field to ensure the information in them is accurate. An example of an academic journal is Comparative Literature.

Magazines are aimed at a more general audience than academic journals and can include opinions and news items too. An example of a magazine is the Times Literary Supplement.

Newspapers are published on a daily or weekly basis, the focus of these is on news items. An example of a newspaper is The Guardian.

Key journals in Comparative Literature

Key bibliographies in Comparative Literature

If you need to go beyond what UCL holds and conduct a more comprehensive search of what has been published, use these bibliographies:

Linguistics Abstracts Online
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Index of articles from linguistics journals. Includes abstracts.
MLA International Bibliography
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. International database on language, literature, linguistics and folklore.
Oxford Bibliographies
UCL has access to the African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Architecture Planning & Preservation, Art History, Atlantic History, Biblical Studies, British and Irish Literature, Childhood Studies, Chinese Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Communication, Criminology, Ecology, Education, Evolutionary Biology, Geography, International Law, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Literary & Critical Theory, Medieval Studies, Military History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Renaissance & Reformation, Sociology, Urban Studies and Victorian Literature modules. Accessibility statement for Oxford Bibliographies Online.

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Managing the journals you read: Browzine

UCL subscribes to Browzine, a resource that allows you to organise UCL's academic journals in a browsable format, displayed on virtual bookshelves. Browzine is a great tool to help stay up to date with new content, and bookmark articles that you want to read in the future.