Research Guides: English Studies: Folklore Studies

Selected Internet Sources

American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is a searchable online vocabulary that can be used to improve access to information about folklore, ethnomusicology, ethnology, and related fields.
Open Folklore developed by the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries–aims to be a open resource for digital publications, educational materials, and scholarship in folklore. Includes: AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus.
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 (Library of Congress) This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1940.

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Reference Sources

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JSTOR [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Index to journals, books, dictionaries, dissertations, and conference papers on literature, languages, folklore and linguistics. Includes critical writings on literature and human languages, including both naturallanguages and invented languages, e.g., Esperanto. Citations in a non-Roman alphabet are translated into the Roman alphabet.
eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window A collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject facilitating the study of human culture, society, and behavior.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window Provides articles abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to present.&nbsp Articles are abstracted from more than 2,400 journals published in approximately 40 languages.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window Ethnographic Video Online: is a comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture and behavior. The collection is made up of hundreds of hours of classic and contemporary documentaries previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field and select feature films. Wherever possible, videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing, full-text materials.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online, including: a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003, access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key American Anthropological Association (AAA) publications including American Anthropologist, and current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications.
National Geographic Virtual Library This link opens in a new window The National Geographic Virtual Library brings together the complete archive of the National Geographic magazine — every page of every issue — from 1888 to1994 along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
Social Sciences Abstracts This link opens in a new window Indexes approximately 350 periodicals in anthropology, area studies, community, health and medical care, economics, ethnic studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law and criminology, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy science and corrections, political science, psychology and psychiatry social work and public welfare, sociology, and urban studies.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present. Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK.

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Journals

OSUL Special Collections

American folklore lithographs / by William Gropper
At Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
Little lit : folklore & fairy tale funnies / edited by Art Spiegelman & Françoise Mouly
At Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum