MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.

This full-text database covers all literatures worldwide and includes a comprehensive array of source types, including scholarly journal articles, chapters in books, biographical articles, topic and work overviews, reviews, and some primary source material. It includes articles directly from the sources as well as tens of thousands of items that have been reprinted in Gale literary sets, such as Twentieth Century Literary Criticism or ,i>Short Story Criticism.