MLA International Bibliography covers a broad range of humanities subjects, including world languages and literatures, linguistics, dramatic arts, film, folklore, rhetoric and writing studies, teaching of language, and history of publishing. Its expansive scope also makes it an excellent resource for research in history, philosophy, communications, and cross-disciplinary subjects such as gender studies and area studies.

Coverage is international, encompassing scholarly publications in more than 70 languages. Numerous full-text links provide easy access to resources in the library as well as open access publications.

Currently, users can cross-search these collections with Gale Literature:

• Gale Literature Criticism
  Large, extensive compilations of literary commentary
• Gale Literature Resource Center
  Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world
• LitFinder
  Collection of literary works, including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays
• Subcollections of eBook titles
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
  Scholarly essays that provide context to understand the careers and writings of more than 12,000 authors from all time periods and all parts of the world
• Something About the Author
  Biographies of classic, contemporary, and emerging authors and illustrators of children's and young adult literature
• Contemporary Authors
  Biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors