SCOPE: This is a selective guide to important print and electronic reference sources in the field of Linguistics
                           available in AU Library. For more help, please ask a reference librarian.
 

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TO FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES	ELECTRONIC TEXTS
BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES	ENCYCLOPEDIAS & OTHER RESOURCES
HISTORY OF LANGUAGE	STYLE MANUALS AND WRITERS' HANDBOOKS
DICTIONARIES	SELECTED INTERNET LINKS

                   by Title, Author, Word (topic) or Library of Congress Subject.  Some of the applicable Library of Congress
                   Subject terms to try are Linguistics, Semiotics, Semantics, Language Acquisition, English Language Dialects--

                   United States, or English language -- Study and teaching. 
 

MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography  or print version Ref.Z7006.  M64 1969
    An international bibliography of literary, linguistic, and folklore scholarship. Indexes articles, essays, books and book chapters,
    conference papers, and dissertations. Book reviews are not included.  (Campus use only)
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
    Covers all aspects of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. More than 500,000 records can be searched
    in the annually updated database. (Campus use only)
Contemporary Women's Issues
    Provides full-text access to  information on women from over 190 countries. Journals, newsletters, and research reports from
    non-profit groups, government and international agencies are easily accessed through CWI .Information on women in over 190
    countries is compiled in a single collection.  Many authors and titles that are not offered elsewhere are indexed in CWI.  The
    database also allows access to the bibliography for each article, even when the full-text article is not available.
Education Abstracts
   May be used to find articles on language acquisition, the teaching of writing or foreign languages, and multicultural
   teaching. Covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary
   education issues. English language books related to education published after 1994 are also indexed. Coverage begins in June
   1983, and the database is updated monthly.
 ERIC
    ERIC is the U.S. government's free education database that is especially useful in finding articles on language acquisition, the
    teaching of writing or foreign languages, and multicultural teaching.  Articles marked ED are ERIC documents: most of those are
    on microfiche in our copy center.  Those articles labeled EJ are journal articles and many of them may be found either in the print
    version of the journals or in AU databases.  Also check Digests from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and
    Communication for searchable database of bibliographies and digests.
Humanities Abstracts
     Indexes more than 300 key English-language periodicals in the humanities
Periodical Abstracts
    Offers comprehensive abstracting and indexing to articles from more than 1,800 popular  magazines,
    business periodicals, and academic publications in a wide variety of subject areas. It also indexes the Wall Street Journal and
    the New York Times. Full-text articles accompany over 70% of the citations.
OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center(EJC)
    Provides articles from more than 56,000 issues, representing over 1850 journal titles. Every article is full-text. Browse the journal
    titles listed under under Arts and Humanities or Social Sciences.  Just a few selected journal titles that may be useful in the
    study of linguistics are: Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Communication Disorders, Journal of
    Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Yale Journal of Criticism, Journal of Logic, Language and
    Information, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and the Journal of Fluency Disorders.
Social Sciences Citation Index
   This is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and
    behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials
    publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative
    abstracts of journal articles. Try "sociolinguistics" as a keyword.
 
 

*Once you have identified an article you may check to see if the journal is available at AU Library by either entering the journal title in the EaglePAC online catalog, checking the alphabetized list in the yellow serials binders placed near the computers.

* If a journal is not available in AU's collection, nor in the research databases, you may request the article through interlibrary loan.  Please ask at the reference desk for an interlibrary loan request form.

Britannica Online
    Provides access to text and illustrations from Encyclopedia Britannica’s 44-million-word database.
    More than 65,000 subjects are addressed, and information is updated quarterly. An encyclopedia is a good source for gathering
    preliminary information about a person and Britannica offers a list of other resources for further investigation. (Campus use only)
Contemporary Authors; a Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction,
    Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields (Electronic version is campus use
    only)   Print version Ref. PN453 .C61 vols. 1-177
   Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the
    world. Many linguists are included: you may search by name (Kristeva, Chomsky, Foucault, etc.) or simply enter the term
    Language/ Linguistics in the Subject/ Genre field for a list of 341 linguists.

Black English; Its History and Usage in the United States   Circ PE3102.N4 D5
Black Street Speech : Its History, Structure, and Survival   Circ  PE3102.N42 B38 1983
The Cambridge History of the English Language    Circ : PE1072 .C36 1992
The Story of English  Circ : PE1075 .M58 1986
The English Language : Its Origin & History    Circ : PE1075 .B26
HEL:History of the English Language
    From Virginia Tech, a web site that provides information on Language Pre History, Old English Period, Middle English Period,
    Early Modern English, American & Present-Day Englishes and an archived HEL: Linguistic Listserv.

Dictionary of Afro-American Slang Ref : PE3727.N4 M3
A Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk : Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and
    Verbal Flourishes for Artful Users of the English Language   Ref  PE1449 .R34 1981
Dictionary of Language and Linguistics Ref : P29 .H34
Glossary of Linguistic Terminology Ref : P29 .P39
The OhioLINK Thesaurus of the English Language (TEL)
    TEL is a general-purpose thesaurus intended to help writers improve the quality and accuracy of their writing. By
    presenting a broad choice of synonyms, authors can find, compare, and select the words to express their ideas
    precisely. TEL is derived from the from the following thesauri: Enhanced Roget's US Electronic Thesaurus,  Oxford
    Thesaurus and from Roget's II: The New Thesaurus.
Oxford English Dictionary
    The OED is a historical dictionary of the English Language from the Middle Ages to the present. It lists all English
    words over twice as many as any other dictionary) and defines their meanings at specific times in history, showing
    how meanings have changed over time. One of the Oxford English Dictionary's important features is the quotation
    that illustrates the use of the word and indicates the date it was first used in print.
Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang   Ref : PE2846 .H57 1994
A Web of On-Line Dictionaries
    This is a fun site from Bucknell University.  It provides dictionaries in 224 languages, including many Native
    American languages; multilingual topical dictionaries (ex. Dictionary of Bird Names, European Medical Dictionary);
    translation programs; lexicography and lexical Data Bases and other language links.

Atlases
    The Linguistic Atlas of England   Ref  PE1705 .L56

General
    The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language     Circ  P29 .C64 1987
    Concise Compendium of the World's Languages  Circ  P371 .C37 1995

Specific dialects
    Ribbin', Jivin', and Playin' the Dozens: the Unrecognized Dilemma of Inner-city Schools
     Circ    LC5141 .F67
    The Native American Almanac :a Portrait of Native America Today   Ref  E77 .H59 1993

The Columbia Guide to Online Style
    Includes tips for documenting electronic resources in both APA and MLA.
Links to Writing Labs
    From the University of Maine
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers    Ref. and Ready Ref. LB2369 .G53 1997
  There is also a copy in Circ. and one at the Reserve Desk that may be used in the library.
Modern Library Association (MLA)
    "Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web."
Links to Writing Labs
    From the University of Maine

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
    Every article is full-text. Browse the journal titles listed under under Arts and Humanities or Social Sciences.  Just a few
    selected journal titles that may be useful in the study of linguistics are: Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics,
    Journal of Communication Disorders, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Yale Journal of
    Criticism, Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and the Journal of
    Fluency Disorders.
PubSCIENCE
    Provides users the capability to search across a large compendium of peer reviewed journal literature with a focus on the
    physical sciences and other disciplines of concern to the Department of Energy (DOE).  A search for 'Linguistics "resulted in 96
    hits.
Scholarly Electronic Journals Distributed via the World Wide Web
    A directory from the University of Houston that provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to
   English language article files without requiring user registration or fees.
The Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics
    Published by the School of Modern Languages University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Bubl Link's Linguistics Resources
    Links from  the Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University.
ETHNOLOGUE : Languages of the World
    A comprehensive reference source based on the thirteenth edition of the book of the same name. Provides language maps,
    overviews of language situations by country, bibliographic references, language descriptions, a language name index including
    alternate names and dialect names, a language family index covering language family trees and links.
The International Clearing House for Endangered Languages
Linguistics: Links from the University of Rochester
Linguistics, Natural Language, and Computational Linguistics Meta-index
     "A guide to the best linguistic resources on the web."
Linguistics Resources
    From the Human Language Page, an award winning site with links to other resources.  Note this is a personal page on a
    commercial domain.
Sign Language Sites on the World Wide Web
    Created by a group of linguists at Leiden University in the Netherlands, studying the phonology and phonetics of
    sign languages. Provides a description of a phonological model of signs, information about SignPhon database, list
    of publications and manuscripts, links to other sign language WWW sites, links to other linguistics WWW sites.
A Web of Linguistic Fun
    From Bucknell University, "this page is your entree to a wide range of information about linguistics." Each page deals with a
    different fundamental subdiscipline of linguistics: historical linguistics, phonology (the study of sounds), syntax (the study of
    sentence structure), semantics (the study of meaning).
A Web of Other Linguistic Sites
    Also from Bucknell University
A Word with You
    An archived daily on-line column about words and phrases.

Last updated: May 13, 2005
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