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Databases for Linguistics
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Primary Database
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of monographs, recent books, technical reports, occasional papers, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for LLBA.
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ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)
Part of the Literature Online database, ABELL contains over 500,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
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Provides indexing to the scholarly literature in anthropology, including general anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology and cultural anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Now incorporated in Anthropology Plus.
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Provides citations to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Includes the Anthropological Literature database, prepared by Tozzer Library, Harvard University, as well as Anthropological Index, from The Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography (Museum of Mankind), incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library. Updated quarterly, the database indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present.
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The acronym ARTFL stands for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language. The main ARTFL database is a corpus consisting of nearly 2000 texts in French, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
One of the components of the Institute for Scientific Information’s Citation Databases (Web of Science). Use this database to search for published scholarly literature by author, title, or subject or by cited author.
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Citations and abstracts to articles appearing in approximately 9,000 periodicals dealing with life science. Some coverage of cognitive science, cognition, audiology, etc.
CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Includes indexing and abstracts for many of the standard hearing and speech journals.
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Contains all surviving Old English material, excluding some variant texts. The texts have been divided into meaningful units, usually editorial sentences. The Corpus comprises over 3000 different texts.
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A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Full text is provided for article published 1995 and later. Subject coverage includes: preschool, elementary, secondary, and higher education; special and vocational education; comparative and multicultural education; adult and continuing education; computer technology; teacher education, evaluation, and methods; and school administration and parent-teacher relations.
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Interdisciplinary engineering database. Covers journals, technical reports, and conference proceedings, with abstracts. Useful for artificial intelligence.
ERIC [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]
or ERIC [EBSCOHost] References with summaries from education journals and documents (i.e., books, pamphlets, conference reports, symposia, studies, tests, etc.).
HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
Some coverage of indigenous languages of Central and South America.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Citations to articles in scholarly journals and specialized magazines. Titles relating to linguistics include American Speech, Etc., International Journal of American Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics, and Romance Philology.
ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Some coverage of the Romance and Germanic languages.
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Evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
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Backfiles of scholarly journals. Titles of relevance to linguists in the Language and Literature Collection include: African Language and Cultures Supplement, American Speech, Hispania, Hispanic Review, Italica, Japanese Language and Literature, Language, Modern Language Journal, and Modern Philology.
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A variety of full-text resources, from newspapers, journals and magazines, and other sources.
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Abstracts and citations to journal articles covering all aspects of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary science and the preclinical sciences.
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Contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.
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Offers easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes published scholarly journals and books in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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Online access to the second edition of the The Oxford English Dictionary, with draft entries for the upcoming third edition. Also available in printed volumes (Ref PE1625 .O87 1989) and on CD-ROM (Microforms, Morris Library (CD-ROM 170)).
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Indexes thousands of journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Areas of coverage include linguistics and philology.
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Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 400 journals and related interdisciplinary fields. It does not include citations to privately published works, pamphlets, or book reviews. It is a major source of information in the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. It is also a rich source of material on the philosophy of various disciplines, such as education, history, law, religion, and science.
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Includes the full text of articles in Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Oceanic Linguistics, and Texas Studies on Literatures and Languages.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author.
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Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. It provides access to books, book chapters, journal articles, dissertations, and technical reports in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.
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Includes the full text of articles in Cognitive Science, Computers and Composition, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Communication Disorders, Journal of Fluency Disorders, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language & Communication, Language Sciences, Lingua, Linguistics and Education, Poetics, Speech Communication, System, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
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References and abstracts to journal articles in sociology and related disciplines, such as sociolinguistics.
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WorldCat, the OCLC union catalog, contains cataloging records to more than 30 million items held at libraries around the world. In WorldCat you can submit interlibrary loan requests for material not held by the University of Delaware Library.
General Databases
This page is maintained by David L. Langenberg, Collection Development Department.
Last modified: 10/21/09
