LibGuides: Linguistics and English Language: Finding Subject Databases

Subject databases

Subject databases for Linguistics and English Language

Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
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Full-text journal articles in the visual and applied arts.
Subject coverage includes: literature, art, philosophy, linguistics, architecture, history, social sciences, humanities, music, design, photography, etc.
Lexicons of Early Modern English This link opens in a new window
A collection of monolingual, bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth and Restoration periods.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive index to research in linguistics and language development.
MLA International Bibliography with full text This link opens in a new window
From the Modern Language Association (MLA) and EBSCO, this resource combines an extensive collection of full-text journals with the definitive index for the study and teaching of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric, writing studies, folklore, film, theater, and other dramatic arts.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
Covers 31 key areas of the field, including Language Teaching and Learning, Bilingual Education, Language Policy and Planning, Assessment andEvaluation, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse and Conversation Analysis, the Neurobiology of Language, Literacy, and Technology and Language.
International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction
Explores a full range of topics: Culture-salient issues, Discourse and politics, Discourse facets or processes, Identity focused, Institutional discourse, Issues about language(s), LSI concepts, Mediated discourse forms, Morally-marked discourse, Speech acts and events, and Theoretical approaches

Interdisciplinary databases

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary full text database that includes peer-reviewed academic journals as well as general magazines and news sources.
The database contains full text for more than 10,000 journals including more than 9,000 peer-reviewed titles.
CNKI (China Academic Journal Database - English language interface) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive, full-text database of Chinese Journals. Collections available: Medicine & Public Health; Literature, History, & Philosophy; Politics, Military Affairs, & Law; Education, & Social Sciences; Economic, & Management.
CNKI (China Academic Journal Database - Simplified Chinese interface) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive, full-text database of Chinese Journals. Collections available: Medicine & Public Health; Literature, History, & Philosophy; Politics, Military Affairs, & Law; Education, & Social Sciences; Economic, & Management.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
An exhaustive guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of many thousands of words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
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Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Reference Online consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Reliable source of high quality content in the arts, humanities and social sciences from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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Created by the American Psychological Association (APA), this database contains millions of abstracts, citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, dating back to the 1600s.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences and arts & humanities.
Web of Science (All Subjects) This link opens in a new window
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Indexes thousands of high quality, peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length abstracts and links to cited references and citing articles.