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RECOMMENDED DATABASES

  • MLA Bibliography
    Description: The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of bibliographic records (some full text articles) pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
    Coverage: 1926 to the present.

  • Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)
    CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.

  • JSTOR
    Description: JSTOR is unique because the contains complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in PDF full text format. Many journals reach back to the 1800s.
    Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 2000.

  • Academic Search Premier from EbscoHost
    Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier from EbscoHostcontains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.

  • Project Muse
    Description: Project Muse provides the full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
    Coverage: 1995 -

  • Humanities Full Text
    Description: Provides indexing and abstracting to 400 English- language periodicals on disciplines including literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology.
    Coverage: 1984 -

  • ERIC
    Description : Contains citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center. 
    Coverage: 1967 -

  • Education Full Text
    Description : Provides indexing and abstracting of 400 international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based, and information technology.
    Coverage: 1983 -

  • PsycINFO
    Description: PsycINFO (R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
    Coverage: 1872 -

  • Sociological Abstracts
    Description: The Sociological Abstracts database 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. Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA) is also included as part of this database, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, neglect, aging, health, energy, environment, housing, education, women and development, disaster preparedness and risk assessment.
    Coverage: 1963 -

  • Oxford English Dictionary
    Description: Traces the usage of words from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
    Coverage: 1st, 2nd Editions and all supplements are included.
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RECOMMENDED WEBSITES

  • The Linguist List -- http://www.linguistlist.org/

    The LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. LINGUIST maintains a web-site with over 2000 pages and runs a mailing list with over 20,000 subscribers worldwide. LINGUIST also hosts searchable archives of over 100 other linguistic mailing lists and runs research projects which develop tools for the field, e.g., a peer-reviewed database of language and language-family information, and recommendations of best practice for digitizing endangered languages data.