Introduction to Language (HUM STUD 160)
Reference Reources -- The library has some great sources dealing with Linguistics on the third floor (In the call number area P29). These encyclopedias and dictionaries can serve as great starting points for both finding a topic and learning more about your topic in a general sense (as opposed to the very specific topics addressed in journal articles).
How Do I Find Books?
To find books owned by the Cofrin Library, use the Cofrin Library Catalog.
To find books in libraries worldwide, use WORLDCAT.
How Do I Find Journal Articles etc.
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present.
MLA contains a very small portion of full text. The majority of items are citations. Many do not have abstracts so in some cases you only have the title to determine if the article will be useful.
JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s.
A service designed to allow you to quickly determine if the library has access to a book or article.
Public Internet Sources
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.