Databases for Languages and Linguistics
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| MLA International Bibliography |
MLA covers folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature. Provides over one million citations for items from more than 4,400 journals and series published worldwide. |
1926-present |
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| Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) |
Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations. |
1973-present |
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| Communication and Mass Media Complete |
CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 620 journals (over 500 in full text), and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, |
1915-present |
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| Mango Languages |
Mango Languages is a completely web-based language-learning system that focuses on conversation skills. |
Present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Anthropology Plus |
Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. |
19th century-present |
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| ComAbstracts |
ComAbstracts primarily indexes scholarly journals but also provides some indexing of scholarly books on communication. |
1937-present |
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| Education Research Complete |
The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,780 journals, as well as full text for more than 870 journals. |
Coverge varies |
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| ERIC |
Sources include journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. Each year approximately 30,000 new records are added. |
1966-present |
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| NCELA (National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition) |
Journal articles, reports, government studies, etc. |
1976-present |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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Even More
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| Project Muse |
Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences. |
1996-present |
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