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Resources for LINGUISTICS

Contents:

• University of Connecticut Library Collections and Services


• Library Databases and Indexes in Linguistics
• Current Journal Subscriptions in Linguistics. Includes links to tables of contents.
• Handbooks, Dictionaries, and Other Reference Sources in Linguistics. Chiefly print sources.
• HOMER (Library Catalog). Use the Homer catalog to check holdings for all University of Connecticut Libraries and to recall books that are charged to another patron.
• Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Service.< Use this form to request books and journal articles not owned by the Libraries.
• Request for Purchase Form.
Use this form to suggest titles to be added to the Libraries' collections.
• Current Awareness Services through Ingenta. This service helps keep faculty and graduate students continually informed about new publications in their fields of interest through citations sent to the individual's email account.
• Links to Internet Resources in Linguistics
• Electronic Journals and Preprint Archives in Linguistics
• Online Bibliographies and Research Tools in Linguistics
• Associations, Research Centers, and University Departments
• Library Liaison Program

Online Databases and Indexes

Available only to members of the UConn community unless otherwise noted. Consult Reference Sources in Linguistics for additional indexes relevant to linguistics.

• Dissertation Abstracts (UMI)
Scroll down and select Dissertation Abstracts from the menu.

The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions since 1861. Updated monthly.

• Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations in Linguistics. From the Linguist List (available to everyone).
• LLBA
Select Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, then select "Arts and Humanities" to reach LLBA.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for ca. 2,000 journals, 1973-present, with selective coverage of books, occasional papers, and dissertations. Covers theoretical linguistics, language acquisition, computational and mathematical linguistics, language therapy, and other language-related fields.

• Linguistics Working Papers Directory
  Abstracts and tables of contents for recent volumes of 30 working papers series.

• Modern Language Association International Bibliography
  
  Scroll down and select MLA from the menu. Indexes critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering literary and language scholarship from 1963 to theppresent, it provides access to over 3,000 journals and series published worldwide, monographs, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies.
• Philosopher's Index
Check the box for Philosopher's Index on the Database Selection menu under "Humanities", then click on "Search" at the bottom of the page.
• Proceedings First
  Scroll down and select Proceedings First from the menu. Includes over 19,000 citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition,wworkshop and meeting received at The British Library from October 1993 to the present. Updated monthly.
• PsycINFO
Select PsychINFO from the ERL menu under "Psychology, Sociology, and Linguistics", then click on "Search". PsycINFO 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. Journal coverage, spanning 1887 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates.
• Ingenta (formerly Uncover)
  A table of contents index and current awareness service for ca. 17,000 academic journals.
• Web of Science
  Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database of cited references (footnotes). It offers citation searching on authors and co-authors as well as keyword searching of abstracts and titles and other enhanced access to the following three databases:

  Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1994-present
  The Science Citation Index indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,000 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.

  Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1994-present
  The Social Sciences Citation Index indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

  Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1994-present
  Arts & Humanities Citation Index indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social journals.

  How to Search Web of Science

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Links to Internet Resources in Linguistics

• The Linguist List
• Linguistics Materials on the Web (University of Rochester)

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Electronic Journals and Preprint Archives

• Rutgers Optimality Archive
"A distribution point for research papers in Optimality Theory. Posting in ROA is open to all who wish to disseminate their work in, on, or about OT. "
• CogNet Library
  "CogNet is a growing collection of searchable electronic texts in the field of cognitive and brain sciences. The CogNet library contains works from both the MIT Press, as well as links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals, offering public access to online work."

• CogPrints Electronic Archive
  "This is an electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. "
• Full Text Electronic Journals (All Subjects)
  

Online Bibliographies and Research Tools in Linguistics

• Child Language Data Exchange System: CHILDES (Carnegie Mellon University)
"A database of child language and a set of computational tools that facilitate the sharing of transcript data, increase the reliability of transcriptions, and automate the process of data analysis.
• International Bibliography of Sign Language.
  Published by the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg.
• WordNet (Princeton University)
  
WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.

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Associations, Research Centers, and University Departments

• Center for the Study of Language and Information (Stanford University)
• GLOW: Generative Linguistics in the Old World
• Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics
• MIT Linguistics Department
• University of Connecticut Linguistics Department
• University of Massachusetts Linguistics Department
• Other University Departments
  

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