Articles
Discipline Specific
http://www.eric.ed.gov
1966- .
The ERIC database consists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations (tied to the ERIC document collection on microfiche) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals. It also includes full text of over 850 ERIC Digest records. ERIC documents are identified by an ED number. Use the ED number to locate the document on microfiche. Lauinger Library owns only part of the ERIC microfiche collection, from the FL clearinghouse (foreign language teaching). Check GEORGE, the library catalog, by title for other ERIC documents or to determine whether the library subscribes to the journals. Items not owned by Lauinger Library may be requested via the Consortium Loan Service (use WRLC Catalog to request) or InterLibrary Loan.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=llba-set-c&adv=1
1973- .
Citations with non-evaluative abstracts to international scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations on the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, speech, and communication. Provides enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International and bibliographic citations for book reviews. Particularly strong in applied and descriptive linguistics and in psycholinguistics.
MLA International Bibliography
http://0-collections.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=mla
1926- .
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, provides access to worldwide scholarly research in over 4,400 journals and series pertaining to literature (including drama), language, linguistics, folklore, film, radio, television, and theater. Provides citations to journal articles, books, book chapters from multi-author works, dissertations, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies. Does not include book reviews. MLA International Bibliography represents all national literatures.
General/Many Subjects
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section.
http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu:80/journals/
Mid-1990s- (dates vary by title).
Provides access to almost 250 journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and 40 other scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. You can search across all journals in the database, selected subsets of journal titles or just a single title. Full text is available for titles marked with a green arrow.
Background Information
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
A comprehensive ten-volume source on languages and linguistics, particularly strong in articles dealing with recently formed nation-states and the impact that politics has had on language. Includes bibliographies.
Location: LAU Ref Stacks P 29 .E48 2006
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
A comprehensive source of information on all branches of linguistics and interdisciplinary topics, this four-volume set includes bibliographies at the ends of articles and a glossary in the last volume. Provides detailed information on the world's language families.
Location: LAU Ref Stacks P 29 .I58 2003