English Language History and Linguistics
Subject & Interdiscplinary Databases
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MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new windowAn index to the content of journals, books, proceedings, and other resources in the disciplines of languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
When you find a desired citation:
- Use the Journals tab from the Discover Libraries search box to see if University Library has access to the journal in your citation.
- If the citation is a chapter of a book, search the title of the book in the library catalog.
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Using the MLA International BibligraphyFAQs, tutorials, and hints. Also, a free online course to master your skills!
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JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowJSTOR contains the full text of articles published in approximately 430 journals from the fields of arts and sciences, and business. Its archive spans from the first volume of the journal to within the past three to five years of the journal.
- Use Advanced Search and limit to “Language and Literature” and/or “Linguistics” under “
"Journal Filter: Narrow by discipline and/or journal"
- See “Searching JSTOR” under “Help” or click the "Search Help" link in the Advanced Search tab to learn the operators to make your keyword searching more effective.
Search the Journals database if a recent or current issue is not full-text in JSTOR to see whether we have access to it in print or another database.
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Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowHumanities Full Text™ includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journals—of which 470 are peer-reviewed—dating as far back as 1984. The database provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.
- A bibliographic and partial full text database of articles that includes Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature.
- Subject Headings in this database include English Language/History, English Language/Verbs, English Language/Syntax, English Language/Tense, English Language/Semantics, English Language/Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Language and languages/Philosophy, Language and languages/Political aspects.
- Full text is for selected journals for selected years, so check the Journal tab on the Discover Library Resources search box to determine if the Libraries have access elsewhere if the article is not full text.
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Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new windowSocial Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
If your topic concerns sociolinguistics, this database may be helpful as well.