Research Guides: A Guide to Global Languages and Linguistics: Start Here: Articles & Books

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is multi-disciplinary database that includes peer-reviewed journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and more.
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
A database of education publications covering a wide range of topics, including continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural education, and much more.
ERIC Education Literature (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive access to education-related literature, including citations to articles and research reports. Includes some fulltext.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
Definitive database on the nature and use of language. Covers three fundamental areas: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and research in speech, language, and hearing pathology.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A premier resource for Literature and Language, including:
- literary theory and criticism
- dramatic arts (film, television, video, theater, radio, opera)
- folklore
- linguistics
- rhetoric and composition
- college-level teaching of literature, language and writing
- history of printing and publishing
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s. The database contains millions of citations as well as full text for 1,000 journals.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Database of articles from peer-reviewed journals covering the humanities and social sciences. Most journals in this collection are published by non-commercial publishers such as university presses and scholarly societies.

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