COVID-19 Updates
Due to COVID-19, library services have been altered to facilitate social distancing. Librarian consultation services, workshops, and instruction remain remote until further notice. For up-to-date information about onsite services, checking out materials, and study spaces, please visit the Library's statement on COVID-19.
This guide contains important information about connecting to a variety of library resources. In addition to the content on the guide, let me stress:
- QuickSearch Books+ has faceted searching. If you are only looking for online content, after searching, please select "Online" under format. The Library has made significant updates to QuickSearch to facilitate users who need online-only materials.
- Library staff are still here to support you in your teaching, learning, and research. Please contact me using the information on my profile (below). You may email or schedule a Zoom appointment.
- The Yale University Library is transitioning from VPN-mediated access to a tool called "EZProxy" to help you access materials more seamlessly. Please visit this site for questions about the new authentication system, but for the majority of our online resources, you will now be sent to an authentication screen and you will not need to use VPN.
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New Online & Print Books
Welcome!
Welcome to the Linguistics guide! Here, you will find:
- Information about subscription resources in linguistics and how to use them.
- Where to find linguistics data, both in the Library's collections and elsewhere.
- Links to the guide on citing in LaTeX.
- Information on accessing ebooks and print books in the library.
Top Resources
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Articles+Articles+ is a single search box that covers about 80% of Yale's online resources. It's great for linguistics because you can search across multiple article/ebook platforms simultaneously for what we have in full text — or you can check the box that says "add results beyond your library's collection" to include abstracts that you could request via interlibrary loan. Once you search, use the faceting to narrow down to specific subject terms, content types, date ranges, and more.
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Linguistic Data ConsortiumThe LDC is an open consortium of universities, libraries, corporations, and government research labs that was formed to improve data for language tech research and development. The catalog contains 100s of holdings, with corpora that either stand on their own or were used for specific projects. It has a helpful search page.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)LLBA contains information about publications in Linguistics and related fields from 1973 – Present. The database 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.
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MLA International BibliographyThe MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles, and other information resources in modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. To make the best use of this resource, use its Thesaurus (look at the blue bar, upper right, once you click) or search using the Linguistics Topic field. You can also make use of the abstract indexing to do test searches and refine your results as you go.
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SIL International's EthnologueIn February 2019, Ethnologue released its 22nd edition of statistics of living languages of the world, including the number of speakers, places spoken, dialects, linguistic affiliations, and more.
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World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)WALS is a publication put out by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. You can browse languages by feature (e.g., languages with Feature 93A, "position of interrogative phrases in content questions") and connect to the resource where the language is described.
Science Research Support Librarian
Please email me or use the Schedule Appointment button. Appointments will happen using Zoom or other videoconferencing software. Zoom has a phone option for those who need to call in.
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