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Databases
JSTOR
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Access to archival issues of journals with coverage usually ending three to five years before present. Back issues of over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social sciences with links to current issues available in Project Muse.
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Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Access to archival issues of journals with coverage usually ending three to five years before present. Back issues of over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social sciences with links to current issues available in Project Muse.
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MLA International Bibliography
Coverage: 1926 to present (Index)
Produced by the Modern Language Association. Provides access to scholarly research in over 7,000 journals and series as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies etc in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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Coverage: 1926 to present (Index)
Produced by the Modern Language Association. Provides access to scholarly research in over 7,000 journals and series as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies etc in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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Project Muse
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Includes over 300 journals from over 70 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Includes over 300 journals from over 70 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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PsycINFO
Coverage: 1840 to present
Indexes and abstracts international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Coverage: 1840 to present
Indexes and abstracts international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Dictionaries
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (18th ed.)
Contains entries on the meaning and origin of a vast range of words and expressions, from everyday English phrases to Latin tags.
Contains entries on the meaning and origin of a vast range of words and expressions, from everyday English phrases to Latin tags.
Collins English Dictionary
The 21st Century Edition of the Collins English Dictionary provides comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date coverage of today's English.
The 21st Century Edition of the Collins English Dictionary provides comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date coverage of today's English.
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
An authoritative and up-to-date source of information about the English language. With contributions from more than 130 experts worldwide, the language is viewed from an international perspective, covering Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to South Asian English.
An authoritative and up-to-date source of information about the English language. With contributions from more than 130 experts worldwide, the language is viewed from an international perspective, covering Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to South Asian English.
Dictionary of Languages
The essential guide to the languages of the world, comprehensively detailing more than 400 languages in a clear A-Z style.
The essential guide to the languages of the world, comprehensively detailing more than 400 languages in a clear A-Z style.
Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
This revised and updated fifth edition incorporates new words or senses that have developed in linguistics during the past 5 years, based on recommendations from a team of experts.
This revised and updated fifth edition incorporates new words or senses that have developed in linguistics during the past 5 years, based on recommendations from a team of experts.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The meaning, history and pronunciation of over 500,000 words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world. Includes the usage of words, etymological analysis, and variant spellings. Shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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The meaning, history and pronunciation of over 500,000 words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world. Includes the usage of words, etymological analysis, and variant spellings. Shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Encyclopedias
Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics
Provides uniquely comprehensive and authoritative information on all aspects of sociolinguistics.
Provides uniquely comprehensive and authoritative information on all aspects of sociolinguistics.
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
A comprehensive and authoritative source of information about any particular aspect of linguistics or its applications.
A comprehensive and authoritative source of information about any particular aspect of linguistics or its applications.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
An encyclopedia covering all the fields in the social and behavioural sciences. Comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
An encyclopedia covering all the fields in the social and behavioural sciences. Comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
Guide to the work of figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language. Includes over eighty entries on individual thinkers in the Western tradition, ranging from antiquity to the present day, chosen because of their impact on the description or theory of language.
Guide to the work of figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language. Includes over eighty entries on individual thinkers in the Western tradition, ranging from antiquity to the present day, chosen because of their impact on the description or theory of language.
Journals
Internet TESL Journal
Provides articles, research papers, lessons plans, and classroom handouts and links for ESL/EFL teachers.
Provides articles, research papers, lessons plans, and classroom handouts and links for ESL/EFL teachers.
New Zealand Databases
New Zealand National Union Catalogue (via Te Puna)
Coverage: Index
Contains bibliographic records for books and journals published worldwide, and indicates which New Zealand libraries may have copies.
Coverage: Index
Contains bibliographic records for books and journals published worldwide, and indicates which New Zealand libraries may have copies.
Websites
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
A reference work cataloguing all of the world’s known living languages; it also includes lists of dictionaries, grammars, thesauri and endangered languages. The Research section has articles reflecting current linguistic research and more specialised applications.
A reference work cataloguing all of the world’s known living languages; it also includes lists of dictionaries, grammars, thesauri and endangered languages. The Research section has articles reflecting current linguistic research and more specialised applications.
Lexicon of Linguistics
Searchable database of linguistic terminology updated with new terms in the areas of Generative Grammar (Minimalism) and Phonetics. Includes bibliography. Provided by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics at the Utrecht University.
Searchable database of linguistic terminology updated with new terms in the areas of Generative Grammar (Minimalism) and Phonetics. Includes bibliography. Provided by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics at the Utrecht University.
Linguistics Glossary
Provides terms used in linguistics, language studies, language teaching and SLA research and is based on V.J. Cook (1997), Inside Language and Arnold & V.J. Cook (2004) The English Writing System.
Provides terms used in linguistics, language studies, language teaching and SLA research and is based on V.J. Cook (1997), Inside Language and Arnold & V.J. Cook (2004) The English Writing System.
Working Papers in Applied Linguistics
An annual volume of articles by Postgraduate Diploma in Second Language Teaching students and MA Applied Linguistics students in the Department of General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato; also included are articles by students in the undergraduate papers Introduction to Applied Linguistics and An Introduction to Skills-Based Second Language Teaching and Learning.
An annual volume of articles by Postgraduate Diploma in Second Language Teaching students and MA Applied Linguistics students in the Department of General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato; also included are articles by students in the undergraduate papers Introduction to Applied Linguistics and An Introduction to Skills-Based Second Language Teaching and Learning.
World Atlas of Language Structures Online (WALS Online)
Data and the texts on the structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages from the World Atlas of Language Structures, published in 2005 by Oxford University Press.
Data and the texts on the structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages from the World Atlas of Language Structures, published in 2005 by Oxford University Press.
