LING 100: Introduction to Linguistics
Research & Instruction Librarians
Getting Started
Overviews
Online Encyclopedia Collections
Scholarship
Scholarly, Interdisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Interdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls. - Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowAccess to research in areas related to cultural studies, communication and mass media studies, rhetoric, speech, and digital, electronic and new media.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowLarge collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
Databases with Linguistics-Specific Content:
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides literature including journal articles and book chapters on linguistics and related language science fields. Covers all aspects of linguistics, from phonetics to semantics, and the various fields of linguistics (geographical, comparative, etc.).
- MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) This link opens in a new windowThe primary database for literary and film scholarship.
WorldCat Search
Organize Your Sources: Citation Management Tools
RefWorks is a tool for organizing and sharing your research materials and citing them in a wide range of citation styles.
Refworks: Annotate pdfs, cloud based.
Zotero is an easy to use application for organizing your research materials, sharing them with collaborators, and citing them in a wide range of citation styles. It's free. Works best with Firefox.
Zotero: cloud and web based
Both: organize sources, sharing folders, importing citations from databases, capturing citations from websites, create citations.
Citation Style Manuals
MLA Handbook by ISBN: 9781603292627Publication Date: 2016-04-01Shorter and redesigned for easy use, the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook guides writers through the principles behind evaluating sources for their research. It then shows them how to cite sources in their writing and create useful entries for the works-cited list. More than just a new edition, this is a new MLA style. (Note: 7th edition available as an ebook)
Publication Manual 7th Edition of the American Psychological Association by ISBN: 9781433832154Publication Date: 2019-10-01Ebook Available. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the official source for APA Style.
