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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1973-present)
Find articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, and dissertations in linguistics. What Is It? Index to journal articles, books, etc, from all areas of linguistics, including linguistic anthropology, philology, sociolinguistics, and developmental linguistics

MLA International Bibliography (1926-Present)
Core resource for literary and linguistic research; find critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. What Is It? Index to scholarly literature for language, literature, linguistics and related areas. Published by the Modern Language Association. MLA indexes primarily journal articles and book chapters, selected dissertations and web sites are also indexed.

PsycInfo (1887-Present)
Search both American Psychological Association literature and internationally published literature in the field of psychology. What Is It? Database that indexes journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in the field of psychology.

Sociological Abstracts (1952-Present)
Research topics in sociology and related fields (anthropology, linguistics, political science, economy). Search for conference proceedings, dissertations and book reviews. What Is It? Index to articles, conference proceedings and book reviews published in sociology journals and related fields such as anthropology, economics, education, linguistics, medicine, philosophy, political science, and social psychology.

Web of Science (1900-Present)
Search for articles on a wide variety of subjects. Get a sense of how much has been written on your topic. Gather background information. Good place to start most research projects. Indexes more scholarly journals than the Expanded Academic Index.
Search Tutorial What Is It? Multi-disciplinary index to academic and general interest journals. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present ).

Additional Resources

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-Present) What Is It? One of three databases included in Web of Science. It indexes scholarly journal articles in the arts and humanities.

Why Use It? Find authors that cited a particular paper. Track research by moving backward and forward in time through a specified discipline. Search Tutorial

Social Sciences Abstracts (1983-Present ) What Is It? Multidisciplinary abstracts to articles in English language social sciences journals.

Why Use It? Search for scholarly articles in any of the social sciences fields. Find what an author has published recently. See how a topic is covered in various disciplines.

Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-Present) What Is It? One of three databases included in Web of Science. Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. Disciplines covered include: Anthropology, History, Law, Linguistics, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, Women's Studies

Why Use It? Find who cited a particular paper. Track progress of research by moving backward and forward in time through a specified discipline. Search Tutorial