LING 251: Languages of Oregon Course Guide : OSU Libraries

Finding & Locating Journal Articles

To find individual articles in journals, search by topic in one of these databases:

Academic Search Premier A general, multidisciplinary database. Includes full text articles for many journals.

CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts Abstracts of articles, books, proceedings.

MLA International Bibliography Index to journal articles and books in language and linguistics.

To locate print or electronic copies of articles that aren't full text in the database, find these buttons in the databases:

in CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior.

in MLA International Bibliography

Book Catalogs

OSU Library Catalog Books available at Valley Library
Summit (Orbis Cascades) Catalog Search catalogs of other libraries and have books not at OSU sent here in 3-4 days.
Google Books Books from academic library collections. Use the "Find this book in a library" link to see if OSU has a copy. Searches the full text of the book.
OCLC WorldCat International catalog of books. Indicates if a book is available at OSU. Especially helpful if you know the exact title of a book.

Course Librarian

Librarian: Loretta Rielly
Office Location: Valley Library, 4th floor
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 3:00 - 4:30 or by appointment
Contact: vlibloretta
Email: Click to reveal email

Valley Library at night

Jennifer Kubos, 2007

Course Instructor

Name: Juan Antonio Trujillo
Email: Click to reveal this email
Office Location: Kidder Hall 36
Instructor's Website

General Resources

The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Reference P29 .E48 1994 (2nd floor)

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics in Oxford Reference Online

Books on language and literature are located on the 4th floor of Valley Library, arranged by call number. Use this Language & Literature Classification Outline to find the call number areas.

Example of a call number and its book:

P40.5.L28 E63 1998 Endangered languages: language loss and community response

Useful websites

American FactFinder 1990 to present: population, income, housing, demographic, and economic data compiled byt the U.S. government.

Census Bureau Home Page Demographic, economic, and geographic data collected by the U.S. government

Ethnologue Excellent resource for researching world languages. Includes information on population of language speakers, language maps, lists of living and dead languages, and more.

Data for Local Communities Browse or search on topics related to communities in the norhtwest. Database developed by UO Libraries.