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 Collections & Catalogs
Selected collections:
OSU Libraries 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.
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.
Google Books Books from academic library collections. Use the "Find this book in a library " link to see if OSU has a copy. If we don't you can request it from Summit or Interlibrary Loan.
Style Guides & Writing Resources
Writing resources at OSU
Style Guides
Research and Documentation Online
Citation makers
Online Citation Builder (Univ of N. Carolina Libraries)
Borrowing from other libraries
Books:
First see if a book is available through Summit. If it's not, request it through WorldCat.
Articles in journals:
Request through InterLibrary Loan. Articles are delivered electronically, so the turnaround time is often 24 hours or less but may take up to 5 working days.
Subject Librarian
- Loretta Rielly
- Office Hours:
3rd Floor, Valley Library By appointment - Contact Info:
541-737-2642
Course Instructor
- Juan Antonio Trujillo
- Office:
Kidder Hall 36 - Contact:
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.
Valley Library at night
Jennifer Kubos, 2007
Find Books: Catalogs
Summit (Orbis Cascades) Catalog
Academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. Request books not at OSU (or checked out) and have them sent here in 3-4 working days
Suggest books you'd like the library to purchase.
Find Books: Catalogs
Summit (Orbis Cascades) Catalog
Academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. Request books not at OSU (or checked out) and have them sent here in 3-4 working days
Suggest books you'd like the library to purchase.
Last Update: September 28, 2009 08:31
