Subject and Research Guides: Linguistics: Databases & Journals

Databases for Linguistics

When searching for journal literature on your topic, databases are often a better alternative than searching in MultiSearch. These may be subject-specific or cover many different topic areas.

Advantages for using databases include:

better focus of articles within discipline;
many databases have useful features.

Our recommended databases for Linguistic related topics are listed here:

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA This link opens in a new window
Covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantic. Also historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database. It covers a large number of peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical and social science fields, from an extensive range of international publishers.
Google Scholar @ MQ This link opens in a new window
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window
This online service provides searchable fulltext access to the Taylor & Francis Group journals, reference works and databases. Resources are available in most subjects. Coverage varies according to source.

ERIC (Proquest)
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides citations and abstracts access to educational-related literature.

Browzine

Browzine
Magazine interface for all of our journals. Look under the area 'social sciences' and then 'gender studies', there is also a collection here under LGBT studies.
Linguistics Journals via Browzine