Research Links
ONLINE JOURNALS AND DATABASES FOR RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
(If you click on a broken link, just copy and paste the address that is provided on the address bar and press intro)
LITERATURE
- Spanish-Language Literature http://www.library.georgetown.edu/guides/spanishlit/spanishlit.htm (Georgetown University Library’s Guide to Research, excellent)
- Glossary of Literary Theory: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/headerindex.html
- Gale Literary Databases(US and International Literature Database): http://galenet.gale.com/a/acp/db/gdpbm/
- Enlaces de literatura hispana: http://home.swipnet.se/ruisoto/links/litind.html
- Literature in Latin America http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/literature/
- European Literature –Electronic Texts http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
- Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/g-contents.html
- Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature Review: http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/index.html (see the topic by countries).
- Political Discourse: http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/discourseov.html (theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism)
- Cyberspace, Hypertext and Critical Theory: http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/cpace/ (directory of articles in relation to topics such as politics, gender issues, cyber art, etc.)
- NUS Literary Studies: http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/literature/relatedlinks.html (excellent page of literary resources)
BOTH LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
- Journal Storage (PSU subscription) www.jstor.org (to download articles from all areas of knowledge, including Literature and Linguistics, in pdf format)
- Ingenta Gateway (PSU subscription) http://www.gateway.ingenta.com/ (it allows you to download the articles of the journals the library is subscribed to)
- Association of Departments of Foreign Languages Bulletin http://www.adfl.org/bulletin/ (topics of language, literature, culture and education; our department has an ID and password; downloadable .htm/ .doc format articles)
- Science Direct: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
- Reading in a Foreign Language http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/ (online linguistics and literacy journal)
- MLA Bibliography www.libraries.psu.edu → Articles and More → select E-Resource List (A - Z) → scroll down to MLA Bibliography / MLA Directory of Periodicals
- Search for E-Journal by Title www.libraries.psu.edu → Articles and More → E-journals at PSU (write key word, such as “linguistics” or “literature”)
- Cambridge Journals on line http://journals.cambridge.org (offers downloadable pdf documents)
- Blackwell Synergy: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showHome (online journals)
- Proquest: http://www.il.proquest.com/proquest/ (click on “connect to Proquest)
- International Bibliography of Periodical Literature http://www.libraries.psu.edu/artsHumanities/german/IBZOnline.html (Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Directory of e-journals in Literature and Language http://libweb.apu.ac.uk/subjects/languages/sub_langs.php (after checking out the titles, go to http://www.gateway.ingenta.com/ and browse publications by title).
- Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ (Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Kluwer Online Gateway http://journals.kluweronline.com/ (offers downloadable pdf documents from online journals)
- Questia: The World’s Largest Online Library of Books and Journals http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp (requires subscription, but it offers abstracts and previews of articles, and therefore, it is a way of finding bibliography on a topic).
- Resources for locating dissertations http://www.libraries.psu.edu/artsHumanities/dissertations/
LINGUISTICS
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Resources for SLA Research: http://language.la.psu.edu/main.php?id=61 (Center for Language Acquisition, excellent)
- Papers on Semantics: http://semanticsarchive.net/cgi-bin/browse.pl?sortbyauthor
- Directory of Linguistics sites and reference materials: http://www.library.georgetown.edu/guides/linguistics/ (Georgetown University Library’s Guide to Research, excellent)
- Journal of Second Language Writing: http://www.jslw.org/
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts www.libraries.psu.edu → Articles and More → select E-Resource List (A - Z) → scroll down to Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- CiteSeer: http://citeseer.org/ (a scientific literature digital library, see citation indexes, citation contexts, resources for corpus linguistics and technological pedagogy, etc.)
- Resources for Discourse Studies: http://www.discourse-in-society.org/Resources.html
- Linguistic Computing Resources: http://www.sil.org/linguistics/computing.html (information, software, tools and more)
- Articles on Sociocultural Theory: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_cult.html
LINGUISTIC CORPORA
- DAVIES/NEH Corpus del español: http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/ (it allows searches in different media and throughout different historical periods).
- Corpus de referencia del español actual (CREA): http://corpus.rae.es/creanet.html (it allows searches by countries and in different media).
- Corpus diacrónico del español (CORDE): http://corpus.rae.es/cordenet.html
- Base de datos sintácticos del español actual: http://www.bds.usc.es/busquedas.html (free, but it requires subscription)
- Assessing Development of Advanced Proficiency through Learner Corpora: http://calper.la.psu.edu/corpus.php?page=websites (a CALPER Project)
- Corpora in other languages other than in Spanish: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html
- Corpus Linguistics: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/corpus4/4fra1.htm (explains the use of corpora in language studies).
ONLINE LIBRARIES
- Netlibrary (PSU subscription) http://netlibrary.com/ (you will be able to check out e-books or just to browse or to have them temporally)
- OCLC (digital library): http://www.oclc.org/
- EBSCO Information Services: http://www.epnet.com/
- OVID: http://www.ovid.com/site/index.jsp
- IMPORTANT WEBSITES FOR STUDIES, EXPERIMENTS AND GRANTS
- Office for Research Protections http://www.research.psu.edu/orp/index.html (most likely, you’ll need to go to “Human Subjects” if you are carrying out a linguistics study/ experiment; you will also find “Online Training Modules”, and “Consent Form”).
- RGSO (Graduate Student Dissertation Support Grants) http://rgso.la.psu.edu/gradstud/graddiss.html (here you will be able to ask for funds for your dissertation or to ask for teaching release time).
If you have other Linguistics/ Literature research links of interest, please send them with a brief description to this page’s webmaster, Carmen Yáñez mxy159@psu.edu . Any contributions or ideas to improve this website will be highly appreciated.
