Library Guides: Linguistics 111

Lynne McGivern, Instructor
Developed by Gina Haycock, Librarian
 

Reference Sources

• The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2006    R317.3 W927

• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language    R403 C957

• Dictionary of Languages    R403 D137

• Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture    R944.0803 E56

• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture    R945.0903 E56

• Facts about the World's Languages    R403 F142

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers    R808.027 G437

Online Reference Books:
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale provides access to 200 reference books. All the books are full-text and cover a wide variety of topics including art, science, literature and much more. All 200 titles can be searched simultaneously or individual titles may be selected. (Cost $20,000)
   

Circulating Books

The Library is purchasing a series of books published by Greenwood Press on the culture and customs of various countries. We currently have about 50 books in this series.
To find a book in this series, use the title search in the COS book catalog  For example, type in: Culture and customs of Mexico. Notice that the publisher for this entry is Greenwood Press that the copyright date is fairly current and that a subject heading reads:

Subject:    Mexico--Social life and customs--20th century

Online Books:

Periodical Databases

• Infotrac - Infotrac provides articles from more than 500 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, as well as references for The New York Times. The databases integrate core titles in every major academic concentration; area  and issue-specific journals; academic journals with application in the professions; and publications with national news coverage and commentary.  The time period it covers is current year to date + the previous 3 years. The optional backfile extends coverage as far back as 1980.  (Annual Cost $9,732)
   

• Academic Search Elite - This database indexes over 950 periodicals from 1984 to the present.  It will identify the periodical titles that the COS Visalia Library owns.  Of the 950 periodicals indexed approximately 480 have the complete text of articles back several years.  (Annual Cost $2,999)
  

 
• CountryWatch -  CountryWatch provides a political and economic survey of 191 countries.  It also has updates from United Press International, other news organizations, and the CountryWatch.com staff which cover the latest economic, corporate, and environmental information on a country by country basis as they occur.

• Student Research Center - This database provides access to the Columbia Encyclopedia as well as government reports, magazines, news transcripts, Primary Source Documents and more.

  Web Sites

• Yamada Language Center: Language Guides (Directory of language resources organized by geographic location. This site covers curriculum materials, organizations, cultural references and more.)
• Ethnologue (Search the database by country or name of language. Learn how many people speak the language, what languages are similar, and in what countries they are spoken.)
• Languages of the World sponsored by the National Virtual Translation Center.
• Intute: Arts & Humanities: Linguistics sponsored by a network of UK universities and partners featuring web sites for education and research selected by subject specialists.
• LingNet-The Global Language Network  (from the U.S. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)
• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks  maintained by a professor of East Asian languages at Ohio State University.
• Yahoo Specific Languages    provides links on each listed language from one link to over sixty depending on the language.
• Resources and Lesson Plans for World Languages
• iLoveLanguages lists individual languages and provides links on each language. The number of links for a specific language varies greatly.
• The Rosetta Project sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation and Stanford University Libraries
• The Language Museum briefly covers many languages and gives examples of the written language and the number of speakers.
• The Linguist List sponsored by Eastern Michigan University. It provides a peer reviewed links on a wide variety of languages.
• Language Materials Project sponsored by UCLA. Each Language Profile includes information about the historical, cultural, and social roots of the language, a map showing where the language is spoken, basic facts about the grammar, writing systems, and history of the language, and a wealth of other sociolinguistic information. Each page also includes contains links to the Language Materials Project citations for that language and a list of websites of interest to teachers and learners of the language.

  Avoiding Plagiarism

• COS Library Guide on Plagiarism:    http://www.cos.edu/library/plagiarism.htm   

• From Purdue University's OWL site:    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

• Paraphrase: Write it in your own words from OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/
   

• From Acadia University in Nova Scotia You Quote It You Note It:    http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/.

How to Cite

• MLA Style Guide from the UC Berkeley Library web site:  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/MLAstyle.pdf
• From Purdue University's OWL site: MLA Formatting and Style Guide: Works cited; Electronic Sources
   

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This page was created August 2006. This page was last updated: February 06, 2008
For questions and comments, please mail to: ginah@cos.edu