LibGuides: Linguistics: Finding Journal Articles and Conference Papers

Locate articles, conference papers, chapters, and other research materials

The goal of a literature search is to read and summarize the scholarship for a particular topic including substantive findings, theories, and methodologies. Literature searches involve scholarly secondary sources like journal articles, book chapters, and books. For more on types of literature reviews see UTL's Systematic Reviews guide.

Following are good starting points for linguistics researchers.

ACL Anthology
Open digital repository of research papers in computational linguistics from the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Provides free access to over 100,000 conference and workshop papers on computational linguistics and natural language processing.

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library
Research from the top publisher in computer science.
AILLA (The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America)
A digital archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America.
Anthropological Index Online
From the Royal Anthropological Institute an index to films and articles in over 40 languages.
AnthroSource
Unlimited users.
Updated regularly. Provides indexing and full text access to peer-reviewed journals published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the world's largest organization of anthropologists. Also includes indexing for archived issues of all the Association's journals, newsletters and bulletins.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC)
Applied linguistics, especially regarding communication studies.
Dissertations and Theses Global
Special indexing of doctoral dissertations, with much full text.
ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
Indexes the literature of education research, including research related to language learning.
Humanities Full Text
Indexing (with much full text) of research across the humanities, including good coverage of linguistics.
INSPEC
Primary index to the world's computer and control literature, so important for computational linguistics.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
1973-present. The primary index to the research literature of linguistics.
MLA International Bibliography
Important index of the literature of language, including linguistics.
PsycINFO (Ebsco)
Principal index to the research literature of psychology.
Includes abstracts from Psychological Abstracts back to 1927, Psychological Bulletin from 1921-1926, and all APA journals and the American Journal of Psychology back to their first issues. Corresponds in part to the print index Psychological Abstracts.
Texas ScholarWorks
UT Austin's institutional repository, including electronic dissertations and theses.
Web of Science
Provides wide-ranging interdisciplinary subject indexing of the journal and conference literature. Especially important for its cited-reference search feature.