ResearchGuides: Linguistic Studies: Databases, Libraries, Corpora

Find a Database (Helka)

Corpora

American English Dialect Recordings The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects.
British National Corpus British National Corpus contains 100 million words of text texts from a wide range of genres (e.g. spoken, fiction, magazines, newspapers, and academic).
Corpus Inventory Corpora at Stanford University.
The Corpus of Contemporary American English The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balanced corpus of American English.
The Corpus of Historical American English The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) is the largest structured corpus of historical English.
Google Books Ngram Viewer Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts frequencies of comma-delimited search strings found in sources printed between 1500 and 2008 in Google's text corpora (various languages).
Helsinki Corpus of English Texts This is a structured multi-genre diachronic corpus, which includes periodically organized text samples from Old, Middle and Early Modern English.
Linguistic Data Consortium LDC’s Catalog contains resources based on field collections from humans and animals.
Speech Accent Archive The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.
Texts and Corpora List of corpora and searchable electronic texts compiled by The Linguist List.
TS Corpus: online corpus of Turkish TS Corpus is a free and independent project that aims building Turkish corpora, developing natural language processing tools and compiling linguistic datasets.
WebCorp Live WebCorp Live lets you access the Web as a corpus - a large collection of texts from which examples of real language use can be extracted.

Information seeking and training in the library

Core Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) A multi-disciplinary database. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 12 500 scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, and full text for over 8500 of these journals.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest) The definitive database on the nature and use of language, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts covers three fundamental areas: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language.
MLA - International bibliography (Ebsco) -> choose "MLA International Bibliography" under the Literature Databases MLA international bibliography consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1926 to the present. --- The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
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Note: MLA international bibliography is provided by Ebsco (Literature Databases) from 2019
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Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography An electronic database consisting of 7000 entries covering a wide range of subjects within the broader field of cognitive linguistics.
Translation Studies Bibliography An annotated bibliography of the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies. The following categories of publications are included: journal articles, monographs, (articles from) collective volumes, reviews, reference materials, dissertations and unpublished manuscripts.
Web of Science - Core Collection A very extensive database with multidisciplinary coverage (also humanities) and analyzing tools.
Scopus A comprehensive multidisciplinary database with good analyzing tools.

Reference Databases

Bibliography of Metaphor & Metonymy This bibliography offers a research tool for anyone interested in figurative language
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Chicago Manual of Style Online is venerable guide to style, usage, and grammar .

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Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Wiley) Comprehensive resource covering the highly diverse field of applied linguistics. Includes over 1 100 entries.
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Elsevier) ELL is an extensive reference book/dictionary on linguistics which includes c. 3,000 articles.

Ethnologue Ethnologue is a reference publication that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.
Handbook of Pragmatics The handbook offers an extensive overview of research traditions that belong or have contributed to pragmatics, of research methods, and of notation systems.
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science This series of "Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science" covers both general and applied linguistics and research on communicative action and interaction.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics

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More Databases and Resources

JSTOR
A fulltext database containing earlier volumes of mainline journals mostly in the fields of social sciences, arts and business.
Project Muse
Standard Collection contains full text journals in the humanities and social sciences. Nearly 250 journals from over 40 publishers.
DOAJ [Open Access]
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
JURN directory [Open Access]
JURN includes 3,000 links to selected arts and humanities ejournals. Journals listed are either free, or offer significant free content.
Language and Linguistics Compass
Unique in its range, Language and Linguistics Compass is an online-only journal publishing original, peer-reviewed surveys of current research from across the entire discipline.
Elektra
Elektra contains full-text articles of Finnish scientific journals.
Journal.fi
Journal.fi is a journal management and publishing service provided by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. The site features 40 Finnish scholarly journals, with more to come.
Kielikello
Articles in Finnish from the journal Kielikello (1968-). Current year's articles are updated at the beginning of each year.

Additional Resources

WorldCat WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
Library of Congress Online Catalog Contains 18 million catalog records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources in the Library of Congress collections
Internet Archive A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, multimedia and archived web pages.
Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg offers over 45,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
OpenDOAR OpenDOAR is the quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories and their policies.
European Library- Europeana European Library offers access to the combined resources of the 48 national libraries of Europe.
ZVDD Zvdd is the central access point to printed works from the 15th century up to today, digitized in Germany.
itranslate4 A common translation portal for online translators in Europe.
DART-Europe E-thesis Portal A discovery service for full text, open access research theses awarded by European Universities.
Linguistics Portal (Wikipedia)
Finnish General Upper Ontology - YSO/ALLSO General Finnish Upper Ontology YSO is a trilingual ontology consisting mainly of general concepts. YSO has been founded on the basis of concepts in Finnish cultural sphere.
Kielitieteen asiasanasto Linguistics thesaurus (Finnish, English, Estonian, German).
Helda Digital repository of the university of Helsinki.
E-thesis Doctoral dissertations and theses from the University of Helsinki.
MOT dictionaries MOT features high-quality tools for everyday communication: dictionaries, proofreading software and translation software for Windows, Internet and mobile platforms.
Varastokirjasto Finnish national repository library.

Library Databases

Helka.finna.fi
Helka is the joint database of the Helsinki University Library and several other libraries.Helka Libraries include Helsinki University Library, Institute for the Languages of Finland, Finnish Heritage Agency Library, Finnish Literature Society, Library of the Labour Movement, and Baltia-kirjasto. Find printed and digital books (also printed thesis), journals, articles and databases in Helka.
Helda
Digital Repository of the University of Helsinki.
National Library of Finland
The National Library of Finland collection is a unique research infrastructure, the foundation of which is the archive collection of Finnish publications. The international collections of the National Library of Finland link Finnish science and culture to its European and international collections.
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National Library has its own Library card and search service since it withdrew fom Helka in September 2019.
Finna.fi
The material of Finnish archives, libraries and museums with a single search.
Arto->Finna.fi.
NOTE! Arto Reference Database for articles has been included in the National Library's Finna.fi. service since the beginning of 2020.
Melinda
Melinda is the Union Catalogue of Finnish Libraries.
National Repository Library Vaari-Finna
The National Repository Library -Varastokirjasto-Vaari-Finna is a resource shared by all Finnish libraries and information service centres. The NRL is the most economic way of storing library material.