LING 200 Harmon: Find Articles

Databases provide access to published materials in:

• magazines
• scholarly articles
• newspapers
• books
• and other valuable sources

To Access the databases go to the library homepage:

1. Click on the Articles tab.
2. Click on the database name you want to access from the Browse Databases From A-Z pull down menu. 
3. You can also search the databases by subject such as Literature.

From off campus you will need to authenticate with your library card number and pin (last for digits of your phone number).

Scholarly articles are written by experts in the field and, additionally, peer reviewed by a panel experts in the field.  They tend to include a lot of research and data, and the information in the article is backed up by a list of references. 

Example of a Journal with Scholarly Articles

Popular articles are often written by journalists for a general audience and are not reviewed by experts in the field.  Popular articles rarely include references.

Example of a Magazine with Popular Articles

• Directory of Open Access Journals in Linguistics
• Language Documentation and Conservation - An open access journal published by the University of Hawai'I Press.

•        prioritize your concepts to begin your search with the most important one
•        consider additional concepts to use, if necessary, to reduce or expand retrieval
•        if the database has a thesaurus, either online or print, check for suggested terms