American Sign Language (ASL)

Best Database Choices for American Sign Language

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Journal Databases

Expanded Academic Index ASAP   

Find academic articles in all aspects of the arts, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology. Many full text articles with images. Includes book reviews. InfoTrac OneFile includes the same data and also business articles and articles from popular magazines.

Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique (BL Online)   1993-present

BL Online lists articles, books and reviews in all aspects of linguistics and on all languages. It includes the data from the print volumes of the Bibliographie Linguistique from 1993-2001 and new data from then to the present.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts   1973-present

Search for journal articles on all aspects of the nature and use of language. Includes book reviews. Updated monthly.

MLA Bibliography 1963 to the present

An index to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations in language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.

PsycINFO   1887-present

Covers journal articles in more than 30 languages and books in English about psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education.

Sociological Abstracts   1963-present

Sociology and related fields. All languages. 2600 scholarly journals. Includes book, book chapter, and conference paper abstracts and book reviews. Updated quarterly.