American Sign Language: Home
This guide will cover research resources for American Sign Language (ASL) in reference books and e-books, books, journal articles, and Web resources
Introduction to Library Resources for American Sign Language (ASL)
This guide will cover OSU Library resources to support courses and research in American Sign Language (ASL) offered by OSU through the Department of Languages and Literatures. It includes resources on signing and interpreting, as well as research on ASL and other related sign language ares.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
International linguistics database (1973-current) covering phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Indexes journal articles, book reviews, books, chapters, dissertations, and working papers in language sciences.
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PsycINFO
American Psychological Association's comprehensive index of international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Covers journal articles, books, and dissertations with abstracts. The majority of indexed titles are peer-reviewed.
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MLA International BibliographyProduced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the bibliography directs researchers to more than 3 million citations from journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, scholarly websites, editions, and translations published from the late 19th century to the present.
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ERIC (EBSCO interface)The Educational Resources Information Center is an index that contains education-related literature and research.
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Project MUSEFull text access for about scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press (43 titles). Coverage generally ranges from 1993 to present.
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JSTORFull-text access for over 17 million journal articles, books, documents, and research reports in a variety of disciplines.
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ProQuestProQuest indexes over 4,700 journals, magazines, and newspapers many subject fields from approximately 1970 to the present, and includes full-text articles from over 3,300 journals.
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Academic Search PremierThis multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
