Linguistic Bibliography Online: About Us

Linguistic Bibliography Online

Compiled and edited by Hella Olbertz and Sijmen Tol

The Linguistic Bibliography Online is an essential linguistic reference tool that is unique in its field. It provides nearly 270.000 bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics and is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field.

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Printed Edition

Scope

The Linguistic Bibliography Online covers all disciplines of theoretical linguistics, both general and language specific, from all geographical areas, including less-known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With annually over 20.000 records added, the Linguistic Bibliography remains the standard reference work for every scholar of linguistics.

The online edition contains all entries of the printed volumes as of 1993 and new records are added on a monthly basis. Annual volumes of the Linguistic Bibliography will continue to be published in print by Brill

Key Features

Cross-searchable linguistic database with nearly 270.000 records
Regularly updated: 10 updates per year
Around 20.000 new records per year
Contains over 95.000 person names, 2.800 journals and 8.500 publishers
All records are classified according to a sophisticated classification scheme (over 500 language classifications and over 100 subject classifications), refined with an extensive language and subject keyword index
Advance search and browsable classification
Save, print and email records
Export records in various formats to compile and refine your own bibliography
Searchable index of key terms
Records are full-text searchable
Titles are given in their original languages, with translations provided
User-friendly interface with advance search facilities
In accordance with industry standards (DOIs, OpenURLs)

Benefits

A high-quality linguistic reference work
Widely respected as an authoritative source in its field
Covers all relevant fields in linguistics, both general and language specific
Includes publications from interdisciplinary fields, such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computer science
Unique in its extensive coverage of non-Indo-European and lesser-known Indo-European
languages, with special attention paid to endangered and extinct languages Published on the authority of the Permanent International Committee of Linguistics (CIPL)
Bibliographical description according to the rules of the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) and of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)

Organization

All titles are given in their original language. As a general rule, English translations are provided when titles in lesser-known languages are listed in sections other than that of their own language or in the general section. Entries are grouped according to a hierarchical classification, which is applied to two main sections:

General linguistics and related disciplines, and
Individual languages of the world

At present, linguistic publications from over 2,000 periodicals are listed, including journals dedicated to interdisciplinary relations with other fields, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and computer science. The coverage of the Linguistic Bibliography is constrained in the following ways:

Only scientific publications are included, no popular pamphlets and pedagogical works (the pedagogical restriction being moderated in the case of lesser known languages)
Applied linguistic publications are listed only if they have theoretical implications