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Libraries, catalogs, and interlibrary loan

Library of Congress

BU Library Catalog Search

For materials not available at Mugar

The resources in linguistics (especially with respect to journals) at the Boston University libraries are limited. Interlibrary loan is available through Mugar Library for materials not owned by the university. You can now place interlibrary loan requests over the Internet.

Boston Library Consortium (BLC)

Boston University is a member of the BLC. Most BLC member libraries are open to on-site use by patrons of other member libraries. Member libraries include Boston College, Boston Public Library, Brandeis University, Brown University, Marine Biological Laboratory - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MIT, Massachusetts State Library, Northeastern University, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts / Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Wellesley College, and Williams College. If your work requires extensive use of materials not available at Boston University, you may qualify for a Boston Library Consortium (BLC) card which will enable you to borrow materials from another BLC library. Further information is available at Mugar Library. The Boston Library Consortium Web Gateway will allow you to connect to all BLC library homepages and catalogs. In addition, the gateway provides access to the BLC Union List of Serials, which shows which libraries hold journal titles and specific issues of journals; and to Ingenta, a journal service that allows free on-line access to journals and their tables of contents. (See also http://www.mlin.lib.ma.us/ for more information about local libraries.)

Member libraries' hours and locations

Consortium user guide

It is also possible to borrow materials from the Boston Library Consortium through BU. You can search through multiple catalogs simultaneously, and books owned by Consortium libraries can be obtained quickly. Click here for Virtual Catalog information and policies.

Electronic indexes, databases (access restricted to BU domains)

Other databases

Online dictionaries and corpora

Lexicon of linguistic terms

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

List of non-LDC corpora from Stanford University

Electronic access to journals

Dissertations

Linguist List: Dissertation Abstracts

ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts

MIT Dissertations

Digital library of MIT theses: You can read these on-line one page at a time.

Click here for a list of MIT linguistics dissertations: http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/l/linguistics/www/works/dissertations.html
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