Booleans are helpful when searching for information on a specific topic, such as ASL. The phrases "Deaf culture" and "American sign language" in quotation marks will return more specific results than the same phrases without quotation marks, for example.
Try this specialized linguistics database first.
Indexes journals, books, dissertations and other media covering all aspects of linguistics, speech, language and hearing pathology.
Free account can be created for personalization.
Date Coverage: 1973-date
Maximum Users: Unlimited
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Search Guide: https://www.proquest.com/help/academic/webframe.html?Help_Overview.html#Help_Overview.html
Below are more general databases. Many of these are also searched by Discover@MU - if you are not finding what you want in a specific database, try searching there.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than an abundance of journals and covers extensive academic disciplines and provides comprehensive content, including PDF back-files, videos, and searchable cited references.
Contains 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Date Coverage:Varies; primarily 1970s-present with some titles covering earlier dates
Maximum Users: Unlimited
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An art research database containing full-text art journals, books, periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published primarily in the U.S. and Europe. It covers art history, design, as well as photography, film and architecture.
Date Coverage: 1984-date
Maximum Users: 4 pooled users.
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Search Guide: https://support.ebsco.com/help/AFT
Offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts as well as selected ("priority") journals, many of which are full text.
Date Coverage: 1915-present
Maximum Users: Unlimited
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Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Please see Google Scholar & Findit@MU for instructions on adding Findit@MU links to your Google Scholar page.
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Maximum Users: Unlimited
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Provides access to scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. Contains a digital library of images, previously known as ARTStor, in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.
Free account can be created for personalization.
Date Coverage: Varies by title
Maximum Users: Unlimited
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Search Guide: https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004701828-Search-Help-Resources-Overview
Database with abstracts and citations of research literature and quality web sources, including journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, abstracts, and patent records. A multidisciplinary resource covering materials from the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Also indexes EMBASE and allows you to locate the most highly cited items and the articles that cite them.
Date Coverage: 1970-present; selected access back to 1823
Maximum Users: Unlimited
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Search Guide: http://help.scopus.com
Tutorial: https://supporthub.scopus.com
These are links to searches on subjects related to ASL and Deafness. You can use these as starting places to find books and other items within these subjects. You can also use the linked page to do your own subject searches.