From now until May 26^th we have a  trial of the Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) database.  If you study a topic related to language, linguistics, or speech this may be an important resource for you.  I could envision this being used by students and researchers in fields like Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communications, Modern Languages, and the Health Sciences.  Here’s the publisher’s description:

CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

You can access the database here. Please take a look at this tool and tell me what you think of it.  I really appreciate your feedback.

Click here to search PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)

It’s a trusted and familiar resource for finding scholarly articles, book chapters, books and dissertations in Psychology but could a different interface make it easier to use?  That’s exactly what I want to find out.

Now through November 21st, 2008 we have a trial of PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES on the EBSCOhost database platform.  It’s the same content that we have on the OvidSP platform, just a different interface.

Try it out, compare how you do the same search on both platforms, you know, kick the tires.  And then let me know what you think! Your feedback matters!