Research Subject Guides: American Sign Language (ASL) and Interpreting: Get Started

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This guide introduces resources to support your research topics in American Sign Language (ASL). Use the tabs at the top of the page to help you locate background information on your topic, articles, books, and more.

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New Resources

New York Times via NYTimes.com This link opens in a new window
Northeastern Library offers current and archival access to the New York Times. Please use this link for registration with a Northeastern email address. Once registered, users can log in directly at https://www.nytimes.com or use the New York Times app on a smartphone or device.
If you have an existing paid subscription to NYtimes.com, you will need to first cancel it by contacting customercare@nytimes.com or calling 800-591-9233.

Archives go back to 1980. For prior years, there may only be partial access. Please use Proquest New York Times (1851-2014) for archival searching and retrieval.

Key Databases

Language / Linguistics Databases

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers from the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
Includes phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Covers 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.

Interdisciplinary, Humanities, and Social Sciences Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database useful for researching a broad range of topics. Includes newspaper, magazine, and academic peer-reviewed articles.
Web of Science, All Databases This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database with citation information from high impact research journals.
Northeastern's subscription includes:Web of Science Core Collection (Arts and humanities, social sciences and Science Citation indexes)
Biosis Citation Index
Biosis Previews
Current Contents Connect
Data Citation Index
Derwent Innovations Index
KCI-Korean Journal Database
Medline
SciELO Citation Index
Social Sciences Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and professional citations and abstracts with full text links in politics and public policy, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, information sciences and education. Professional society databases included.
Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, Social Sciences Premium includes

Sociology Database
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
PAIS Index
Political Science Database
PolicyFile
Criminal Justice Database
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Library Science Database
Library & Information Science Abstracts
Education Database
ERIC
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics Database
Social Science Database
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles, book reviews, and more from the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Education Databases

ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Contains scholarly research articles, dissertations, professional literature, and grey literature (curriculum guides, conference proceedings, government publications, etc.) related to education.
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Contains scholarly research articles related to education, from early childhood to higher education.

Architecture, Art, and Media Databases

Art, Design, and Architecture Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and trade articles, books, and conference proceedings in the fields of visual and applied arts.
This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.
Communications & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles covering communication, mass media, linguistics, rhetoric, language, logic, and other closely related fields.

Health and Medical Databases

PsycINFO 1887-Current (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Includes articles, journals, books, and more for psychology and related disciplines. Published by the American Psychological Association.
ComDisDome This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles on speech language pathology, audiology, and communication.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
Includes citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Legal Databases

Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Search federal and state court cases, statutes and codes as well as European Union laws and regulations. Secondary sources include the American Law Reports and the American Jurisprudence encyclopedia, law reviews, journals, and newspapers.
- Tutorials: Find cases and articles in Westlaw, video or PDF
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
Full text legal documents including regulations and other government publications, reports, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) and UN Treaty series, and law reviews and journals.
Law360 This link opens in a new window
Available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
Up-to-date legal news focusing on business law.
Useful for research on high-stakes litigation and high-profile legislation, as well as lawsuits against major corporations. Also includes legal job listings.

Public Policy Databases

PolicyFile This link opens in a new window
U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, PolicyFile is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies.
Policy Commons This link opens in a new window
Reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of more than 21,000 IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, and research centers.

Center for Atypical Language Interpreting at Northeastern

Center for Atypical Language Interpreting (CALI)
Northeastern University’s American Sign Language and Interpreting Education Program was awarded a U.S. Department of Education Rehabilitation Services Administration grant to build on the successes of the Center for Atypical Language Interpreting (CALI). The project addresses the growing demand for interpreters with specialized skills to serve Deaf and DeafBlind persons with atypical language.
CALI Annotated Bibliography
Browse continually updated material related to language use by signers and interpreting for signers who use wide variations of sign language.

Sign Languages Profiles

Ethnologue : Languages of the World This link opens in a new window
Review profiles with basic information for a variety of language families, including sign languages. Profiles include information on estimated user population, locations spoken, dialects, typology, and more.

Research Methods

Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Familiarize yourself with various research methods through short entries, books, dictionary definitions, case studies, and more.

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Subjects: American Sign Language (ASL), Architecture, Arts, Media, Music, and Design, Language, Linguistics, and Interpreting

American Sign Language (ASL) and Interpreting: Get Started