Catalogues and Databases

Catalogues

Library catalogue of the MPI of Geoanthropology
The library catalogue comprises currently about 20,000 mainly linguistic books and journals.

eResource Navigator
Web application to navigate through scientific information resources available to staff and guests of the Max Planck Society.

MPG e-Book Index
Catalogue of books electronically available for co-workers of the Max Planck Society.

Lin|gu|is|tik, the internet portal for linguistics
The Lin|gu|is|tik internet portal offers scientific information on every subject of linguistics.

Databases

BASE
Database for open access articles

eHRAF World Cultures
In the database eHRAF World Cultures more than 200 peoples or ethnic groups are indicated on the basis of different sources. The results are published in the form of ethnographic monographs, essays, and manuscripts.

Enhanced Electronic Grammars
Database for linguists

ISI Web of Knowledge
The Web of Knowledge offers users within the Max Planck Society a good opportunitiy for search, analysis and administration of bibliographic information. It is published by Thompson Reuters.

JSTOR
Digital archive of initially only older journal articles. Nowadays it also contains books and primary sources.

Language Description Heritage - Open access hard-to-get language documents
Language Description Heritage (LDH) provides open access to descriptive material about the world's languages with a focus on traditionally difficult to obtain works.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
North American Women's Letters and Diaries is the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. The database covers a period of 300 years.

Scopus
Multidisciplinary database belonging to Elsevier

WALS Online
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors.