If you are searching Google Scholar off-campus, set your preferences in Google Scholar Settings to link to the Saint Mary's online collections.
For information on journal quality and what to look out for when searching for journal articles on the web (e.g., in Google Scholar), see the Library's Open Access guide page on Predatory Publishers.
You can also look up a journal in the following source as one way to check for quality and credibility:
Identifies journals which use deceptive practices and threaten the quality of scholarly publication.
The following databases are suggested starting points for research in Linguistics. To access a database off-campus, use your SMU email and password to login. View a full list of the library's databases on the A-Z Databases webpage.
Multi-disciplinary database of full-text articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Key index to international scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage from the early 20th century to the present. Links to full-text in JSTOR and Project MUSE.
Key index to scholarship in psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Other useful databases:
Contains over 60,000 illustrated biographies of influential individuals from British history.
Full-text access to over 800 scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Multi-disciplinary database with more than 1,100 journals, over 200 gold open access journals, and 400 society partners.
Full-text access to over 2000 journals covering the physical sciences, engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Over 1,700 journals in the humanities and social sciences. Over 700 journals in science and technology.
Contains three linked databases indexing sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities scholarly articles.