The Penn Libraries has purchased the online version of Brill's Linguistic Bibliography = Bibliographie Linguistique, the major bibliographic database for scholarly research in linguistics worldwide.

LB Online, sponsored by the Permanent International Committee of Linguistics (CIPL), is esteemed for its comprehensive coverage of linguistics and related fields such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, and computer science, drawing from more than 2,800 journals and 8,500 publishers. LB Online makes a special effort to describe the scholarly literature on non-Indo-European and lesser-known Indo-European languages, especially endangered and extinct languages. LB Online is esteemed for its comprehensive literature coverage, drawing from more than 2,800 journals and 8,500 publishers.

LB Online provides bibliographic citations with subject indexing and PennText linking to more than 250,000 articles, books, book chapters, and other publications, spanning 1993 to the present. The release of LB Online corresponds with the publication of a print "catch-up" volume that covers indexing for 20050-2008. Brill expects to add 20,000 new records to LB Online each year. Plans are underway to digitize and offer the Linguistic Bibliography backfile, extending back to the 1940s.

For more information:
Lauris Olson, Social Sciences Bibliographer