Welcome to the online demo of Brill’s Linguistic Bibliography Online.
The Linguistic Bibliography Online is an essential linguistic reference tool that is unique in its field.
It provides over 330.000 bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics and 
is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field.
The Linguistic Bibliography Online covers all disciplines of theoretical linguistics, 
both general and language specific. 
It not only covers all geographical areas, but includes endangered and extinct languages, 
with particular attention to lesser known Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.
The Linguistic Bibliography Online is cross-searchable and has over 330.000 records.
It is updated 10 times per year, 
has 20.000 new records added per year and
contains a vast amount of person names, journals and publishers.
Let’s start with accessing the bibliography and start a search. There are two ways to do this.
The first way is to start exploring the Bibliography directly
on the main page of Brill’s bibliographies platform.
To start a search, enter a term in the search field.
Let’s search for “genitive”.
Then click on the “all titles” field and select “Linguistic Bibliography Online”.
Click on search.
This will give you all records related to “genitive”.
By default, 20 search results are displayed on one page. 
To expand this, scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on either “50” or “100”.
The Linguistic Bibliography Online offers many options to narrow down search results.
Additionally, there are many cross-references to other records that can be used to enrich your search.
We will tell you more about this in a moment.
But let’s first take a look at the second way to access the bibliography.
On the main page of the bibliographies platform, scroll down and click on “Linguistic Bibliography Online”.
You have now reached the main page of the Linguistic Bibliography Online.
Here you can find more information about the Bibliography and
learn about its history, its contributors and its editorial team.
Let’s start a search again. The search field can be found at the top of the viewing pane. 
Let’s search for “endangered language”.
As you can see, there are many records relating to “endangered language”. 
There are various options to narrow down your search result.
For instance, you might be interested in a specific type of publication, such as books.
To display only records of books, go to “filter by type” and click on “books”. 
In the same way, you can also filter by access, 
the language the publication is written in, subject keywords and language keywords. 
You can also narrow down your search using the hyperlinks in the record previews.
Let’s take a look at this functionality by using the second search result.
You can search specifically on the language keyword.
Likewise, you can filter on subject keywords or on author.
Let us now take a closer look at the actual records.
Let’s explore the first record in our current search result.
As you can see, each record contains detailed information about a publication,
such as its type, its language, its publisher and its source.
It is also possible to expand your search by clicking on the various hyperlinks in the record itself.
Perhaps a record has so tickled your interest that you would like to retrieve the publication itself.
The Linguistic Bibliography Online also offers the possibility of checking the actual location of a publication.
It might even be in your very own library. 
To do this, go to the document icon that is next to the record title.
If you click on the icon you will be redirected to your library’s holdings.
Please note that this service is only available when you are logged in into your own library,
on the spot or via a VPN system.
Last but not least, let’s explore the Advanced Search functionality.
Scroll to the “search” field and click on “Advanced Search”, right below the Search button.
This leads you to the advanced search field, which can be used for very specific searches.
Alternatively, it can also be used when you would like to find a particular record but do not know all the details.
For instance, you might be looking for a publication by a “Smith”, but you have forgotten the author’s first name.
Scrolling the search results, you remember: it was Quentin Smith.
To display all records featuring this author, click on the author’s name in the record preview.
This will lead you to all four records on publications by Quentin Smith.
If you are logged on with an institutional account, you can also create your personal account that allows you to
save, specify, share and export your search results in the Linguistic Bibliography Online.
With your personal account, the following functionalities are at your disposal:
you can save single records by ‘starring’ them.
Simply click on the star in front of the record and the record will be added to your star list.
you can also save your search result and create an e-mail alert for your specified search.
Your saved search queries will automatically be updated with each new update of the Linguistic Bibliography Online.
In this demo we have explored the Linguistic Bibliography Online and given you a sneak preview of
its many search functionalities and features. 
We hope you have enjoyed it.
Thank you for watching.
Free 30-day trials are available to libraries.
If you are interested in a trial, please have your librarian contact our sales department.
 
