• Gould Library at Carleton College Linguistics Research Guide: https://gouldguides.carleton.edu/ling

  • This is a good example of a smaller university library providing a unique research guide that strays from the traditional path. It was created by Iris Jastram from a previously mentioned source, the Pegasus Librarian. This guide includes standard reference works and databases for articles and dissertations. Jastram also included unique sections specifically about psycholinguistics and historical linguistics. She also includes information about APA style for citations and tips for organizing research.​

• New York University Linguistics Research Guide: https://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=276717&p=1845678

  • This clean and easy-to-navigate guide includes great lists of handbooks,indexes, reference materials, and corpora (language resources that contain structured sets of texts). This guide does not list many databases; the few that are listed are index databases. One excellent addition is the specialized materials sections. There are sources on many different sub-disciplines such as morphology, neurolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, and more. These are on separate pages under a drop-down tab.

• University of Maryland Linguistics Research Guide: http://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=326405&p=2192583

  • This seems like a standard LibGuide for linguistics. It includes handbooks and other reference materials that feature pictures of the covers and ISBN numbers. There are pages for research tips, ways to find books, links to many databases to find articles, and APA style guides. It also includes a list of professional linguistics organizations.​

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These three guides included many things that the others didn't: professional organization lists, materials for specialized sub-disciplines, and more. Ideally, a guide would have all of the features, not just reference materials and databases. One source I noticed they all had was Ethnologue: Languages of the World, clearly one of the top linguistics and language reference sources. The Carleton College guide had the least amount of information, but it is a much smaller library. Unfortunately, while I liked the focus on psycholinguistics and historical linguistics, it was the least effective simply because of the lack in sources. The University of Maryland guide was more about how to research, while the New York University guide had a greater number of actual sources to use. Ultimately, the New York University guide was more effective because it felt like it was more tailored to the discipline as opposed to following a standard format used for all guides.