online child language bibliography

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,
  The CHILDES/BIB bibliography is now online.  It has about 23,000
references which is about 10,000 more than the 1998 version of
CHILDES/BIB on the CD-ROM.  If you go to alaska.psy.cmu.edu, you will
find it.
A more precise address is:
http://alaska.psy.cmu.edu/ris/risweb.isa

The database is accessed using Reference Web Poster which allows all
sorts of Boolean searches etc.

I am hoping that this form of access will replace earlier hardcopy and
EndNote-based versions of CHILDES/BIB.

To test it out, try typing "modal" in the "Text to Search For:" field.
You should get about 50 matches.  You can view abstracts and details of
records by clicking on the left icon with the stack of sheets of paper.
You can download records to your own machine by marking them, clicking
export, saving in RIS format, and then saving to your disk.

You may also want to check to see if the entries for your own work are
correct.  If they need to be updated, please send the updated
references  with abstracts to kelley.sacco at andrew.cmu.edu

The bibliography still has a lot of duplicates and some errors which
Kelley will be fixing next week.

Good luck.

--Brian MacWhinney