Databases
Most Important Resources
PubMed (1953 to present)
- Indexes and abstracts articles from more that 4,600 medical, health, and communication disorders journals
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- Indexes books, journal articles, dissertations, authors of books and articles, institutions, web resources, and grants in the fields of speech language pathology and audiology.
- Citations of books link to Jackson Library’s catalog to determine if the book is available in Jackson Library and the citations to journal articles link to Journal Finder to determine if Jackson Library provides electronic access to the fulltext of the article or owns the print journal.
- Books and articles not owned by the library can be ordered free of charge through interlibrary loan.
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LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1973 to present)
- Abstracts books, technical reports, articles in approximately 2,000 journals; indexes book reviews and dissertations. Covers language behavior, linguistics (including psycholinguistics, phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, sociolinguistics,) nonverbal communication, phonetics, and hearing and speech physiology and pathology (communication disorders).
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Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMI) (1915 to present)
- Provides indexing and abstracting of articles in several hundred journals in the fields of human communication, mass media, and communication disorders.
- Includes the full text of articles from over 200 journals, including several communication disorders journals.
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PsycINFO (1872 to present)
- Indexes over 1300 journals in psychology and related disciplines, including communication disorders. Also includes books and dissertations
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- Includes full text meta-analyses of clinical studies on a range of topics, including communication disorders and therapy, brain injury, etc.
- Articles are indexed in PubMed. To navigate from a PubMed citation to the article in Cochrane: Follow the Cochrane Library link then enter the title of your article in the search box in the top right corner.
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Related Resources
Web of Science (1955 to present)
- Although broader in coverage of subjects than other recommended databases above, this database still contains unique information for communication disorders.
- Covering over 8,100 journals in the sciences and humanities, it also provides the unique feature of indexing bibliographies of all articles indexed in order to identify who has cited a particular article or other work.
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EBSCO databases (1980 to present)
- From the menu that appears, click in the box beside each of these databases, as appropriate. A description of each database appears beneath the title: Academic Search Premier, CINAHL (nursing), ERIC (education), Health Sources (both titles), and Masterfile Premier.
- Then click on "Continue".
- All of these databases include information about various aspects of communication sciences and disorders.
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- Indexing, abstracting of 400 education journals and selected books. Includes some full text for approximately 185 education journals.
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- Guide to "unpublished" (may be available for free) instruments, tests, and measures
- Includes measure of speech and hearing disorders, and more
- ONE user limit
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Mental Measurements Yearbook (1985-present)
- Guide to "published" (commercially sold) standardized tests
- 4 concurrent user limit!
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Library Catalogs
- A catalog for the holdings of most academic and public libraries primarily in the US and some foreign countries as well. Includes books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, films, videos, and maps in print, microform, and electronic format. Does not index individual periodical articles.
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Communication Sciences & Disorders Resources
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Nancy Fogarty
Communication Sciences & Disorders Librarian
