Communication Disorders Research Guide

This online guide is developed specifically for those doing research in Communication Disorders. It provides a recommended list of resources, which encompasses print materials, electronic databases, and selected Internet resources.

It lists only resources that deal primarily with communication disorders and related material.

Because this subject can involve other disciplines such as education, psychology, biology and neurology, you may need to consult resources in those fields also.

For more extensive research help, contact Paris Webb at 696-3511.

Books

Books in this subject area can be located at Drinko Library, Morrow Stacks or Marshall University's Health Science Library or Graduate College Library which are located off-campus at Cabell Huntington Hospital or South Charleston campus respectively. Use the online catalog MILES to find books by subject headings or keywords at all locations of the Marshall University Libraries. The following Library of Congress Subject Headings can be used with the Basic Search by Subject Heading to locate books:

For additional, useful subject headings for your topic, consult the following listings, available in the Reference Collection or online:

Library of Congress Subject Headings (Reference Desk)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (Online)

You may also want to browse the collection in the following call number areas:

BF 712-724
RC 321-429

For books at other libraries, search other Library catalogs over the Web.

Books Marshall does not own may be ordered via our consortium E-Z Borrow or, if not available there, from other libraries using our Information Delivery Services (IDS).

[ Top of Page ]

Journal & Magazine Articles

The online databases and print indices listed below will provide references to articles, (or in some cases full-text articles), in a wide range of periodicals--from news magazines and newspapers to scholarly and professional journals. If you have questions about choosing or using a database or index, please consult a librarian.

Full-Text Databases

Academic Search Premier
This comprehensive database is a good first step to begin your research for articles. ASP database features full text for nearly 4,650 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. ASP database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more. ASP database coverage is from 1975 to present and it is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
ERIC EBSCOhost | CSA | U.S. Dept. of Education
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center database, contains indexing and abstracts from hundreds of education and education-related journals and from thousands of educational research and technical reports. Selected full text articles are available for thousands of ERIC digest records. Coverage is 1966-present.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and ProQuest Nursing Journals

Dissertations & Theses database provides indexing and summaries of over 2.3 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Selected dissertations added after 1996 are available as free full-text downloads in PDF format. Coverage is 1861-present.

Nursing Journals is a full-text subset of CINAHL (nursing and allied health). Coverage varies.
Sociological Abstracts
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers, and citations to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage is 1963-present.
Wiley InterScience
Provides full text articles from scientific, medical, and professional journals from Wiley. Wiley InterScience now includes Blackwell Synergy journal content providing access to more than 3 million articles across 1400 journals. Coverage varies.

Indexes & Bibliographic Databases

These databases and print indices primarily provide citation information, (i.e. author, article title, periodical name, volume & issue, date), for articles, essays, book chapters, dissertations, and other materials. Abstracts are usually included. While these particular databases are not full-text, you may find many of the sources are available in the MU Libraries. You can find out if Marshall owns these by searching MU Journals for journal titles or MILES, the libraries online catalog, for book titles. If an item is not owned by MU Libraries, you can request it from another library by using our Information Delivery Services (IDS).

CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
The authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,857 journals and entries for healthcare books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, professional standards, software and audiovisual materials. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982.
CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Coverage is 1973-current. RESEARCH TIP: Also, try going to the CSA basic search. Enter communication disorders in the search box and change the Subject Area to Social Sciences.
MEDLINE PubMed Medline | EBSCO Host Medline | CSA Medline
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE includes citations and abstracts from medical journals and provides authoritative information on all aspects of biomedicine and allied health fields plus biological and physical sciences and humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Although each provider above updates their site at different times, the content is the same. EBSCO offers some linked full-text.
PsychARTICLES
Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. Coverage is 1985-present.
PsychINFO
Contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Some linked full-text articles are available. Coverage from 1800's to present.
Visit our Complete List of Databases for a full list of what MU Libraries has available. While there, click on "show details" for more detailed descriptions of the databases. Also, try clicking on the "Databases by Subject" button to go directly to a list of databases related to your area of research.

Selected Periodicals

Print & Online @ MU

The list below is only a partial list of Communication Disorders periodicals available in print or online at MU Libraries.

For more information, visit our Journals Search page. There, you can browse our titles A-Z; browse by subject when you select a subject category; or find a specific periodical by doing a title or issn search. The Journals Search database will give you detailed information for all our journals, magazines, and newspapers. It will indicate if the periodical is available online, in print, or in microfilm, and will state the years of coverage for each format. Whenever possible Journals Search provides a direct link to journal content; however, some vendors do not provide links to individual titles in their databases. In these rare cases, you will need to search for the title at their database site.

Open Access Online

Aphasiology Archive -- University Library System, University of Pittsburg

[ Top of Page ]

Print Reference Sources

The Reference Collection is located on the first floor of Drinko Library. It contains print resources that provide useful background information. Items in MILES catalog marked as "Drinko reference" are on the shelves immediately behind the Reference Desk. (The following list is in call number order.) Note: Items designated in MILES as "HSL reference" location are available off-campus at the Health Science Library.

Tabor's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary R121 .T18 2001
Desk Reference of Assessment Instruments in Speech and Language RC423 .H338 1996
Reference Manual for Communicative Sciences and Disorders RC423 .K46 1994
The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders RC423 .M56 2004
Terminology of Communication Disorders RC423 .N52 2004

[ Top of Page ]

Statistical Sources

Incidence and Prevalence of Communication Disorders and Hearing Loss in Children - (webpage) report produced by the Association of Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Incidence and Prevalence of Speech, Voice, and Language Disorders in Adults in the United States - (webpage) report produced by the Association of Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) -- (website) was established within the U.S. Department of Education to provide relevant research, evaluation and statistics to our nation's education system.
Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Use in the United States - (webpage) report produced by the Association of Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Statistics on Voice Speech and Language - (webpage) report produced by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, one of the government's National Institutes of Health.

[ Top of Page ]

Internet Resources

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Gale Virtual Reference -- GALE Virtual Reference Library provides you with a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Full-text. Coverage varies.
InteliHealth: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary - online medical term dictionary, sponsored by InteliHealth, an Aetna company.
MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia - links to online medical dictionaries and lists of online medical dictionaries, produced by the National Library of Medicine.
MedTerms.com - online medical term dictionary produced by MedicineNet, Inc., an online, healthcare media publishing company. MedicineNet is 100% Doctor produced.
AMA Style Guide - online help with citing resources based on the American Medical Association Manual of Style, 9th ed., 1998.

Web Resources

Marshall University Department of Communication Disorders - departmental website for faculty, students, and those interested in pursuing a degree in this discipline.
American Academy of Audiology -- the world's largest professional organization of, by, and for audiologists.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association -- is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 130,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.
Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists -- see the "Resources" tab for publications, online learning, and fact sheets.
Hardin MD's Speech Pathology/Speech Therapy -- is part of the medical information website produced by the University of Iowa. Here you will find links to resources on or related to the subject.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders -- established in 1988, NIDCD is one of the Institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke -- NINDS is one of the Institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Here you will find information on disorders, current news, completed clinical trials, and professional resources.
Speech and Communication Disorders -- an authoritative website produced by MedlinePlus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Virtual Tour of the Ear -- provides educational information and quick access to resources about the ear and hearing.

[ Top of Page ]

Electronic/Digital Texts

Developmental Theory and Language Disorders (2005) -- fourth volume in the series Trends in Language Acquisition Research.
Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education (2003) -- instructs individuals in the health professions how to apply statistical methods to the biomedical sciences.

[ Top of Page ]

Prepared by P. Webb, Digital Resources & Systems Support Librarian, Assistant Professor & Subject Specialist for Communications Disorders

Page last modified 03/18/09 by P. Webb