Communication Disorders and Sciences
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media

• Reed Library Catalog:  Locate materials in Reed Library.
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text:  Contains full text articles and citations in the fields of allied health and nursing.
• Elsevier ScienceDirect: Access the full text of over 700 titles in the sciences, social sciences and mathematics.
• MedLine: The standard search tool from the National Library of Medicine for fields in health and medicine.
• PsycInfo: Citations and summaries of psychology topics.  Also includes the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, and speech pathology. Coverage from 1887 to present. 
• Academic Search Complete: Find information on almost any topic! Contains the full text of over 4,450 magazines, journals and newspapers and indexing for many, many more. Coverage dates back to 1975 for many publications. A great starting point for research!

Reference

• Gale Virtual Reference Library:  A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• Health Reference Center Academic: A source for both health care professionals and consumers concerning important current health information. 
• The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (e-book).  Print: Reference RC 423 .M56 2004.
• Terminology of communication disorders: speech-language-hearing: Reference RC423 .N52 2004, 5th edition.  A dictionary of communication disorders.

Other Tools

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)