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Articles

Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
Contains indexing and abstracts for over over 2900 current nursing and health journals back to 1981+.  Also provides access to Pre-CINAHL, a companion database featuring rotating bibliographic information about new journal articles as they are being indexed. 2-4 simultaneous users.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO).
Full text articles from over 200 journals covering all areas of communication and media and indexing and abstracting for many more. 

Communications and Mass Media Collection

This collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, and linguistics.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Scientific and scholarly journals which have been peer-reviewed and are free.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
On the Web through FirstSearch.
        On the Web through the official ERIC site, free to the public.
ERIC is a comprehensive database containing abstracts of journal articles, reports, curriculum guides, conference proceedings, etc. It covers all areas of education at all age and grade levels.   ERIC Documents 1993+ are now freely available online.  Documents before 1993 are in the library on microfiche.  The library's microfiche subscription ended with ED455358.
The ERIC database, as well as lesson plans, web sites and other useful information, is available on the Web through the Educator's Reference Desk, also free to the public.  (ERIC documents are not available at this site.)  Coverage:  Click here to show journal list.

Exceptional Child Education ResourcesCall Number: General Collection LC 3950 E942
1969-2003. Indexes books, periodical articles, government reports, dissertations on children who are gifted or are physically, mentally or learning disabled.

Google Scholar
Scholarly journal articles on all subjects, some are full text; many have links to cited references.

MedLine, 1950+
Abstracted articles from 19,000 medical journals. Also free to the public from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed.  GoPubMed searches the same databases as MedLine and PubMed but adds a neat index for concept searching.

PsycINFO
Citations and abstracts of articles from journals in Psychology and other social science disciplines including Anthropology, Education, Medicine, Nursing, and Psychiatry, from mid-19th century to present.  Also includes citations to books and book chapters from 1987 to present.

PubMed Central
Full text of life science research articles.

Data/Statistics

Reference Manual of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. Call Number: Reference RC 423 K46 1994

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Electronic version of a very famous medical dictionary and encyclopedia.

Encyclopedia of special education.Call Number: Reference LC4007 E53 2007

Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness.Call Number: Reference HV 2365 G35 1987

Hegde's PocketGuide to Treatment in Speech-Language Pathology. Call Number: Reference RC 423 H38296 2001

MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders.Call Number: Reference RC 423 M56 2004

Terminology of Communication Disorders.Call Number: Reference RC 423 N52 2004

Specialized Sources

Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

Master Theses at Truman

Style & Citation Guides

Citation and Writing Guides
Guides for how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style; the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style; and the Chicago/Turabian citation style.  This page also has information on how to use tools that automatically format bibliographic information for you like: EndNote, Zotero, and EasyBib.com.

Web Sites

Communication Disorders Web Search Engine

ASHA:  American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
American Academy of Audiology
Guide to Otolaryngology in the Internet
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources---Maintained by the University of Iowa's Hardin Health Science Library.  Some sample entries are Neurology, Otolaryngology, and Speech Pathology.
Mayo Clinic - Tools for Healthier Lives
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)---NIH division for biomedical and behavioral research in human  communication, which supports and conducts research on the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language.

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