TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY Pickler Memorial Library Truman State University

Information for Communication Disorders  Graduate Students 

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  • Basics of keyword searching in electronic databases.

  • Databases  Tab Searches EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite to tell you which magazines, newspapers and journals have published articles on the topics you want.

    • More Databases   Provides lists of the 152 databases on all subject areas that Pickler Memorial Library subscribes to for Truman students, faculty and staff.  

  • Journals  Tab  Provides a search box for specific magazine, newspaper or journal titles.  Tells you where the periodical article is and if it is electronic or in print. In the example below you would type American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology into the Journal Tab box.

        Yoder, Paul. “Predicting Lexical Density Growth Rate in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders.”  American Journal of
                    Speech-Language Pathology  15.4 ( Nov. 2006):378-388.

  • 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.

  • MedLine - 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.

         ►Communication Disorders Research Guide         
        ►Citing Sources        

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