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Academic Search Elite (1984 to present)
Provides indexing and abstracting for nearly 3,000 journals & magazines and provides full text for nearly 1,530 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.CINAHL (1982 to present)
CINAHL/Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature includes speech pathology and audiology.ERIC (1966 to present)
Produced by the Department of Education and Educational Resources Information Center/ERIC, it indexes child language development and special education journal articles and unpublished documents.Deafness and Communication Disorders (1987 to present)[http://chid.nih.gov/subfile/subfile.html]
Deafness and Communication Disorders is a database on hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech & language and is part of the COMBINED HEALTH INFORM ATION DATABASE/CHID. National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders/NIDCD Information Clearinghouse quarterly updates the database of references to brochures, books, articles, fact sheets, organizations and hard-to-find educational materials on deafness and communication disorders. It contains abstracts and availability information.Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (1973 to present)
Includes speech, language, pathology and audiology.MEDLINE (1951 to present)
The National Library of Medicine's major index for worldwide biomedical journals; strong in otolaryngology and related topics. It is available through remote access only to students, faculty and staff.MLA Bibliography (1963-present)
The Modern Language Association's index to sources in the fields of literature, languages, linguistics, folklore and includes child language development.PSYCINFO (1887 to present)
The electronic version of Psychological Abstracts (from 1927); good for audiology/hearing testing and psycholinguistics research.PUBMED Provides access to MEDLINE (1951 to present)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed Provides access to MEDLINE (1951-present), PreMEDLINE, molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data and links to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers. Some journals may require that you register, subscribe or pay a fee in order to view the full-text of an article.SCIENCE DIRECT (Latest 5 years to present)
ScienceDirect is a database covering most of the journals published by Elsevier Science, its subsidiaries, and some other scholarly publishers. Full text and full page images are provided for most of these journals.WILEY INTERSCIENCE
Access to over 300 online journals from publisher John Wiley & Sons in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, business, and psychologyElectronic Journals
The library also subscribes to a number of electronic journals. If you want to search for electronic journals, go to the Libraries' e-journals page.Internet Sites
These Internet sites may be of particular interest to students and faculty in communicative disorders.
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
[http://www.agbell.org]
A.G. Bell, founded in 1890 by Alexander Graham Bell as an information provider and support network, is an international membership organization for parents of children who are deaf and hard of hearing, adults with hearing loss, and professionals who serve children with hearing loss.American Speech-Language-Hearing Association/ASHA
[http://www.asha.org]
This Web site is a resource for members, persons interested in consumer information, and for those wanting career and membership information.
American Psychological Association
[http://www.apa.org]
The material provided covers commonly asked questions regarding how to cite electronic media and is excerpted from the new 5th edition of the Publication ManualHealthy People 2010
[http://www.healthypeople.gov]
The new decade's better health agenda has a new focus, "Vision and Hearing." The vision and hearing chapter of the written plan focuses on eight specific hearing-related objectives.Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project Hearing Objectives [http://phpartners.org/hp/hearing.html]
The purpose of the HP2010 Information Access Project is to make information and evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010 objectives easier to find. The National Library of Medicine and the Public Health Foundation staff have worked together to develop pre-formulated search strategies for selected Healthy People 2010 focus areas.
National Association of the Deaf
[http://www.nad.org/]
NAD is the oldest (founded in 1880) and largest organization representing people with hearing disabilities in the United States.National Center for Voice & Speech
[http://www.ncvs.org]
NCVS was formed in 1990 through a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH) primarily as a research organization. The NCVS consortium is composed of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the University of Iowa, the University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders/NIDCD
[http://www.nidcd.nih.gov]
The federal government's focal point for biomedical and behavioral research in human communication. It includes the Deafness and Communication Disorders database.Net connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences
[http://www.mnsu.edu./comdis/kuster2/welcome.html]
An Internet Guide by Judith Kuster
Virtual Tour of the Ear
[http://www.augie.edu/perry/ear/ear.htm]
Created by Perry Hanavan (Professor of Audiology at Augustana College, South Dakota). It contains links to resources on the ear as a hearing mechanism, on auditory disorders, on advances and methods of rehabilitation, and multimedia demonstrations.
Voice Foundation
[http://www.voicefoundation.org]
The Voice Foundation, established in 1969, is dedicated to solving voice problems through funding research, promoting public education, publishing (Journal of Voice) and disseminating information through the media.Academic Departments
Department of Communicative Disorders
[http://www.as.ua.edu/comdis/]College of Arts and Sciences
[http://www.as.ua.edu/as/]
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