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For a more in-depth look at the differences, please visit our Scholarly Journals guide.

DATABASES

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CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
The definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database - with no embargo. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU models and research instruments.
Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline.
The most comprehensive resource on the market for communication research. Communication Source was developed from a merger of high-quality EBSCO databases, Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly published by Sage), and includes many unique sources not previously available in other databases.
Health & Medicine This link opens in a new window
Search 17 ProQuest databases simultaneously. Comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.
In-depth coverage from over 1,500 publications with almost 1,300 available in full text and of these, over 900 include MEDLINE® indexing.
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Massive journal and e-book collection. Contains core scholarly journals from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication
Linguistics Database This link opens in a new window
Full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
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Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE Ultimate uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
MEDLINE Ultimate is also the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,700 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, over 900 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search,Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection. This wide-ranging file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index - with no embargo. With coverage dating back to 1857 and full-text back to 1865, MEDLINE Ultimate is the definitive research tool for medical literature.
Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
The largest aggregated full-text database in the market today, with thousands of periodical titles and millions of full-text articles available. Includes ABI/Inform and Hoover's Company Profiles.
PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals.
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Archive of life sciences journal literature.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
over 1.5 million articles of scientific and scholarly research dating back to 1799. Items with an open lock icon are available for for free. Items without an icon may be purchased through the database for immediate 24-hour access or requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Users accessing Wiley Online Library are subject to Wiley's Terms and Conditions for Use.

BOOKS IN THE DEAN B. ELLIS LIBRARY

All books in the library are arranged by subject using the Library of Congress classification system for call numbers and subject headings. The main call number for communication disorders begins with "RC". The basic breakdown is as follows:

RC346 - RC429	-	Nervous system diseases. Speech disorders
RB151 - RB - 214	-	Theories of disease. Etiology. Pathogenesis
RF1 - RF547	-	Otorhinolaryngology
RJ370 - RJ550	-	Diseases of children and adolescents
HV697 - HV4959	-	Protection, assistance. Children with disabilities
HV1551 - HV3024	-	People with disabilities
P1 - P1091	-	Philology. Linguistics
P95 - P95.6	-	Oral communication. Speech
P99.5 - P99.6	-	Nonverbal communication
P118 - P118.75	-	Language Acquisition

The numbers that follow these beginning letters relate to the narrower scope of the item, for example: Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders (RC423 .B74 2015) vs. The Science and Practice of Stuttering Treatment (RC424 .S384 2012).

Occasionally a totally different call number will appear. This means the item is about more than communication disorders and higher importance was given to the other subject when the call number was assigned. For example, The Handbook of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Processes : Perspectives in Communication Disorders has a call number of BF455 .H26 2011 because it has to do more with psychology than communication disorders - but that doesn't mean it's not a great book for you to use!

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WORDS TO USE

Communication disorders cover a wide range of topics. If you're having trouble coming up with a topic, here are some keywords you can use that might help you get started:

"Alternative Communication"
Aphasia
Apraxia
Audiology
Children
"Communication Disorders"
"Communicative Disorders"
Diagnosis
Education
Language
"Language Intervention"
Learning
Motor Speech
Neurology
Rehabilitation
"Sign Language"
"Speech Language Pathology"
Speech Therapy
Stuttering
"Swallowing Disorders"
Treatment
"Voice Disorders"

If you want to combine keywords, use the connector AND between terms:

Adults AND "Communicative Disorders"

You can learn more about connectors in our Boolean Searching guide.