Communication Sciences and Disorders Resources
Welcome to the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Research Guide. Within this guide, you will find information and links to Speech Pathology and Audiology related resources that you may find useful for your classwork and research.
Scholarly Articles
This page provides links to databases and journals where you can find articles and clinical information to help you with your research.
Recommended Resources
Communication Sciences & Disorders Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowAPA PsycInfo, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,400 periodicals in dozens of languages.
- APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new windowArticles from all of the publications of the American Psychological Association.
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new windowThis database provides access to health science literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines. In addition, it includes standards of practice and evidence-based care guidelines.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowWith indexes and abstracts more than 600 journals, 300 of which also include full text articles, CMMC contains a Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing as well as over 3,000 author biographies.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is a good starting point for finding articles on almost any topic. It contains over 47,000,000 records to scholarly publications, trade publications and conference proceedings. Scopus is an excellent database for cited reference searching. It does not contain full text articles, but users can get access to full text by using the Get It button.
Evidence-Based Practice Databases
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new windowThis database provides access to health science literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines. In addition, it includes standards of practice and evidence-based care guidelines.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowThe Cochrane Library is the gold standard for evidence-based research to inform healthcare decision making. It is a collection of databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.
- PubMed Clinical QueriesPubMed Clinical Queries allows you to quickly and easily search for relevant clinical literature on etiology, prognosis, diagnosis and therapy of diseases and diagnostics. PubMed Clinical Queries is designed to filter one search by three clinical research areas: Clinical Study Categories, Systematic Reviews, and Medical Genetics.
- NeuroBITE (previously PsycBITE)Database that catalogues studies of cognitive, behavioural and other treatments for psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment (ABI).
- speechBITEDatabase of intervention studies across the scope of speech pathology practice.
Biomedicine Databases
- EMBASE This link opens in a new windowEMBASE is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
- MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new windowFull-text database providing access to top-tier biomedical and health journals.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowThis multidisciplinary resource indexes thousands of Elsevier journals and books. Full text is available for some of these publications. It is especially strong in topics related to the sciences, medicine, and technology.
Dissertations & Theses Databases
- Dissertations & Theses at University of Houston (2010-Present) This link opens in a new windowThe University of Houston Libraries collect and make publicly available all electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) produced in UH graduate and PhD programs through the UH institutional repository.
- Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowOnline access to 8 ProQuest dissertations & theses databases : Dissertations & Theses @ University of Houston, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Business, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Health & Medicine, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Health & Medicine, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: History, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Literature & Language, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Science & Technology, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Social Sciences, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: The Arts.
Clinical Tools
- DynaMed This link opens in a new windowDynaMed is a clinical reference tool of more than 3000 topics designed for physicians and health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journal and systemic evidence review databases.
- UpToDate This link opens in a new windowA point-of-care clinical resource. Useful for quick information about conditions, drugs, etc.
Top Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology Journals
Top 5 audiology and speech-language pathology journals with the highest 5-year impact factor rankings in Journal Citation Reports. If the full text is available from the UH Libraries, the title is in red (click to access).
- Hearing Research Provides a forum on basic peripheral and central auditory mechanisms, with emphasis on experimental and clinical studies.
- Ear and Hearing Covers all aspects of auditory and vestibular disorders. Provides a multidisciplinary forum on the various factors that contribute to identification, remediation, and audiologic and vestibular rehabilitation.
- Brain and Language Covers the large variety of modern techniques in cognitive neuroscience, including functional and structural brain imaging, electrophysiology, cellular and molecular neurobiology, genetics, lesion-based approaches, and computational modeling.
- Trends in Hearing Reports on the latest scientific information and technical innovations in human hearing, hearing loss, hearing aids, auditory implants, and aural rehabilitation.
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication Dedicated to the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) that report research concerning assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, and education of people who use or have the potential to use AAC systems; or that discuss theory, technology, and systems development relevant to AAC.
What is a library database?
Your instructor or subject librarian may throw around the term "library database" a lot, but what exactly do they mean? This video from the University of Houston Libraries explains the term and how you can use databases for research.
Transcript available through YouTube.
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