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CDS465: Senior Capstone Research Guide

Librarian: Elin O'Hara
Phone: 564-5187
Email: oharaea@plattsburgh.edu
Office: Feinberg Library 247

Citation Help

MLA/APA/Chicago:

http://www.plattsburgh.edu/library/instruction/citationguides.php

Finding CDS Books

The Feinberg Library Catalog can lead you to books on your topic!

Books generally provide in-depth coverage on a subject, but because of the amount of time involved to write and publish, the information is not always up-to-the-minute. Look for books on the scientific and medical aspects of communication disorders in the Q and R sections and on education aspects of communication disorders in the L sections of all the library's books :reference, Circulating (2nd floor for L's and 3rd floor for Q's and R's) and special collections.

If our library doesn't have what you want, go to WorldCat or SUNYCat to search other library catalogs. Our new ILLiad system lets you borrow anything you find in WorldCat or SUNYCat. Your request is delivered to you between 3 days and 2 weeks for free!

Examples:
Neuroscience of communication / Douglas B. Webster. QP355.2 .W43 1999
Hearing aids : standards, options, and limitations / edited by Michael Valente. RF300 .H43 2002
Augmentative and alternative communication : a handbook of principles and practices / [edited by] Lyle L. Lloyd, Donald R. Fuller, Helen H. Arvidson. RC423 .A927 1997
Learning disabilities sourcebook : basic information about disorders such as dyslexia, visual and auditory processing deficits, edited by Linda M. Shin. LC4705 .L434 1998

Finding Journal Articles

Journals are shelved alphabetically on the 3rd floor, or will be online and searchable in a full-text research database. Journal articles are good sources for current information. Many journals are devoted to a specific field of study, such as Brain and Language. Articles appearing in these journals are much more authoritative than comparative newspaper articles as most journals have a very stringent peer review process for submission.
Compared to books, journal articles tend to focus on a specific aspect of a topic and are less useful for general overviews or histories of a broad topic.

Click here for a list of CDS journals in print at Feinberg Library.

Try these CDS-related databases! You can also go to the subject database menu on the library homepage and click on Communication Disorders & Sciences.

Useful General Full-Text Databases:
ProQuest Research Library
Academic Search Premier

Major Subject Databases:
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.
ComDisDome (Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome)
The premier information service for students and professionals in speech-language pathology and audiology.
Dissertation Abstracts
Indexes 150 years worth of U.S. doctoral dissertations.
Education Research Complete
Full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Includes all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
ERIC
Comprehensive index to education topics.
Health Reference Center
Comprehensive, full-text database to health issues. Provides access to periodicals and reference works.
Medline
Medical journals references from 1965 to present.
PsycARTICLES
Provides full-text access to publications of the American Psychological Association (APA), including more than 50 peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books. Full-text of journals is from 1985 to present; full-text of book chapters is from 2000-2002. Journals and book chapters are indexed and abstracted in PsycINFO.
PsycINFO
The premier abstracting service for psychology journals, covers from 1872 to present.
ScienceDirect --
Full-text of over 1,700 scientific, business, and medical, and social sciences journals from Elsevier publishing.

See Also --Communication Abstracts Available in Feinberg Library's Reference Room

Getting To Specific Online Journal Content:
Journals AtoZ (The link is called Is a Journal Available Online) -- an online directory of journals with full-text available.
How To Guide

Finding Journals: A Brief Guide

Useful Web Sites

www.geocities.com/athens/3238 (book on how to do research)

www.eric.ed.gov (ERIC Clearinghouse for educational information)

www.herring.org/speech.html (Speech Pathology Language Websites)

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/fcgi (PubMed Central at the National Libraries of Medicine)

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2001/february2/communication.cfm (List of Communication Sciences and Disorders websites from the Association of College and Research Libraries)

http://www.listen-up.org/index.html (Listen-Up web site with resources for parents, students, and practitioners)

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/ (The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

http://www.speechandhearing.net/lecture/index.html (Internet Institute for Speech and Hearing: Lecture Room with online tutorials)

Professional Organizations

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

American Academy of Audiology

Listen-up Web List of Associations and Organizations

Long Island Speech-Language-Hearing Association List of Associations

This page created by: Elin O'Hara
Last Updated: February 3, 2009