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COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

• Search the EWU Catalog, WSU's Griffin Catalog, or Summit for books/videos.

   

   

• Search the EWU Databases and/or the WSU Databases for articles and article citations. (EWU students click here to set up your own personal password or PIN for off-campus access to EWU Databases; WSU students click here for off-campus access to WSU Databases.  While on the Riverpoint campus, students from both institutions may access both EWU and WSU databases.)

   

   

• Having trouble locating the full text of a particular article? Look here to see if EWU carries the journal in which your article appears.  Follow the instructions here to see if WSU carries the journal you're looking for.

   

   

• Request an Interlibrary Loan via ILLiad when the article you need is not available locally or online. (Click here to set up your ILLiad account first.)  Note:  ILLiad is provided to both EWU and WSU students at Riverpoint.

   

   

• EWU students may use RefWorks to collect, organize, and format your research references - makes APA and other citation styles a snap.  WSU students may register for EndNote through Web of Science.

   

   

   

Basic Tools for Searching Bibliographic Databases

• Boolean Operators

  These are the connecting terms -- and, or and not -- that allow you to arrange your search terms with logic and precision.  Use and to narrow your search, or to broaden your search, and not to exclude irrelevant records from your search.  Click here for a tutorial on Boolean Operators.

   

   

• Nesting

  Nesting is an extension of Boolean logic.  You must always remember to "nest" or group synonymous or related terms linked by the or operator.  Normally you use parantheses to nest such terms; alternatively some databases allow you to simply type the terms you want to nest together -- joined by the or operator -- in the same search box.  Click here for a further explanation. 

   

   

• Phrase Searching

  Most databases require that you enclose a phrase in quotation marks if you want to search on it as a phrase.  Click here for more.

   

   

• Truncation

  This is a handy way to cover multiple variations of a search term without having to type in each full-length term; you shorten your term to the first few relevant letters and then add the truncation character.  In most databases the truncation character is the asterisk (*) but in some cases it may be a question mark (?) or dollar sign ($) or some other character.  (Check the help section of a particular database to find out which character is used.)  Example:  adolescen* would find articles containing the terms "adolescence" or "adolescent" or "adolescents."  Click here for more. 

   

   

• Controlled Vocabulary

  These terms are sometimes referred to as descriptors, subject headings, or subject terms.  They are standardized terms developed as part of the structure of a particular database and used to identify the content of each item in the database in a consistent way.  An actual human reviews each item going into a database and assigns the appropriate term or terms.  Controlled vocabulary offers another tool for zeroing in on those needles in the database haystack. Click here for more.

   

   

   

Key Databases for Communication Disorders Research

• PsycInfo   [EWU Link (Ovid)][WSU Link (CSA)]

  Comprehensive database for psychology covering around 2,000 journals & relevant dissertations back to 1806, as well as book chapters back to 1987 (but there are some older book citations).

• PubMed    [EWU link(NLM)][WSU link(NLM)]

• Medline   [EWU Link (OCLC)][WSU Link (OCLC)]

  Comprehensive index to all aspects of medicine, covering over 4,800 journals, back to 1965; PubMed includes expanded biomedical coverage back to 1950.

   

   

• CINAHL (EBSCO)   [EWU Link][WSU Link]

  Comprehensive database for nursing and allied health, with full text articles from around 325 journals and trade magazines, and indexing to over 2700 titles, back to 1981. (A few titles are indexed even earlier, back to 1937.) Also includes citations to books, dissertations, and conference proceedings.

   

   

• ProQuest Health & Medical   [EWU Link][WSU Link]

  Full text articles from hundreds of medical and pharmaceutical journals and magazines, along with indexing from MEDLINE, the most comprehensive biomedical index.

   

   

• ERIC  [EWU Link (OCLC)][WSU Link (CSA)][USDE Link]

  Comprehensive database for education, indexing over 1000 journals and magazines, as well as non-journal materials (books, videos, conference papers, technical reports, etc.) in the subset called ERIC Documents/RIE. Some recent ERIC Documents are available full text online.

   

   

   

Links of Interest for Communication Disorders Research

 

 

 

 

• WSU Libraries Guide to Speech and Hearing Sciences  
• ASHA: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Data and Research Page 
• AAAF: American Academy of Audiology Foundation Research Page  
• AAO-HNS: American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery Research Page  
• CSTR: Center for Speech Technology Research  

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Stuck, stymied, baffled, or bewildered? Visit or call the Riverpoint Campus Library, or contact Jonathan Potter by email or at 368-6557.

 

 

 

* Note:  This page is reproduced from the EWU Libraries Class Guides page for Communication Disorders.

Updated 5/5/08

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