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General:
Academic Search Complete - A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database.
Dissertations and Theses: Full Text - Contains more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
Web of Science (Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge) - Covers more than 12,000 journals in all subject area. Also includes citations to conference proceedings.
Communication:
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - Contains abstracts to the world's published literature on the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, speech, communication, and related topics.
Communication and Mass Media Complete - Provides indexing for some 400 periodicals, including full text for over 200 titles, in areas related to communication and mass media.
Medical:
PubMed - Provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases. Links to the full text articles are provided when available, subject to UT subscription status.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text - The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines.
Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition - Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
MEDLINE - Provides bibliographic indexing from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
PsycINFO - Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including: anthropology, business, education, law, linguistics, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, physiology, psychiatry, and sociology.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection - Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
MD Consult - Designed for clinical practitioners, providing practical and time-saving features that let you quickly access the precise information you need.
Education:
ERIC - Provides a digital library of education-related resources.
Engineering:
IEEE Xplore - Provides full-text access to IEEE and IEE journals, conference proceedings, and current IEEE standards covering electrical and computer engineering, electronics, computer science, and physics.
Compendex - Contains more than 11 million citations with abstracts from more than 4,500 journals, reports and conference proceedings covering fields of engineering and technology.
AAC - Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies assist people with severe communication disabilities to participate more fully in their social roles including interpersonal interaction, learning, education, community activities, employment, volunteerism, care management, and so on.
The mission of Hearing Health Foundation is to prevent and cure hearing loss through ground breaking research.
National Stuttering Association
The National Stuttering Association (NSA), the largest self-help support organization in the United States for people who stutter. Our mission is to bring hope and empowerment to children and adults who stutter, their families, and professionals through support, education, advocacy, and research.
Stuttering Foundation of America
The Stuttering Foundation provides free online resources, services and support to those who stutter and their families, as well as support for research into the causes of stuttering.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 150,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists and speech, language, and hearing scientists.
NIDCD: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Established in 1988, NIDCD is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language.
Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences
The ANCDS mission's is to "promote quality service to persons with neurologic communication disorders by developing training guidelines for preparation of speech-language pathologists for clinical practice with this population, developing standards for clinical practice of speech-language pathologists with this population, and to develop the standards and provide the means to certify clinical specialists in this area of practice."
The NIH is home to one of the largest neuroscience research centers in the world. Over 150 laboratories, originating from eleven different Institutes, conduct research in the basic, translational, and clinical neurosciences.
The Academy of Aphasia is an organization made up of researchers who study the language problems of people who have neurological diseases. Some of these researchers also provide clinical services to help people improve their language skills following strokes or other illnesses. Although this web site is primarily for the service of members, we have provided a few links containing general information for people with aphasia.
The Acoustical Society of America is "the premier international scientific society in acoustics, dedicated to increasing and diffusing knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications."
The primary aims of the Society are to increase knowledge and understanding of the ear, hearing and balance; disorders of the ear, hearing, and balance, and preventions of these disorders; and habilitation and rehabilitation of individuals with hearing and balance dysfunction.
The American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA)
The ACPA is an international non-profit medical society of health care professionals who treat and/or perform research on birth defects of the head and face.
The Dysphagia Research Society (DRS) was established to serve researchers and clinicians from different areas of inquiry who share a research interest in normal and disordered swallowing and related functions.
The National Aphasia Association (NAA) is a nonprofit organization that promotes public education, research, rehabilitation and support services to assist people with aphasia and their families.
Suggest a helpful link or other information to be added to this page.Robyn Rosenberg
Communication Sciences and Disorders Librarian
(512) 495-4646
