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Peer-Reviewed Journal?
"Peer-Reviewed" or "Refereed" Journals are considered scholarly. If you want to know more, watch this brief YouTube tutorial from North Carolina State University called Peer Review in 3 Minutes.
Not sure if the article you've found is from a peer-reviewed journal? Use the link below and search for the journal. Hint: Enter the journal name and select "TI Title" to search. If it is "Peer-Reviewed," that line will say "YES."
- Serials Directory This link opens in a new window Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This database contains nearly 250,000 U.S. and international titles
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Welcome to the Communication Sciences Disorders Guide. This guide will introduce you to resources that may help you with your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Find Articles (Peer Reviewed Journals and More)
Tip: Start your research in Medline Complete. It's the best source for peer-reviewed journal articles from major communication disorders journals!
- MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more, dating back to 1857 with full-text back to 1865. MEDLINE Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals.
- Communication Source This link opens in a new window Offers 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.
- Education Source This link opens in a new window The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, conference papers, and citations for over 4 million articles.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Use this link to show PennWest full text in your Google Scholar results.
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.
Websites for Communication Sciences Disorders
Communication Sciences Disorders Journals
Click the following titles to locate these titles online. If you are looking for a journal not on this list, search for it in the library's AtoZ Journals.
Books and E-books
- Library CatalogSearch the PennWest Libraries' online catalog to find physical items and eBooks.
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.
- Ebsco eBook Collections This link opens in a new window Access thousands of full-text electronic books across multidisciplinary and subject specific collections.
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window Access over 170,000 full-text electronic books across multidisciplinary and subject specific collections.
- Google Books Search the full-text of millions of books. Use as a "discovery" tool to find books on your topic. Books in the public domain (generally, pre-1923) are available full-text. Newer books offer limited viewing--from many pages to nothing.Note: This is just for books (and some magazines). To find scholarly articles, use Google Scholar.
Find Streaming Videos
- Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window The database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles. There are thousands of award-winning films, along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Access streaming videos in the humanities, sciences, medicine, business, social sciences, and more.
- YouTube See the official APA Style guide for how to cite YouTube References.