Communication Disorders

Best Database Choices for Communication Disorders


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All Communication Disorders Databases

ACP Journal Club

This link will take you to the Cochrane Review site. When searching for items add ACP Journal Club as a Source term. This source consists of two e-journals ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group. [Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews]

CINAHL:  (EBSCO), CINAHL (OVID)

Lists articles from over 500 English-language journals and entries for healthcare books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, professional standards, software and audiovisual materials. Pre-CINAHL provides limited access to the most recent articles.

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects

[Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews] DARE is a database produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. This database contains critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. DARE records cover topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment. While the database does not provide full text, if you click on the title link to the record and then select "Full Record," this database often provides a link to the original research or paper. If we have electronic access to that publication, you will receive the full text.

Dissertations & Theses Full Text    1861-present

Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts   1973-present film 

Search for journal articles on all aspects of the nature and use of language. Includes book reviews. Updated monthly.

Medline (EBSCO),    Medline (OVID),    Medline (CSA)film    1966-present

All aspects of biomedicine and allied health fields plus biological and physical sciences and humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Three companies, EBSCO,;OVID; and CSA provide access to the Medline database. The 3 companies may update their respective versions of the database at different times, but otherwise the content is the same.

Old Medline   1951-1965

Contains approximately 1,525,000 citations to articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences and allied health sciences from 1951 through 1965.

PsycARTICLES   1985-present

Full text of articles from 45 psychology journals. Use PsycINFO to search for specific articles.

Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Searchable full text of 30 psychology journals published by Sage and some associated societies.

PsycINFO   1887-present film 

Covers journal articles in more than 30 languages and books in English about psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education.

PubMed (National Library of Medicine )   1950s-present

Citations from MedLine and for biomedical articles from other journals form the 1950s on. UVa also provides access to the Medline database through 3 other vendors (See Medline above). When you access Medline from these 3 other vendors, you can access the full text of journal articles contracted by UVa. We hope to provide this same service in the near future for PubMed.

PubMed Central: PMC

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

ScienceDirect

Full text of articles from journals published by Elsevier Science.

Web of Knowledge / Web of Science   1981-present film 

Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.

Wiley Cochrane (Systematic Reviews & Protocols)

The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.