Library Guides & Databases
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Library databases are indexes that allow users to search for articles from various publications and/or periodicals (journals, newspapers, or magazines).
The information found in a database result consists of 3 parts: a citation, an abstract, and when it is available, the full-text of the article.
Citation- gives the publication information for the article or book chapter including author, title, periodical name, issue, date, and pages numbers.
Abstract -A brief summary of an article or book.
Full-text – a complete copy of the entire article.
Journal articles, books, dissertations, Web sites, and institutions in speech-language pathology and audiology.
Health and nursing periodicals, mostly academic.
Journals covering all areas of communication and mass media studies.
The authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.