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Speech and Language Therapy: Databases

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Databases provide access to high-quality peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, dissertations and many other resources. 

These databases have been especially selected for this subject area. When carrying out your research for a piece of work, you will need to search more than one database to find all of the journal articles relevant to your topic, as each database covers different journal titles.

Database Spotlight

ComDisDome Search Interface

ComDisDome (ProQuest)

ComDisDome is an indexing and abstracting tool covering the communications disorders literature, with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology. In one convenient location, the database will quickly identify and connect you to reliable information from multiple sources in your field, including journal articles and books, along with access to profiles of researchers working in this area.

ComDisDome will help users to stay current on the latest findings and trends in communications disorders research, improve patient communication and education, write research reports and grants, and locate and communicate with researchers in the field.

Subjects covered include:

  • Audiologic management
  • Audiology
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
  • Communication mechanism and systems
  • Electroneuronography (ENoG)
  • Hearing assessment
  • Hearing conservation
  • Hearing impairment
  • Hearing science
  • Paediatric audiology

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Essential databases

The following are important databases for this subject area, however if you don't see what you're looking for, please go to the Database Directory for Speech and Language Therapy to browse a wider selection.

 

  • ComDisDome Essential
    ComDisDome is an indexing and abstracting tool covering the communications disorders literature, with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology. In one convenient location, the database will quickly identify and connect you to reliable information from multiple sources in your field, including journal articles and books, along with access to profiles of researchers working in this area. ComDisDome will help users to stay current on the latest findings and trends in communications disorders research, improve patient communication and education, write research reports and grants, and locate and communicate with researchers in the field.
  • Medline Essential
    MEDLINE is a bibliographic database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The database contains millions of citations, derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals, and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from the NLM controlled vocabulary. Extending back to 1946, annual input now exceeds 700,000 citations. Updated daily, MEDLINE offers novice and expert searchers seamless and up-to-the-minute access to over 23 million of the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals in nearly 40 languages (60 languages for older journals). English abstracts are included in more than 80% of the records.
  • Scopus Essential
    Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers an overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, you can make sure that critical research from around the world is not missed.
  • Cochrane Library Essential
    The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.
  • PsycInfo Essential
    APA PsycInfo is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Updated weekly, APA PsycInfo provides access to journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations.
    About 99% of the journals in the database are peer-reviewed, dating from the early 1800s to the present. Nearly 80% of the database contains journal records that are accepted for coverage if archival, scholarly, peer-reviewed, and regularly published with titles, abstracts, and keywords in English. 30% of the database contains material of European origin, while an additional 12% of the database is from US dissertations.
  • Embase Essential
    Embase (Excerpta Medica Database) is a biomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier B.V., containing more than 30 million records including articles from more than 8,500 journals published world-wide. It contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research, pharmacology and toxicology. Embase adds over 1 million records annually; the original Embase part of the databases contains ca. 20 million records, spanning from 1974 to present, from 6,100 journals. The MEDLINE supplement contains ca. 10 million records from 2,400 journals, with unique records from MEDLINE. Weekly average updates of 4.5K Articles in Press and 11K In Process records on Embase, part of the delivered In Process records overwrite the AiPs. Embase (Fully-indexed) will average 17K records per week. Over the past year Elsevier has processed 350K Conference records, on average 6.8K records per week. Each record contains the full bibliographic citation, indexing terms, and codes; and 80% of all citations in Embase include author-written abstracts. The Embase journal collection is international with peer-reviewed journals from more than 90 countries. Coverage focuses on the following core topics (with significant overlap between topics) representing over 70% of Embase content: Pharmacology and toxicology; General clinical medicine; Genetics, biochemistry & molecular biology; Neurology & behavioral medicine; Microbiology & infectious disease; Cardiology & hematology; Psychiatry & mental health; Oncology; Healthcare policy & management; Allergy & immunology; Pediatrics; Endocrinology & metabolism; Obstetrics & gynecology; Biomedical engineering & medical devices; Anesthesiology & intensive care; Gastroenterology; Respiratory medicine; Nephrology & urology; Dermatology; Geriatrics & gerontology.
  • Web of Science Essential
    Web of Science Core Collection provides access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and conference proceedings. Includes current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900. All cited references for all publications are fully indexed and searchable. Search across all authors and all author affiliations.Track citation activity with Citation Alerts. See citation activity and trends graphically with Citation Report.Use Analyze Results to identify trends and publication patterns.
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Essential
    Covers the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics.
  • PubMed central : an archive of life science journals. Essential
    PubMed is a free internet service developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine. This database provides access to citations from biomedical literature from a range of sources, including Medline records from 1950 - present.
  • Science Direct Essential
    Science Direct provides full-text access to over 2,400 journals, plus book series, encyclopaedias and other reference works
  • TRIP pro turning research into practice Essential
    Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internets premier source of evidence-based content. Our motto is Find evidence fast and this is something we aim to deliver for every single search.As well as research evidence we also allow clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

Key database categories

Follow the links below to browse databases for specific types of resources.

Database Directory

You can use our Database Directory to browse a broader range of databases that are relevant to Speech and Language Therapy as well as other subjects. The directory also allows you to identify databases that provide access to specific types of resources (e.g. Full Text Articles, Streaming Video, Patents, Theses and Dissertations, and much more).

Database Directory - Speech and Language Therapy

 

Research at the University of Manchester

The University of Manchester's research is internationally recognised. Go to Research Explorer, Manchester's research database, to discover the breadth of research produced by staff across the University.

Browse research publications from the Division of Psychology, Communication and Neuroscience (please note: whilst many of the publications listed are available to access/Open Access, some records are for forthcoming titles awaiting publication).

 

Research Explorer Search Interface

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