This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

Education:  Education (General): L7-L991 ------- History of Education: LA5-LA2396 ------- Theory and Practice of Education: LB5-LB3640 ----- Teaching (Principles and Practices): LB 1025-LB1050.7 ------- Special Aspects of Education: LC8-LC6691 ----- Special Education: LC3950-LC3990.4 ----- Exceptional Children and Youth: LC3950-4806.5 ----- Gifted Children and Youth: LC3991-LC4000 ----- Handicapped/Learning Disabled Children And Youth: LC4001-LC4806.5 ----- Textbooks: LT6-LT1001

Medicine:  Neurosciences/Biological psychiatry: RC321-RC571

Social Sciences:  Handicapped (including blind, deaf, mentally handicapped, physically handicapped): HV1551-HV3024

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

The following services are recommended for first-year students and non-majors, as well as advanced students and researchers:

• Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text.
• CINAHL (and pre-CINAHL): These databases are devoted to the fields of nursing and allied health. Available via EBSCOhost.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete: This EBSCOhost database includes abstracts and some full-text of articles in the communication field.
• Digital Dissertations: For access to doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
• ERIC (EBSCOhost): Covers over 1000 journals plus research reports and other types of literature on all aspects of education.
• Education Full Text: Indexes articles since 1983, abstracts articles since 1994, and selected full text since 1996.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.
• Health Source: Consumer Edition: This database provides health information for the health care consumer (layman). A full-text database available via EBSCOhost.
• MEDLINE: This EBSCOhost-based database provides abstracting of the primary research literature.
• PsycINFO (EBSCOhost): Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals, plus dissertations, books and book chapters, from 1887 to the present.
• Teacher Reference Center (EBSCOhost): Indexes and abstracts over 270 trade journals and magazines for teachers and administrators.
• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• KYVL (Kentucky Virual Library): This collection of databases provides the convenience of searching the EBSCOhost databases, as well as others such as Novelist, using a wide variety of search options and the same interface. Links to Kentucky library catalogs, government information, and teacher resources are also available.

Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]

3. Monographic Reference Works in Helm Library

The following are recommended for use:

• Concise Encyclopedia of Language Pathology Helm Ref RC423.C656
• Encyclopedia of Special Education Helm Ref LC4007.E53
• To browse for materials such as handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc. pertaining to Communication Disorders, search the Reference shelves in Helm and the ERC within the LC3950-LC4806.5, RC321-RC571,and HV1551-HV3024 range of call numbers. Resources for Communication Disorders teachers can be found in the Educational Resources Center within this call number range also.

4. Department of Communication Disorders

• Department Homepage: http://www.wku.edu/communicationdisorders/
  
• Department Faculty/Staff: http://www.wku.edu/communicationdisorders/faculty.php

5. Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)

• American Academy of Audiology: http://www.audiology.org/
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: http://www.asha.org/
• Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association: http://www.kysha.org/
• National Association for the Education of Young Children: http://www.naeyc.org/
• National Council for Social Studies: http://www.ncss.org/
• National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association: http://www.nsslha.org/

6. Web Sites Recommended by Department of Communication Disorders Faculty

• Education Resource Organizations Directory (USDE): http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/
• Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center: http://www.hsdc.org/
• Kentucky Department of Education: http://www.education.ky.gov/
• Kentucky Virtual University: http://www.kyvu.org/
• The Listen-Up Web [speech pathology]: http://www.listen-up.org/
• National Center for Family Literacy: http://www.famlit.org/
• National Center for Voice and Speech: http://www.ncvs.org/
• North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL): http://www.ncrel.org/
• Rehab World: http://www.rehabworld.com/
• Scope of Practice in Audiology: http://www.asha.org/docs/html/SP2004-00192.html
• Scope of Practice in Speech-Language Pathology: http://www.asha.org/docs/html/SP2007-00283.html
• Speech-LanguagePathologist.org: http://www.speechtherapist.net/
• Speech Language Pathology Web Sites: http://www.herring.org/speech.html
• Speech-Language Pathology Website: http://home.ica.net/~fred/
• Speech Language Pathology World: http://www.rehabworld.com/rwstdex.htm
• Speech Ring: http://www.bungalowsoftware.com/webring.htm
• Virtual Bowling Green Kentucky: http://bg.ky.net/index.shtml
• WKU College of Education and Behavioral Sciences: http://edtech.tph.wku.edu/
• WKU School of Teacher Education: http://edtech.tph.wku.edu/~teached/TED.html

University Libraries Liaison: Carol Watwood (x53912 / carol.watwood@wku.edu) Last updated 3/02/2007
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