LibGuides: Communication Sciences & Disorders: Indexes & Databases

Indexes & Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window This database provides access to health science literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines. In addition, it includes standards of practice and evidence-based care guidelines.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window The Cochrane Library is the gold standard for evidence-based research to inform healthcare decision making. It is a collection of databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.
Includes full text of 6 evidence-based healthcare databases: the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, The Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database.

Emerald Health and Social Care eJournal Collection
Indexes, abstracts and provides some full text of articles from international journals in subjects including intellectual/learning disabilities, mental health, criminology and forensic practice, working with vulnerable groups and management of services.
ERIC (EBSCO)
Indexes and abstracts educational journals and unpublished educational materials. Includes the Resource in Education (RIE) file of document citations, the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of
journal article citations, the ERIC Digest records featuring the full-text of the original document. The EBSCOhost version of ERIC provides links to full-text for some recent journal articles, (EJ). ERIC documents, (ED), published in recent years may be available in a .pdf file through
Health Source
Indexes health journals and provides full-text for nearly 600 scholarly journals in many medical disciplines.
Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source
Indexes, abstracts, and access to full text journals, evidence based resources, and dissertations pertaining to healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, complementary medicine and much more.

R2 Digital Library This link opens in a new window
R2 Library is an eBook database for Nursing and Speech Therapy/Audiology and includes over 500 books from leading health science publishers.. New titles are added to the database as they become available.

Web of Science
Consists of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index® that index over 8,400 journals and provide abstracts for more recent articles; features citation searching from a known reference to find newer literature.

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