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ComDisDome (ProQuest)
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Information sources relating to communication disorders, including audiology and speech-language pathology.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest)
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Medline (PubMed)
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1966-present. The U.S. National Library of Medicine's database of biomedical journal literature.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (Ovid)
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LexisNexis Academic
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News, business, legal, and reference information. Full-text newspapers include the Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Times (London), Financial Times (London), and many others.
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Merck Index (CambridgeSoft)
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PsycINFO (ProQuest)
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Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
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Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004-present), Science Citation Index Expanded (1999-present), and Social Sciences Citation Index (1972-present). It offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines, and is useful as a citation analysis tool.
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