Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences


Selected Purdue Libraries Databases for Audiology & Speech Sciences

  • ERIC(Educational Resources Information Center): This bibliographic database, sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the premier source for education-related research, documents, and journal articles.
  • Health and Safety Science Abstracts: Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety, occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. Coverage: over 1350 journals.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: This database provides abstracts and indexing for over 800 journals, with nearly 600 scholarly full text journals, focusing on many medical disciplines, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to drug monographs for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: This index provides access to citations and abstracts of books and book chapters, dissertations, and articles culled from over 1300 scholarly journals in the fields of linguistic research, language research, and research in the areas of speech, hearing, and language pathology. Coverage is 1973 to present.
  • MEDLINE: This database covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Indexes over 3,700 journals.
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: (Combines Applied Science and Technology Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, and Humanities Abstracts with other databases) This database provides cover-to-cover indexing for 492 key international English language periodicals in the Social Sciences, 500 English language periodicals in the Humanities, and 400 English-language periodicals in a wide variety of industrial and mechanical arts. Material include articles, review articles, scholarly replies to the literature, interviews, obituaries, and biographies. It is updated weekly with coverage from 1983 to the present. Abstracting begins with material in 1994.
  • PsycINFO: This database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to dissertations and journals (1,300 + ).
  • Web of Science: Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Collectively, these indexes cover 8,700 scholarly and technical journals completely and 13,300 selectively, in more than 230 disciplines. The Web of Science gateway allows searching the indexes singly or in combination. Features include cited reference searching, access to records related to a particular article, and number of times an article has been cited. Coverage extends back to 1977.

Selected Free Internet Indexes, Databases, Bibliographies

  • American Sign Language: is maintained by Scott Gaertner. This site has a number of tools for novices and experts alike to help you become proficient at fingerspelling.
  • Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms: Master's Tech, this dictionary has both animated and text definitions. The text definitions also have letter or number sign images to aid in visualizing the sign.
  • Community Language Collection: University of North Carolina, Charlotte, this collection includes audio- and text-clips, graphics and full transcripts from 40 speakers of American dialects from New York to Georgia, with most from North Carolina. You may search by narrative theme or by birth date, ranging from 1885-1915.
  • Ethnologue: SIL Bibliography: Listing of 6,800 main languages only. For 41,000 alternate names and dialects use the site search.  Ethnologue.com is a place where you can conveniently find many resources to help you with your research of the world's languages. Ethnologue.com is owned by SIL International, a service organization that works with people who speak the world's lesser-known languages.  The language data you will find on this site came from the Ethnologue database. The Ethnologue database has been an active research project for more than fifty years. It is probably the most comprehensive listing of information about the currently known languages of the world. Thousands of linguists and other researchers all over the world rely on and have contributed to the Ethnologue database.
  • LACITO Archive Project: The goals of the Archive Project are to archive linguistic documents associating transcription and recorded speech in a format which guarantees their conservation and their availability for research and disseminate the material to the academic community. The archived materials are mainly recordings of speech in unwritten languages, with associated annotation (transcriptions, interlinear glosses, translations, etc.), including synchronization data linking the annotation segment by segment to the recordings. At present, the publicly-accessible part of the Archive contains some 63 documents in languages of Nepal, Tanzania, Comoros, French Guiana and New Caledonia. The Archive is an ongoing project of the research group "Oral Tradition: languages and civilizations" of the French National Center for Scientific Research.
  • Language Museum: Maintained by Zhang Hong, the Language Museum is a linguistic web site which offers the samples of 2000 languages in the world. Most languages are living, and a few languages are extinct. Each sample includes 4 parts - (1) an image sample, (2) an English translation, (3) the statistics of speaking countries and populations, (4) the linguistic classification consisting of the language's family and branch. The Language Museum is constructed and maintained by Zhang Hong, a network engineer and amateur linguist in Beijing, China.
  • Language Varieties: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at the University of New England. This site is about forms of language that differ from the standard that is normally used in the media and taught in schools. These forms include pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects and indigenized varieties.
  • Rosetta Project: Stanford University Libraries, this site is a growing collection of descriptions, texts, analytic materials and audio files for 1,000 languages. The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone. In this updated iteration, our goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages. Our intention is to create a unique platform for comparative linguistic research and education as well as a functional linguistic tool that might help in the recovery of lost languages in unknown futures.
  • Speech Accent Archive: examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. Currently, we have obtained 264 speech samples.

Scholarly Societies and Associations

  • Acoustical Society of America: draws professionals from a wide variety of fields, for example Physics, Oceanography, Architecture, Music, and Speech and Hearing. This diversity, along with the opportunities provided for the exchange of knowledge and points of view, has become one of the Society's unique and strongest assets. From its beginning, the Acoustical Society has sought to serve the widespread interests of its members and the acoustics community in all branches of acoustics, both theoretical and applied.
  • Alexander Grahm Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: international membership organization and resource center on hearing loss and spoken language approaches and related issues.
  • American Academy of Audiology: The world's largest professional association in the area of Audiology. The organization promotes quality hearing and balance care by advancing the profession of audiology through leadership, advocacy, education, public awareness and support of research.
  • American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology: organization that serves to promote standards and professional communication among its members.
  • American Auditory Society: The primary aims of the Society are to increase knowledge and understanding of the ear, hearing and balance; disorders of the ear, hearing, and balance, and preventions of these disorders; and habilitation and rehabilitation of individuals with hearing and balance dysfunction.
  • American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association: international non-profit medical society of health care professionals who treat and/or perform research on birth defects of the head and face. The members of ACPA serve an extremely important role in the management of children and adults with cleft lip, cleft palate, and craniofacial anomalies.
  • The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: The mission of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is to ensure that all people with speech, language, and hearing disorders have access to quality services to help them communicate effectively.
  • Audio Engineering Society: The only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology.
  • Audiology Foundation of America: The goal of this organization is to transform audiology into a doctoral profession with the AuD as its distinctive designator. The AFA is committed to fostering the education and training of audiologists to meet the needs of the public, especially those with impaired hearing.
  • Center for Applied Linguistics: an organization of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems. CAL carries out a wide range of activities including research, teacher education, analysis and dissemination of information, design and development of instructional materials, technical assistance, conference planning, program evaluation, and policy analysis.
  • Educational Audiology Association: international organization of Audiologists and related professionals who deliver a full spectrum of hearing services to all children, particularly those in educational settings.
  • Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association: a state level association of professionals in speech pathology and audiology.
  • International Association of Physicians in Audiology: association aims to promote Audiological Medicine in research, clinical practice and training, and thus supplement the activities of other international organizations in the field of Audiology.
  • Linguistic Society of America: an association of academicians and linguists devoted to the advancement of the scientific analysis of language.
  • National Hearing Conservation Association: NHCA seeks the elimination of noise-induced hearing loss at work, home, and play.
  • National Student Speech Language Hearing Association - Purdue Chapter: Purdue chapter of NSSLHA is aimed at helping the students in the AUS program. NSSLHA provides an opportunity to speak with upper classmen about classes, projects, etc. and interest students to become more involved in the field of Speech and Hearing Science.
  • Stuttering Foundation of America: organization provides free online resources, services and support to those who stutter and their families, as well as support for research into the causes of stuttering.
  • Scholarly Societies Project: Languages: University of Waterloo Library, a list of links to scholarly associations.

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