LIBRARY RESEARCH SERVICES

• Reference Desk Service: The Reference Desk is located on the Main  Level (one floor below the Entrance) of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. Trained library staff will assist you 8 am - 9 pm Monday through Thursday, 8 am - 6 pm Friday, 10 am - 6:30 pm Saturday, and 10 am - 9:30 pm Sunday. By phone, call (413) 545-0150.
• Email Reference Service: A Reference Librarian will answer your factual questions, advise you on your research, or answer questions about library services by email within 48 hours. Send an email question from http://www.library.umass.edu/ask/.
• Individual Research Consultations: For individual assistance, contact James L. Craig at (413)-545-2674 or by email at: jlcraig@library.umass.edu
• Chat Reference Service:  UMass Librarians answer your reference questions or guide you in your research through a chat interface from 1 - 5 pm Monday through Friday. A librarian from any one of the five campuses of the UMass system may come online to chat with you in real-time.
• Interlibrary Loan Service: ILL obtains books, journal articles, and other library materials for you when the item is not owned by our Library. Check the Library Catalog first, then submit an ILL request at http://www.library.umass.edu/cm/ill/.
• Tutorial: Library staff created the self-paced, interactive MERLIN tutorial to teach you how to conduct library research.

In the University Library system books are arranged within call number areas.  Following are some call numbers to get you into a particular subject focus.

• Communication disorders sourcebook : basic information about deafness and hearing loss, speech and language disorders, voice disorders, balance and vestibular disorders, and disorders of smell, taste, and touch Ref RC423 .C644 1996
• Dictionary of communication disorders Ref RC423 .M597 1997
• A dictionary of speech therapy Ref RC423 .M615
• Encyclopedia of special education : a reference for the education of the handicapped and other exceptional children and adults

Ref LC4007 .E53 2000 + (3 volumes)
• Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness  Ref HV2365 .G35 1987 3 volumes
• Handbook of speech-language pathology and audiology Ref RF290 .H37
• Singular's illustrated dictionary of audiology RF290 .M464 1999

Library Catalog (http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/babel.cgi?dokma=http://umlibr.library.umass.edu/) Books and other library materials held at the UMass Amherst Libraries, including electronic resources. If you do not find the item you want, check the Four College Catalog (http://fclibr.library.umass.edu/). You may request an item that is checked out (as long as the patron has had it for three weeks) with the Request Item button. Type in your name and library barcode, found next to Libr: on your student ID card. Write down the call number and check the Pink Sheet to see what floor contains items with that call number range

Sample subject headings: Aphasia; Aphasic Children; Autism; Cochlear Implants; Communication Devices for the Disabled; Communicative Disorders; Communicative Disorders in Children; Deaf; Deaf Education; Hearing Disorders; Language Disorders; Speech Disorders

 Sample keywords: autism and diagnosis; speech language pathology etc.

•  The Pink Sheet is the Floor Directory to the W.E.B. Du Bois Library Building.Check the pink sheet for the floor that corresponds to your call number. Example: R-RC books are on the 23^rd floor; RD-RZ are on the 24^th floor; L is on the 20^th floor

     A. Print Journal Abstracts in the Library - ask at the reference desk for assistance.

• Child Development Abstracts Ref HQ750.A1C47
• Exceptional Child Education Resources Ref Z5814.C52E9

• CINAHLa nursing and allied health database
• ComAbstracts(abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field)
• Expanded Academic Index ASAP (http://www.library.umass.edu/research/html/asap.html), 1980- Articles in 1500+ scholarly journals and general-interest magazines in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences. About 50% full text. Use the limit feature to restrict the search to articles in refereed journals or in a particular journal. (Search Tip: Use a "*" for root endings.)
• ERIC (education research articles and documents). This database contains citations and abstracts to articles.
• Health Reference Center (50% of the articles are full text. E-mail option is available.)
• Infotrac (http://www.library.umass.edu/research/html/infotrak.htm)  A group of periodical indexes for scholarly and popular subjects, with many articles in full-text.
• JSTOR (http://www.library.umass.edu/research/html/jstor.html) JSTOR is a full-text online collection of about 160 core scholarly journals from their first issues to between two and five years prior to the present. The journals included are listed in and linked from the UMass Library Catalog. (Search Tips: You must choose a group of journals by subject to search. In advanced search, search elements must be in quotation marks. Use a "+" for simple plurals.)
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (http://www.library.umass.edu/research/html/lexus.html) Full-text news, business, legal, medical, and reference articles. Includes U.S. and foreign newspapers, trade publications, newsletters, news wires, radio/TV news transcripts, company financial reports, polls and surveys, state and country profiles, state and federal laws, and court decisions. (Search Tip: Use a "!" for root endings.)
• Lingusitics Abstracts Online
• Medline (medical research journals) This database contains citations and abstracts to articles.
• PsycInfo (psychology database). This database contains citations and abstracts to articles and chapters in books.
• Sociological Abstracts (sociology related research articles) This database contains citations and abstracts to articles and chapters in books.
[You must have a UMass Access account (http://www.oit.umass.edu/accounts/) from the Office of Information Technologies to access our online resources remotely. This account costs $30 per semester and may be activated by visiting the OIT Help Desk (http://www.oit.umass.edu/hds/hd/) in A107-9 Lederle Graduate Research Center (413-545-9400). If accessing a database from off-campus, click on the database link from the Library's Databases by Title list (http://www.library.umass.edu/research/bytitletxt.html) and enter your OIT username and password when prompted.

Citizens may access some databases through the Western Massachusetts Regional Library System (WMRLS) by entering the barcode from their public library card:List of databases and access instructions (http://www.wmrls.org/services/HomeAccess.html).]

• Once you find a citation to a journal you want to look at write down the whole citation; i.e. Author, Title of Article, Journal Title, Volume Number, Date, Pages.
• Go back to the Library Catalog (http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/babel.cgi?dokma=http://umlibr.library.umass.edu) and click Journal Title. Type the name of the journal. If the library owns the journal write down the call number (usually begins with a per and then the rest of the call number.
• Journals from 1995 to the present should be on the second floor.
• Journals before 1995 will be shelved on the book floors. See Pink Sheet

• Communication Disorders
• Department of Communication Disorders at UMASS  http://www.umass.edu/sphhs/comdis
• Communication Disorders.net http://www.communicationdisorders.net/middle.htm
• Family Village Communication Disorders http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/lib_comd.htm
• Links to Professional and Student Organizations http://www.umass.edu/sphhs/comdis/links.html
• Medline Plus Speech and Communication Disorders http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/speechcommunicationdisorders.html
• Net connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster2/welcome.html
• Office of Special Education Communication Disorders--  http://teach.virginia.edu/go/cise/ose/categories/cd.html
• Speech Pathology and Audiology
• Hardin MD http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/speech.html
• Stuttering
• The National Center for Stuttering  http://www.stuttering.com
• National Stutterng Association http://www.nsastutter.org
• The Stuttering Foundation of America http://www.stuttersfa.org
• Stuttering Science and Therapy Website http://www.casafuturatech.com

• The Pink Sheet is the Floor Directory to the W.E.B. Du Bois Library Building.
• The UMass Access Account described above also entitles you to use the OIT/PCCO computer labs (http://www-pcco.oit.umass.edu/utilities/labhours.asp) on campus and on the 7th and 16th floors and in the Calipari Room of the Library. These labs offer free printing and Microsoft Office software (http://www-pcco.oit.umass.edu/utilities/software.asp).
• Copying anywhere in the Library and Printing from the computers on the Main Level are paid for with the UCard (student ID card) with an account. Accounts are set up in the Franklin Dining Hall ID card office or at the UCard web page (http://www.umass.edu/ucard/). If you have an active account, you may add money (bills) to it at the black machine near the copiers and printers in the Reference Area of the Main Level. Guest UCards are available from the same machine for $1 plus whatever money you put on the card. Copies cost 10 cents while print-outs cost 15 cents per page. Some copy machines take change and bills, but the printers only operate from the UCard or Guest UCard.
• If you have to retrieve a journal article from a printed journal owned by the library, obtain the call number with a Journal Title search (http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/babel.cgi?dokma=http://umlibr.library.umass.edu/search/j) in our Library Catalog. Write down the volume, issue, date, and page numbers along with the title and call number for the journal. If you need an issue that was published in 1995 or more recently, it will be located on the 2nd floor of the library. An issue from the past year will be on the Current Periodicals side of the floor in the loose issues (by call number). Older issues will be on the Bound Side in the big volumes (again by call number). Issues from before 1995 are shelved with the books with that call number on the correct floor according to the Pink Sheet.

 

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