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Contents of this page

• Search Engines
• Alternative PubMed/Medline Search Interfaces
• Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Reference Web Sites
• Brain and Brain Health Web Sites and News Feeds
• Hearing Disorders Web Sites and News Feeds
• Speech-Language Disorders Web Sites and News Feeds
• Tests and Assessment Instruments

Specialized Search Engines and Search Engine Information

• All Search Engines Check here for exhaustive lists of search- and meta-search engines as well as tips for constructing successful strategies.
• BNet Articles An archive of published journal articles, including ones in healthcare. It can be browsed by title or searches by topic or keywords.
• Citeline - medical industry and health information.
• Complete Planet - searches invisible or deep web sites
• DeepDyve - A deep web search engine
• Infomine - over 20,000 sites selected by librarians as "significant, core and/or reference level resources of a scholarly or educational nature on the Internet."
• Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Index - a complete, searchable index of the journal (published by the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists), with abstracts
• Librarian's Index to the Internet - A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 11,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users.
• Mamma Deep Web Health Search Engine  A metasearch engine of health-related websites including some that are deep web.  This site is a beta site of the Mamma search engine
• Scirus - a search engine for scientific information.
• Scopus - The self-proclaimed "world's largest database of scientific literature."  Scopus indexes over 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from "scientific, technical, medical and social science literature." Coverage is from 1966 to the present with daily updates.
• Search Engine Watch - check here for exhaustive lists of search- and meta-search engines as well as tips for constructing successful strategies.  Site also includes a reviews, ratings and tests section.
• Search Engine Showdown - Billed as a "user's guide to web searching" this site contains news features, helpful comparative charts, analysis, and reviews of various search engines.
• Search Engines and Directories A to Z - Compiled by  About.com, this list includes "internet search engine and web directory news, information, commentary, opinions, profiles, howto's, and analyses."
• USA.gov - A US government information gateway.  Also try searching government information pages in Google - Uncle Sam

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Alternative PubMed/Medline Search Interfaces

PubMed is designed to be used by both expert and non-expert searchers. The interface, however, has some limitations for some specialist users. Over the years several alternative interfaces have been developed that enable users to do things like cluster their search results or improve on the PubMed interface itself. Below are listed a few of these interfaces.

• Arrowsmith - Arrowsmith actually offers several tools to aid searching, including clustering articles by the same author, comparing items or concepts that may be present in common between two distinct sets of articles, summarize, drill-down and browse the results of a PubMed query, or search for the meaning of abbreviations in Medline.
• askMEDLINE - Developed by the National Library of Medicine, askMEDLINE allows for free-text, natural language searching of Medline and PubMed. A MeSH speller may also be used as an aid to finding citations.
• BabelMeSH - a multilanguage search interface which allows users to search PubMed/Medline using medical terms or phrases in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Protuguese, Russin, Spanish, or Swedish.
• ClusterMed - uses the Vivisimo search engine to display results in clusters, which can be based on one of several options. Limited to 100 results unless a subscription is purchased.
• eTBlast - A search engine developed by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, it builds a search strategy from an entire paragraph supplied by the searcher. It then returns citations that are similar to it. The iterate feature allows for the searching over several good papers to narrow the focus.
• GoPubMed - self-defined as an ontology-based literature search," GoPubMed classifies the results of a PubMed search according to Gene Ontology or Medical Subject Headings and sorts them into the categories Who, What, Where, or When.
• LigerCat - "LigerCat is a search tool for NCBI's PubMed that uses tag clouds to provide an overview of important concepts and trends. LigerCat aggregates multiple articles in PubMed, summing their MeSH descriptors and presenting them in a cloud, weighted by frequency" (from the site's Contact page). Once a cloud is created, one or more of the MeSH terms can be selected for a realtime search of PubMed.
• SLIM - Standing for SLider Interface for Medline/PubMed searches, SLIM was developed by the National Library of Medicine and allows users to set search parameters by using sliders. The number of results for a search may be previewed before the actual search is run.

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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Video Tutorials, and other Reference Web Sites

• AgeLine Database - "AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences. It covers aging-related issues for professionals in aging services, health, business, law, and mental health. AgeLine also includes selected consumer content."Atlas of the Body: Anatomy and Medical Illustrations - This site is sponsored by the American Medical Association and includes sections on the brain, ear, respiratory system, muscles, nervous system, and skull.
• Anatomy Atlases - Collection of atlases covering general anatomy, anatomy in cross-section, microscopic anatomy, anatomy of first aid, and human anatomic variation. The site is "intended primarily for use by Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, or Attending Physicians studying anatomy." Written by anatomy professors.
• Atlas of the Body: Anatomy and Medical Illustrations - This site is sponsored by the American Medical Association and includes sections on the brain, ear, respiratory system, muscles, nervous system, and skull.
• Autism spectrum disorders: A resource for ASD information on the Web - A webliography, produced by Corey Seeman of the University of Toledo and published in the American Library Association's C&RL Newsletter.  The page includes sections on basics and general information sites, government sites, scientific and medical issues, and organizations.
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - "The goal of this web site is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practice and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines."  The site is administered by faculty in the Department of Medicine at the Toronto General Hospital. 
• Copyright Primer - Prepared by the University of Maryland University College the primer is "an introduction to issues concerning copyright ownership and use of information. The interactive tutorial overviews the underlying principles behind copyright in the United States, outlines the requirements for copyright protection as well as discusses the parameters of use and access of copyrighted material."
• Deciphering Medspeak  - Hosted by the Medical Library Association, this site offers concise definitions of common medical terms as well as prefixes and suffixes. 
• Formulating Your Questions Using PICO - Video tutorial produced by the Yale School of Medicine on using a PICO question to find evidence-based practice materials.
• Gray's Anatomy Online  - This edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries.
• Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages - Freely accessible multi-platform statistical software. With links to pages around the world, the table of contents includes access to calculators, plotters, random number generators, and programs that perform literally hundreds of calculations. The site also includes links to online statistics books, tutorials, and downloadable software.
• Journal of Medical Internet Research - Founded in 1999, the journal "was the first (and remains the only) international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and other eHealth technologies."  All issues are full text and open access.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• J. P. Harrington Database Project - "The goal of the J. P. Harrington Project is to increase access to the linguistic and ethnographic notes on American Indian languages collected by J. P. Harrington during the first half of the twentieth century. The men and women he interviewed were often among the last remaining speakers of their languages. His notes are a treasure of indigenous knowledge that otherwise would have been lost. Well over half of an estimated 500,000 pages are on California Indian languages."
• Lexicon of Linguistics - Created and maintained by faculty members at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, this web site provides easily accessed authoritative definitions for thousands of technical terms in the field of linguistics.
• Medical Images and Illustrations - Maintained by the Karolinska Institutet Library (the largest medical school in Sweden), this site includes a links page for images about the eye, ear, and airway system.
• Medical Reference for Non-Medical Librarians - Maintained by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, the site provides several pages of links to medical resources. Included are pages on diagnostic tests, dictionaries, directories of medical web sites, diagnosis, drugs, evaluating medical web sites, and evidence-based medicine.
• Medical Resources by Specialty - Maintained by MedMark, a medical bookmarks service, the Otorhinolaryngology page yields and extensive list of web sites categorized by Associations/Societies, Centers/Institutes/Labs, Departments/Divisions, Education/Training, For Consumers, General, Guides/Guidelines, Hospitals/Clinics, Images/Atlases, Information Sources, Journals/News/Publications, Lists of Resources, Other Organizations, and Programs/Projects.
• Medical Shorthand - Hosted by the Medical Library Association, this site offers quick definitions for medical shorthand used in charts and prescriptions. 
• Medical Subject Headings - Video tutorial produced by the Yale School of Medicine on how to use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to create better searches in PubMed.
• MedTerms Medical Dictionary - This dictionary is "the medical reference for MedicineNet.com, containing easy-to-understand explanations of over 16,000 medical terms. This online medical dictionary provides quick access to hard-to-spell and often misspelled medical definitions through an extensive alphabetical listing." The site is designed with "consumers and patients in mind."
• Merck Manual  - "This book is used by more medical professionals worldwide than any other general medical textbook and has been continuously published longer than any other English language general medical textbook."
• Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary - An extensive medical dictionary courtesy of InteliHealth.
• NHS Evidence - Produced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence of the NHS, this site aims "to enable access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who makes decisions about treatments or the use of resources."
• Online Etymology Dictionary - "Find the origin of everyday words in this well-researched compilation. Browsable alphabetically and searchable. Includes list of abbreviations of language periods and parts of speech as well as key reference sources" (Librarians' Index to the Internet).
• Online Mendalian Inheritance in Man - A catalog of human genes and genetic disorders.  The web site is designed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
• REHABDATA - Produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center, "the database covers physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues related to people with disabilities.  Document types indexed include research reports, books, journal articles, and audiovisual materials" (MLA News, June/July 2003).
• SAGE Crossroads - A self-proclaimed "public forum on the ethics, politics, and economics of aging research and longevity science." This is a joint project of the Alliance for Aging Research, the American Academy of Science, and he Science of Aging Knowledge Environment.  Along with providing the latest "news and views" on aging research, the site also hosts live webcast debates between experts on a particular topic, such as Longevity and Genetics."   Navigation of the site is not easy; a better site-search engine and help screens would help, but it will pay dividends to the determined visitor.
• Separated by a Common Language - A blog filled with "observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK."
• Treatment Efficacy Bibliography - A tool compiled by ASHA "to assist members interested in obtaining information on the efficacy of various treatments in audiology and speech-language pathology. The citations are from ten technical papers written by experts in the field through 1996."
• Virtual Human Server - Created by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, this site offers not only the ability to navigate through axial, sagital, and coronal slices of both male and female datasets, but to incorporate those slices into 3D models and animation.
• Whole Brain Atlas - A resource for central nervous system imaging which integrates clinical information with magnetic resonance (MR), x-ray computed tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine images. The Atlas project is made possible in part by the Departments of Radiology and Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, the Countway Library of Medicine, and the American Academy of Neurology.
• Your Dictionary.com - YDC is a portal for the language enthusiast. Based on a former scholarly Web site, A Web of Dictionaries, it offers FAQs about language (how many words are there in English, what is the longest word in English, and the like), word games, a collection of scholarly treatises, a list of endangered languages, reference works such as Bartlett's Quotations, simplified grammars of various languages, and much more. However, the main service is to provide access to dictionaries in many languages, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed., 1999), and many other English-language dictionaries, most of them completely out-of-date or highly specialized. Some dictionaries and other reference resources are only for sale or require subscription (such as OED). Multilingual dictionaries allow one to translate short items; a commercial translation service, run by YDC, offers extensive work for a fee.

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Brain and Brain Health Web Sites and News Feeds

• Alzheimer's Disease - from MedicineNet
• Alzheimer's News - from Medical News Today
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - from MedicineNet
• Autism - from MedicineNet
• Autism News - from Medical News Today
• Birth Defects - from MedicineNet
• BMC Genetics - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• BMC Neurology - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• BMC Neuroscience - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• Brain Atlas - Maintained by the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
• BrainLine - A site dedicated to "preventing, treating, and living with traumatic brain injury (TBI)." It is co-created and managed by PBS station WETA in Washington and the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. The site features video webcasts, recent research, personal stories, and articles on living with, treating and preventing traumatic brain injuries. There are sections devoted to TBI sufferers, their family and friends, and professionals working in the area.
• Brain Tumor - from MedicineNet
• Cognitive Daily - "reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in the field.  The research isn't dumbed down, but it's explained in language that everyone can understand, with clear illustrations and references to the original research" (from the web site).  Categories include perception, language, memory and aging.
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - from MedicineNet
• Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• Current Treatment Options in Neurology - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• Dementia - from MedicineNet
• Dyslexia - from MedicineNet
• Dyslexia News - from Medical News Today
• FeedNavigator - A massive site maintained by the National Library of Health Sciences at the University of Helsinki. It describes itself as "the most efficient current awareness tool for health articles." FeedNavigator covers news feeds from the medical literature as well as the Blogosphere. You can look at the entries in any one of several broad categories, or construct your own search. The results can be read online, sent to you via rss feed, or stored in your "My Articles" area (after free registration). You can also store the news feeds from any particular journal indexed in the database and read them in the "My Feed" area.
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - from MedicineNet
• Genetic Disease - from MedicineNet
• Genetics Home Reference - "the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes responsible for those conditions."
• Genetics News - from Medical News Today
• GNIF Brain Blogger - "The latest exciting news in neuroscience, psychiatry, and neurology from multidimensional -- biological, psychological, and sociological -- perspectives."
• Human Brain Atlas - Sponsored by Michigan State University's Brain Biodiversity Bank, the atlas presents "an electronic anatomically labeled three-dimensional atlas of the human brain created from MRI images. In conjunction we present anatomically labeled stained sections that correspond to the three-dimensional MRI images. In this way we utilize the advantages of both methods." The atlas can be viewed from the coronal, horizontal, and sagittal planes. Included is an atlas of the brainstem, Quicktime movies of every section, as well as a screensaver.
• Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour - "This tour explains how the brain works and how Alzheimer's affects it." Rolling a mouse over colored text highlights the affected areas of the brain. Includes related links. From the Alzheimer's Association.
• Latest Medical News Headlines - from Medical News Today
• Mind & Brain - from ScienceDaily
• Nature Neuroscience Gateway - a free online resource for cutting-edge neuroscience and genomics research. This site is a joint project of the Nature Publishing Group and the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Plans are to update the gateway twice a month.
• Neuroguide - "A searchable and browsable index of neuroscience resources available on the Internet: Neurobiology, neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, psychology, cognitive science sites and information on human neurological diseases."
• Neurology and Neuroscience News - from Medical News Today
• Neurology Headlines - from WebMD Medscape
• Neurotransmitter.net - A massive site (260,000+ pages) created and developed by Shawn Thomas a current library science student at the University of Illinois.  It has been well-received by such journals as Science Magazine (June 10, 2005), Molecular Interventions (December 2004), and Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development (September 2004). 
• Parkinson's Disease News - from Medical News Today
• Psychology and Psychiatry News - from Medical News Today
• Rehabilitation News - from Medical News Today
• Seniors and Aging News - from Medical News Today
• Senior Health - from MedicineNet
• Stroke News - from Medical News Today

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Hearing Disorders Web Sites and News Feeds

• All Hearing Aids - A "research center" of the UK's All info network.  Provides news and research reports on hearing aids.
• American Academy of Audiology - Official site of the academy.
• American Otological Society - Official site of the society.
• American Sign Language Browser - The American Sign Language (ASL) Browser indexes video clips that demonstrate thousands of ASL signs. Written instructions explaining how to make each sign accompany every video clip.
• American Sign Language University - ASL University is an online curriculum resource for American Sign Language students, instructors, interpreters, and parents of deaf children.
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - Official ASHA web site.
• ASL Spelling Study: The Alphabet - A site designed to aid the recognition and production of finger spelling.
• Assistive Devices - A page from MEDLINEplus that includes information on the latest news, coping, research, directories, and organizations related to assistive devices and technology. The page also gives links for specific age-group categories (children, teens, and adults).
• Audiology Forum: Video Otoscopy - site contains slides and movies of all aspects of otoscopy.
• Audiology Info - A searchable index of web sites related to audiology, hearing loss, hearing aids, and the ear.
• Audiology Resources - Billed as an international "information resource for all who are interested in audiology," though geared toward professionals in the field. It includes details of audiology related research groups and specialist centers, information on professional organizations, listings of audiology events, meetings and courses, and a list of audiology journals (publications). There is also a news section, an online forum, and even an audiology themed game. Ownership of the site is not stated.
• AUDnews.com - A site managed by audiologists and SLPs "dedicated to keeping Audiologists informed about their profession." Check out the list of RSS feeds to subscribe to news feeds generated by the site.
• Australia and New Zealand Journal of Audiology - "the official journal of the Audiological Society of Australia and the New Zealand Audiological Society. The journal showcases scientific articles offering original contributions to the field of audiology in such diverse areas as clinical practice, cochlear implants, psychoacoustics, speech perception, paediatric assessment and habilitation."
• BMC Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• BMC Genetics - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• BMC Geriatrics - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• Birth Defects - from MedicineNet
• COMD News - a publication of the Callier Library. This biblioblog lists current research and news in communication disorders. Over 500 sources are scanned for the information included on the website.
• Deaf Resource Library - an online collection of reference material and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States; as well as deaf and hard of hearing related topics.
• Detecting Hearing Loss in Children - from MedicineNet
• Diseases, Disorders, and Related Topics - A links page published by the Karolinska Institute Library.  Searches can be done for specific diseases/conditions, broad general areas of medicine, or specific terms within the links pages themselves.  Time spent in the Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases section will pay huge dividends.
• Ear, Nose, and Throat News - from Medical News Today
• Ear Tubes - from MedicineNet
• Ear Wax - from MedicineNet
• ENT and Audiology Specialist Library - Maintained by the National Library for Health, this site "is a unique resource that aims to provide healthcare professionals with access to the best available evidence in ENT, audiology and thyroid disorders." It includes the Annual Evidence Update on Hearing Disorders, which presents "a concise summary of the latest emerging evidence on key topic areas, combined with expert commentaries and a list of current therapeutic uncertainties to highlight priorities for future research." You can also subscribe to an RSS feed
• ENT Videos and Photographs - Contains photos and videos of "Allergy, Ear Tubes, Tonsils, Larynx (Voice Box) Cancer and Much More."
• FeedNavigator - A massive site maintained by the National Library of Health Sciences at the University of Helsinki. It describes itself as "the most efficient current awareness tool for health articles." FeedNavigator covers news feeds from the medical literature as well as the Blogosphere. You can look at the entries in any one of several broad categories, or construct your own search. The results can be read online, sent to you via rss feed, or stored in your "My Articles" area (after free registration). You can also store the news feeds from any particular journal indexed in the database and read them in the "My Feed" area.
• Genetic Disease - from MedicineNet
• Genetics Home Reference - "the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes responsible for those conditions."
• Genetics News - from Medical News Today
• Hearing/Deafness News - from Medical News Today
• Hearing Disorders - A page from MedlinePlus that includes general overviews, anatomy and physiology, pictures and diagrams, clinical trials and research, diagnosis and symptoms, specific conditions and aspects, coping and treatment. There are also sections dealing specifically with children or senior citizens as well as one that contains links to pages in Spanish.
• HON Medhunt - A database of web sites maintained by the Health on the Net Foundation.  Searches are available by terms or phrases.  Limits on results can be made to types of page sponsors (hospitals, "support," or "events") and to geographic location or domain type.  Results are sorted by type of relationship to HON (those that are subscribers to the HON code, those that have been personally visited by a HON representative, and those that have been retrieved by a search bot).
• Information Resources on Human Communication Disorders - A web site maintained by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
• Intute: Health and Life Sciences ( Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health section) - A free online service that provides "access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists." It is produced by a consortium of seven universities in the UK as well as a host of partners. The Health and Life Sciences section was formerly known as BIOME.
• Jokes and Humor for Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists
• Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center Information on Deafness Page - "A centralized source of accurate, up-to-date, and objective information on topics dealing with deafness and hearing loss in the age group of 0-21."   Covers topics of interest to the general public, deaf and hard of hearing people, their families, and professionals who work with them.
• Latest Medical News Headlines - from Medical News Today
• Medical Technology News - from Wired.com
• MEDLINEplus - NOTE:  This is NOT Medline.  Use PubMed to search Medline.  MEDLINEplus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, nonprofit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.
• Meniere Disease - from MedicineNet
• Monster Job Search for "Audiologist" - A specific job search on Monster.com for "Audiologist."  You can also get the latest postings for this search by RSS feed. 
• National Electronic Library for Health - produced by the UK National Health Service, and attempts to provide health care professionals with medical information. Patient information is provided through the companion site NHS Direct Online, and the relationship between the two sites is similar to the Medline/MedlinePLUS sites in the US.
• National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center - This site is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the University of Texas Health Science Center.  It provides "information and resources in the area of newborn screening and genetics to benefit health professionals, the public health community, consumers and government officials" (from the web site).  Included are several links to genetics sites, as well as tables and policy statements about current screening practices in each state.
• Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences - A complete guide to resources on the Internet for those engaged in communication disorders and related sciences.
• NHS Direct Online - Companion site to the National Electronic Library for Health, NHS Direct Online is produced by the National Health Service of the UK and offers information at a level similar to Medline PLUS.  It offers an interactive self-help guide for those feeling ill as well as a searchable medical encyclopedia.
• NMAP (Nursing, Midwifery and Allied health Professions) - A gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources, aimed at students, consumers, researchers, academics and practitioners in the health and medical sciences. NMAP is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts coordinated at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library.
• Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and its Prevention - from MedicineNet
• Otitis Externa - from MedicineNet
• Otitis Media - from MedicineNet
• Pediatrics News - from Medical News Today
• Promenade 'Round the Cochlea - The aim of this site is to assist the teaching of the auditory system (its anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology) to students and practitioners in the fields of Otology, Otolaryngology, E.N.T., Audiology, Sensory physiology, and Neuroscience.  It is regularly updated.
• Rehabilitation News - from Medical News Today
• Seniors and Aging News - from Medical News Today
• Senior Health - from MedicineNet
• Tinnitus - from MedicineNet
• Topics in Neuroanatomy - Part of the Knowledge Weavers project, which is sponsored by the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah and is supported by the National Library of Medicine. The site includes brain atlases and online neuroanatomy instruction at the medical school level. Tutorials on the Auditory and Vestibular Systems, as well as other parts of the brain and spinal cord are included here.
• Vestibular Balance Disorders - from MedicineNet
• Virtual Tour of the Ear - Site maintained by Perry Hanavan at Augustana College.  It includes tours of hearing mechanism, disorders of hearing, audiologic rehabilitation, speech perception, and audiology.

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Speech-Language Disorders Web Sites and News Feeds

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - Official ASHA web site.
• Autism - from MedicineNet
• Birth Defects - from MedicineNet
• BMC Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• BMC Genetics - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• BMC Geriatrics - Web site for Biomed Central's e-journal.  Contents of current issue can also be accessed by a news feed.
• Changing Language - "The English language is vast, flexible, fascinating, frustrating, challenging, inspiring and endlessly changing." This site, which is produced by the British Library, explores the ways in which the English Language has developed over hundreds of years.
• Cleft Palate News - from Medical News Today
• COMD News - a publication of the Callier Library. This biblioblog lists current research and news in communication disorders. Over 500 sources are scanned for the information included on the website.
• Dialect Survey - The Dialect Survey uses a series of questions, including rhyming word pairs and vocabulary words, to explore words and sounds in the English language.  Includes maps showing the dominance of a particular dialect.
• English Accents and Dialects - Audio extracts from the British Library sound archive of an English dialects project conducted during the second half of the 20th century. 
• ENT Videos and Photographs - Contains photos and videos of "Allergy, Ear Tubes, Tonsils, Larynx (Voice Box) Cancer and Much More."
• Examination of the Larynx and Pharynx - Part of the New England Journal of Medicine "Videos in Clinical Medicine." Covered are such topics as the indications for laryngoscopy, the equipment used, mirror and flexible laryngoscopy.
• FeedNavigator - A massive site maintained by the National Library of Health Sciences at the University of Helsinki. It describes itself as "the most efficient current awareness tool for health articles." FeedNavigator covers news feeds from the medical literature as well as the Blogosphere. You can look at the entries in any one of several broad categories, or construct your own search. The results can be read online, sent to you via rss feed, or stored in your "My Articles" area (after free registration). You can also store the news feeds from any particular journal indexed in the database and read them in the "My Feed" area.
• Foreign Accent Syndrome Support - Maintained by William Katz's Speech Production Lab at The University of Texas at Dallas. The web site "is designed to provide support to those seeking  information about a rare speech disorder called foreign accent syndrome (FAS)."
• Genetic Disease - from MedicineNet.
• Genetics Home Reference - "the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes responsible for those conditions."
• Genetics News - from Medical News Today
• Hearing News - from MedicineNet.
• HON Medhunt - A database of web sites maintained by the Health on the Net Foundation.  Searches are available by terms or phrases.  Limits on results can be made to types of page sponsors (hospitals, "support," or "events") and to geographic location or domain type.  Results are sorted by type of relationship to HON (those that are subscribers to the HON code, those that have been personally visited by a HON representative, and those that have been retrieved by a search bot).
• Information Resources on Human Communication Disorders - A web site maintained by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
• Intute: Health and Life Sciences - A free online service that provides "access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists." It is produced by a consortium of seven universities in the UK as well as a host of partners. The Health and Life Sciences section of the database covers, among other topics, medicine, nursing, and allied health. The Health and Life Sciences section was formerly known as BIOME.
• Jokes and Humor for Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists
• Larynx Cancer - from MedicineNet
• Latest Medical News Headlines - from Medical News Today
• Medical Technology News - from Wired.com
• MEDLINEplus - NOTE:  This is NOT Medline.  Use PubMed to search Medline.  MEDLINEplus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, nonprofit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.
• Monster Job Search for "Speech Pathologist" - A specific job search on Monster.com for "Speech Pathologist ."  You can also get the latest postings for this search by RSS feed. 
• National Electronic Library for Health - produced by the UK National Health Service, and attempts to provide health care professionals with medical information. Patient information is provided through the companion site NHS Direct Online, and the relationship between the two sites is similar to the Medline/MedlinePLUS sites in the US.
• National Information Centre for Speech-language Therapy (NICeST) Library - Located at the UCL campus of The University of London, the Language & Speech Science Library at Chandler House serves both the teaching and research functions of the university as well as the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists. Of particular interest is the extensive Internet Resources for Speech & Language web page (the link is on the home page) which is arranged topically by subject.
• Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences - A complete guide to resources on the Internet for those engaged in communication disorders and related sciences.
• NHS Direct Online - Companion site to the National Electronic Library for Health, NHS Direct Online is produced by the National Health Service of the UK and offers information at a level similar to Medline PLUS.  It offers an interactive self-help guide for those feeling ill as well as a searchable medical encyclopedia.
• NMAP (Nursing, Midwifery and Allied health Professions) -A gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources, aimed at students, consumers, researchers, academics and practitioners in the health and medical sciences. NMAP is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts coordinated at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library.
• Pediatrics News - from Medical News Today
• Reflux Laryngitis - from MedicineNet
• Rehabilitation News - from Medical News Today
• Seniors and Aging News - from Medical News Today
• Senior Health - from MedicineNet
• SLP E-Community - A web site run by SLPs for SLPs. Free registration is required for access.  Includes an interactive forum for swapping ideas and techniques.
• SLPnews.com - A site managed by audiologists and SLPs "dedicated to keeping Speech-Language Pathologists informed about their profession." Check out the list of RSS feeds to subscribe to news feeds generated by the site.
• Sounds Familiar? - "The only English language web site of its kind. It features 72 recordings of regional accents and dialects from every corner of the UK, some recorded in the 1950s and some almost half a century later, in 1998-1999, making it possible for users to explore how spoken English varies regionally and how accents and dialects have changed over time."
• Speech Accent Archive - Developed at George Mason University, "the speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different english speakers. It allows users to compare the demographic and linguistic backgrounds of the speakers in order to determine which variables are key predictors of each accent. The speech accent archive demonstrates that accents are systematic rather than merely mistaken speech" (from the web site).
• Speech and Language Pathology - A blog self-described as "A community for Speech-Language Pathologists/Speech Pathologists, Speech Therapists (or whatever you're called in your area!), students, clients, parents of clients and any other interested people."
• Swallowing - from MedicineNet
• UTD Diagnostic Independent Study List - The latest, up-to-the-minute, official, proficiency list for use by Masters-level students in the UTD Communication Disorders program.
• Voice Disorders - A page from MedlinePlus that includes general overviews, anatomy and physiology, clinical trials and research, diagnosis and symptoms, specific conditions and aspects, rehabilitation and treatment. There are also links to other organizations as well as to pages in Spanish.
• Webcast of a Voice Box Reconstruction Procedure - Part of the ORLive archives, this surgery, a medialization laryngoplasty, "is used to restore the voice in patients who have lost all or most of their voice due to vocal cord paralysis or paresis (partial paralysis), cancer, intubation or trauma. The operation is done under local anesthesia with sedation. The patient remains awake because vocal-fold repositioning alters the voice, and therefore the surgeon must hear the voice to get the best result"  (from the introductory web page).  The procedure is viewable only with RealPlayer.

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Tests and Assessment Instruments

• Buros Institute of Mental Measurements - Includes a database of citations to test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook from the 9th ed. to the present.
• Glossary of Common Test Terms - Assembled from various published sources identified in the online reference list, and from original text written by the Directors of Test Development at Pearson Assessments.  Pearson Assessments provides it "as a service to anyone who has struggled to understand the complex terminology often found in assessment administration and scoring manuals."

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