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Re: Help! Best Research Data Bases for Stuttering

From: Nan Ratner
Date: 10/4/03
Time: 12:31:18 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.252.163

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Hi Gunars, good to hear from you. If the library at your University offers EBSCO host, try that - it is a mega-vendor that offers multiple data bases for simultaneous searching. If you go to the option "select databases" it will offer you as many as 25-30, including many in psychology, medicine and the social sciences. You may get duplicates when you search, but that is better than missing something. I find that it is important to use metacharacters, such as stutter* to prevent the system from missing the difference between stutter, stutterer(s), stuttering, etc., and I also search fluency, *fluency to get related research that might not be on stuttering, but relevant. I also find that we miss much if we put "stuttering" in every search. For instance, simply searching "speech production" brings up new research and models that we might want to extend to stuttering, but haven't gotten there yet. As an example, a current doctoral student working on the genetics of stuttering and I were interested that an admittedly huge yield on the term "behavioral genetics" brought up work we think could be interesting to pursue, such as recently found markers for anxiety, fear conditioning, and novelty seeking/avoidance, which might (OK, it's a long shot maybe) be as relevant to stuttering as work done on the pedigrees of families in which stuttering seems frequent, or related work looking in the region of the new genes linked to language and articulation ability ... have fun! And let me know what you decide to do for that thesis coming up!


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