This library guide last updated 1/18/2024
JAMA now available online (1998-present including Online First )
Lydia M. Olson Library is currently under renovation and is located on the ground & first floors of Gries Hall located here:
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Note that while space is extremely limited, staff are available to provide library services & assistance.
Please see the "When is Professor Mike Strahan Available?" tab on this guide for assistance schedule afternoons & evenings.
The library lobby (ground floor) has the Public Services desk (Reserves, Circulation, pick up materials), two public computers, scanner, & new books.
The first floor has printers, photocopier, and you may reserve a study room or use the Reading Room/Current Periodicals (Rm 110).
The physical collections are located in storage, and patrons must request retrieval through the OneSearch Library Catalog. Although physically browsing the shelves is not available, use the Virtual Browse feature in the library catalog entry (bottom):
Happy to answer your questions.
-- Professor Mike Strahan
A Dictionary of Audiology (2nd ed. 2016)
Dictionary of Communication Disorders (2005)
Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (2013)
Encyclopedia of Deafness and Hearing Disorders (2004) 1 person at a time
MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (2003)
Stedman's Medical Dictionary (2016)
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (2017)
NLM MedlinePlus Drugs, Herbs, & Supplements (current)
Click here to access the new expanded JoVE Education videos!
JoVE Education is collection of thousands of streaming videos illustrating key concepts, lab techniques/experiments, and demonstrations in a variety of disciplines primarily in the sciences & social sciences, but also humanities. Categories include Biology, Chemistry, Clinical Skills, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Physics, Psychology, and Statistics. The NMU Library subscription also includes JoVE Core video textbooks, JoVE Science Education, JoVE Lab Manual for Biology & Chemistry, JoVE Book (Chemistry), open educational resources, and additional videos provided through JoVE Research.
Google Videos - Familiar search interface to broad spectrum of videos appearing on teachertube, youtube, etc.
Teachertube - Peer-reviewed broad spectrum of patient- and profession-oriented information.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching) - Peer-reviewed online teaching & learning materials.
OneSearch (advanced search screen)
Use this link to access the advanced search screen, where users may indicate which fields to search (e.g., title, author, or subject) instead of everything. Also allows the searcher to set some limits (material type such as books or journals, language, and publication years) before running the search.
OneSearch (advanced search screen)
Use this link to access the advanced search screen, where users may indicate which fields to search (e.g., title, author, or subject) instead of everything. Also allows the searcher to set some limits (material type such as books or journals, language, and publication years) before running the search.
Start with national professional organizations
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Also consider these other health-related highly-authoritative web sites:
CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
WHO (World Health Organization)
See Library's APA guide for an examples of how to format reference entry for web pages authored by
Mayo Clinic Staff, CDC, and other organizations as authors.
Do not forget that the ASHA website includes journal articles. When referencing this type of material, do not use web page example, but instead use the APA style format for journal articles.
Recommendation: When using more than one aspect of a topic (e.g., Introduction, Causes, etc.), click on the "Print This Entire Topic" button on right, and reference that page, and use the year which appears on the bottom of original page.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2019). Childhood fluency disorders. Retrieved May 2, 2019, from
https://www.asha.org/PRPPrintTemplate.aspx?folderid=8589935336