Deaf Research Guide: How to Get Started

Here are some suggestions about where to begin researching deaf topics. There is no single comprehensive online source of deaf information. If you are doing in-depth research, you may have to search in several places. For help, contact us.

You may find practical tips for researching topics such as Deaf culture, cochlear implants, and children of deaf adults in one of our Research Guides (coming soon). You may also browse the answers to our Frequently Asked Questions.

For broader topics we recommend the following databases. Access to most is limited to current Gallaudet students, faculty, and staff members. (Researchers who are not affiliated with Gallaudet may have access to some of these databases through their own libraries.)

Databases that are accessible to anyone are marked with an * or give the URL for the public sites.

Books, videorecordings, and journals owned by the Library

• ALADIN Catalog *

Journal articles and dissertations

• Need to find an article quickly? Try these multi-subject databases:
  0. ProQuest Research Library
  0. Ebscohost: Academic Search Premier
• Audiology
  0. Biology Journals
  0. CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
  0. ComDisDome - Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome
  0. PubMed (Medline) *
  0. Dissertations & Theses
• Biographies of deaf people
  0. Gallaudet University Library Guide to Deaf Biographies *
• Counseling, psychology, social work with deaf people
  0. PsycINFO
  0. PsycARTICLES
  0. Social Work Abstracts
  0. Dissertation & Theses
• Deaf community perspective on many topics
  0. Gallaudet University Library Index to Deaf Periodicals *
• Deaf culture and history
  0. Gallaudet University Library Guide to Deaf Biographies *
  0. Gallaudet University Library Index to Deaf Periodicals *
  0. The Silent Worker *
• Deaf education
  0. Education Complete
  0. ERIC (accessible to the public at http://www.eric.ed.gov/)
  0. Dissertation & Theses
• Sign language
  0. ComDisDome - Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome
  0. Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
  0. Dissertation & Theses