A USE STUDY OF SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY PERIODICALS AT ILLINOISSTATE-UNIVERSITY

No core list of periodicals exists for speech pathology and audiology. Faced with the prospect of having to cancel periodicals for all subje cts, the science librarians at Illinois State University decided to de termine which science periodicals were used most heavily. A one-year s tudy of science periodical reshelving and interlibrary loan requests y ielded ranked lists of periodicals important to speech pathology and a udiology faculty and students at Illinois State University. The three most heavily used journals were the Journal of Speech and Hearing Rese arch, ASHA, and Topics in Language Disorders. Most of the periodicals on the lists were indexed by either MEDLINE or UnCover, or by both. Wh ile the lists of journals developed in the study are not sufficient to serve as true core lists, they should be useful to libraries supporti ng comparable programs in speech pathology and audiology.