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HED487: Child
Abuse & Neglect Research Guide
Librarian: Elin O'Hara
Phone: 564-5187
Email: oharaea@plattsburgh.edu
IM: PSUIRef @ aol
Office: Feinberg Library 247
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Finding Books
The Feinberg
Library Catalog can lead you to books on your topic! Some useful subject searches include child abuse, family violence,
victims of family violence, child abuse -- prevention, child abuse --
investigation -- united states, child abuse -- psychological aspects.
If our library doesn't have what you want, you can search
a worldwide selection of libraries using
WorldCat
Our new
ILLiad
system lets you borrow anything you find there. Your request is
delivered to you here for free!
Finding Journal Articles Try
these databases to find articles on
child abuse. You can also click the By
subject link on the library homepage and click on Education OR Social Work OR
Human Development & Family Relations OR Psychology OR Sociology. Major Subject Databases:
Criminal
Justice Abstracts
SOCIndex with Full Text
Provides comprehensive full-text
access to journal articles covering all aspects of sociology and
related fields. Coverage includes criminal justice, gender studies,
ethnic & racial studies, family studies, social work and substance
abuse. Indexing included for books and conference papers. Coverage
is from 1895 to present.
Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information
especially for professional educators, professional librarians and
education researchers.
Education Research Complete
Full text database covering scholarly research and information relating
to all areas of education. Includes all levels of education from early
childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as
multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum
instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related
social issues.
ERIC
Comprehensive index to education topics.
PsycARTICLES
Provides full-text access to publications of the
American Psychological Association (APA), including more than 50
peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books. Full-text
of journals is from 1985 to present; full-text of book chapters is from
2000-2002. Journals and book chapters are indexed and abstracted in
PsycINFO.
PsycINFO
The premier abstracting service for psychology journals, covers from
1872 to present. TIPS: Examine the Descriptors on the right of the
search results. Use the References at the end of each record to
find additional sources.
Useful General Full-Text Databases:
ProQuest
Research Library
Academic
Source Premier
Getting To Online Journal Content:
Journals AtoZ --
online directory of journals with full-text available.
How
To Guide
Finding Statistics
Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.
Top Web Resources for HED
Clusty
Librarians' Internet Index Evaluating
Web Sites
Hint: Think A-A-O-C-C!
This page created
by: Elin O'Hara
Last Updated:
February 24, 2009 | 
