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Evaluating Resources
(from Milner Library at Illinois State U.) 

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Understanding Call Numbers

Plagiarism:  How to Avoid It (from Indiana University at Bloomington)

Plagiarism? It's Your Call  (from Western Michigan University)

 

COURSE RELATED RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

Course Name:  HDF211 -- Child Development
Course Instructor: Jacqueline Oertel
Session Librarian: Tim Hartnett
Session Date: September 3, 2009
 

FINDING INFORMATION ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT
 

BOOKS (for detail and analysis)

Within Feinberg Library:   PlattCat   ("Search Feinberg" link on the Library Homepage)      

Beyond Feinberg Library:  WorldCat   [ about ]    ("Search Worldwide" link on the Library Homepage)   


SCHOLARLY ARTICLES 

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 [about]
Abstracts over 1,800 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally since 1840.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection  
Full-text articles and books on counseling, child & adolescent psychology and other areas of psychology.

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.

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.
 

SCHOLARLY & GENERAL ARTICLES 

Academic Search Premier   [about]   
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

ProQuest Periodical Abstracts Research II
Search Periodical Abstracts II for information from over 1800 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences.

Wilson Omnifile Full Text Select
Full-text access to hundreds of magazines and journals. Covers from 1994 to present.
 

The following menus provide links to many other databases available through Feinberg Library.

Databases A-Z ( by Database Name)
Databases by Subject  (by Database Scope)

Also Journals A-Z is a directory of all journals available online through Feinberg Library.

WEB DIRECTORIES & SEARCH ENGINES

Google -- "Google's index, comprised of more than 1 billion URLs, is the first of its kind and represents the most comprehensive collection of the most useful web pages on the Internet."  TIP:  Use the Advanced Search and/or Google Scholar and Google News (under the More >> link) options.

Clusty -- "automatically organizes search or database query results into meaningful hierarchical folders completely on-the-fly, out-of-the-box."

This page was prepared by librarian Tim Hartnett and last updated on 09/07/2009.