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Below are a few frequently used sources for the study of education. Interdisciplinary indexes such as Expanded Academic ASAP, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Social Sciences Index also cover education. These can be found in the research guide to General Social Sciences. See also the research guides to Education and to Psychology. Please consult with a reference librarian for help with many sources in your topic. Internet resources require a Tufts I.D. number for off-campus access (authorized users statement). |
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Subject specific reference materials can help you to gain broad-based knowledge of your field through vocabulary, factual information, additional references, and bibliographies. Some suggested print sources:
Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education
Encyclopedia of Special Education
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Doing a subject search in the catalog allows you to retrieve specific types of sources. For example:
Child Development - Encyclopedias
Developmental Disabilities - Dictionaries
In addition, the following electronic resource provides valuable information:
Mental
Measurements Yearbook (How
to search)
A guide to standardized psychological and educational tests. Includes
references to reviews, information about the tests, and how to
obtain them.
You can search for books about child development in the library catalog in several ways:
Type in words that describe your topic, for example:
If you know the Library of Congress subject heading used to describe your area of research, you can search for a particular subject. If you don’t know the Library of Congress Subject Headings, speak to a librarian for help. Some examples of subject searches are:
The range of topics covered by child development is broad. Books on psychology can be found under the call number range BF1-990; books on psychiatry can be found under the call number range RC435-571. Books on education can be found under the call number range L7-LT501. Books on the sociology of children and adolescents can be found under the call number range HQ767.8-HQ799.2. For help in browsing the collection, consult with one of the reference librarians.
To locate books in other Boston Library Consortium libraries and request them, use the Boston Library Consortium Catalogs. To locate books in many libraries throughout the world, use WorldCat.
For more information on searching article indexes, see our Database Searching Tips page (also available in PDF).
Child
Development Abstracts and Bibliography 1927-
Print index to books and journals. Includes over 2,000 abstracts
and references annually.
Contemporary
Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 1956-
Includes critical reviews of books and films in all fields of
psychology. Print.
Current
Contents Connect 2001-
A current awareness database with a multidisciplinary focus,
covering over 8,000 of the world's scholarly journals grouped
into the following broad disciplinary areas: Agriculture, Biology, &
Environmental Sciences; Art & Humanities; Clinical Medicine;
Engineering, Computing & Technology; Life Sciences; Physical,
Chemical & Earth Sciences; Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Also included is access to ISI Current Web Contents.
Education
Abstracts 1983-
Index to more than 450 education journals. Includes abstracts
from 1994.
Education
Index. H.W. Wilson, 1929-2001
Print equivalent of Education Abstracts, with coverage from 1929.
Educator�s Reference Complete
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily.
ERIC
(How
to search) 1966-
This major education index includes citations and abstracts to
journals, books, and documents. Includes material in child psychology.
Tisch Library subscribes to ERIC documents on microfiche from
1975 to the present and subscribes to ERIC documents electronically
from 1996 to the present.
Exceptional
Child Education Resources 1985-
Print index provides indexing and abstracts to resources in special
education and gifted education.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
The IBSS has more than two million references to articles and books going back to 1951 in the social sciences. It is produced by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts 1967-2001
Print index provides abstracts to over 1,500 journals and reports,
including foreign material.
Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstracts (How
to search) 1973-
The database covers all aspects of the study of language including
phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete
coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including
descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical
linguistics.
MEDLINE.
Ovid, 1966- Old
Medline, 1951-1965.
Worldwide coverage of the biomedical literature.
Psychological
Abstracts 1927-2000
The most comprehensive print index to the literature of psychology.
Indexes and abstracts more than 1,200 English-language journals,
reports and books.
PsycINFO
1872-
PsycInfo indexes the professional and academic literature in psychology
and related disciplines, covering dissertations and over 1300
journals in more than 30 languages as well as book chapters and
books in English. Over 50,000 references are added annually.
Electronic journals
Periodicals held by Tufts are listed in the catalog. Holdings in all formats are unified in one record, and most entries for journals held in digital format contain a hyperlink to the source; searches in the catalog enable one to follow these links directly. A supplementary list of electronic journals is on the Tisch homepage under Electronic Journals. For an example of a catalog search for a journal, set the catalog’s Type of Search to "Journal Title," and type in Annual Review of Psychology.
Many child development journals held in digital format are parts of Project Muse, JSTOR, Science Direct, Blackwell-Synergy or Wiley Interscience. Journals published by the American Psychological Association are available through Ovid. Although these databases include search engines for the journals they contain, the indexes listed above are the most comprehensive and authoritative sources for the literature of the discipline, and frequently link directly to the journal article itself.
PsychNET (American Psychological Association)
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
Research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making. Includes datasets, statistics, instruments and much more.
Children's Literature Web Guide
National Center for Education Statistics
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA)
Tufts University Child Development Department
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