1. LIBRARY CATALOG
  2. DATABASES
  3. JOURNAL FINDER
  4. SUBJECT GUIDES
  5. LIBRARY SERVICES

The University Libraries

SES 250: Survey of Learning and Behavioral Differences

Librarian:  Mary Krautter, mmkrautt@uncg.edu or 336-256-0274

Finding Books

Library Catalog – includes print, audio, and online books, videos, music recordings and other materials. There are a variety of subject headings for education related topics. NOTE:  especially in the area of disabilities, terms used as subject headings may seem outdated and often don’t reflect current terminology.

Keyword Searching – guide to choosing and using keywords to get the best material.

Accessing Journal Articles by Journal Name

Link to Journal Finder
Finding Individual Journal Articles Using "Journal Finder"

Click on the car icon to check whether other libraries own this title

Subject Databases to Locate Journal Articles

 For additional subject databases, go to The University Libraries home page, then click on Databases. Click on the starting letter of the database or click on a department name.


starERIC
The most widely used education database, ERIC (U.S. Department of Educational Resource Information Center) contains indexing and abstracts from thousands of research and technical reports (ED numbers, available online for newer and some older documents) and from more than 750 education and education-related journals (EJ numbers). Excellent for topics dealing with schools of all types and levels, parent-school relationships, counseling, vocational guidance, special education, higher education, and so on.  New issues of journals sometimes aren’t added quickly.  Coverage from the 1960s.

starEducation Full Text
Indexes over 400 education journals dating from 1984; about half of the journals include some full text. Covers many of the same journals as ERIC, but there are advantages and disadvantages of this database as compared to ERIC. Advantages: this database indexes most of the core education journals and many of them are full text. Disadvantages: subject headings are not as varied or specific as ERIC nor is the subject coverage as deep or varied so it can be hard to find the right terms to find articles on your topic.

starPsycINFO
Provides citations and abstracts for over 1900 journals written in over 25 languages, as well as book chapters, books, technical reports, and selected dissertations in psychology and related disciplines such as counseling, sociology, social work, medicine, nursing, and psychiatry. Covers such topics as behavioral assessment, community mental health, and casework with special populations.  Jackson Library owns or has access to many of the core, English-language titles and the database links to the full text of many of the articles.

PsycArticles
Full text of about 50 journals from the American Psychological Association, and other groups. Covers basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research. All of these journals are indexed in PsycINFO above.
--1988 to present but varies by title


Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)
One of the largest of the full-text databases, Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) includes citations, abstracts and some full-text for several thousand English-language general periodicals and scholarly journals dealing with all subject areas including education, psychology, sociology, social work, and family studies. Most materials available in UNCG Library. Coverage from 1980 to date.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Provides abstracts for almost 8,000 scholarly and popular journals covering topics across the disciplines including education, sociology and psychology. Considerable full-text dating back to 1990 with some as far back as 1975.

Selected Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks

The following titles can provide background information on your topic or help you with specialized words and terms which are unfamiliar. Bibliographies at the end of each article may refer you to other useful sources. For dictionaries and encyclopedias in other disciplines and for books, go to the University Libraries online catalog. “Ref”  titles are available in the Reference Department, 1st floor of Jackson Library and must be used in the building.

Encyclopedia of special education : a reference for the education of children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities and other exceptional individuals / edited by Cecil R. Reynolds, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen. 3rd ed.  (2007)  Jackson Library Reference    LC4007 .E53 2007 

Encyclopedia of  disability / general editor, Gary L. Albrecht. 2006. Available online,  and Jackson Library Reference HV1568 .E528 2006 .

Special education: a summary of legal requirements, terms, and trends / Richard F. Daugherty.2001. Available online, and
Jackson Library Stacks KF4209.3 .D38 2001 (c.1) and Jackson Library Reference Room KF4209.3 .D38 2001 (c.2)

Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood development / editors-in-chief, Marshall M. Haith & Janette B. Benson. 2008.
Jackson Library Reference HQ767.84 .E5450 2008 V. 1-3

Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed. 2003. Available online.
Location: Jackson Library Ref. LB15 .E47 (8 vols.)

Encyclopedia of human development / Neil J. Salkind, editor. 2006.  Available online, and    
Jackson Library Ref HM626 .E53 2006

Encyclopedia of education and human development / Stephen J. Farenga and Daniel Ness, editors.
Jackson Library Ref LB1027.55.E523 2005

Encyclopedia of school psychology / editor, Steven W. Lee.  Available online.
Jackson Library Ref LB1027.55.E523 2005  

APA, MLA, Turabian Citation Style Information

Revised. Sept 2009 by SES Librarian: Mary Krautter
Maintained by: Hannah Winkler