Accessing Journal Articles by Journal Name
Use Journal Finder to see if UNCG has a journal by the journal title.
Databases may also have links, such as Check for full text availability of this item.
Clicking this link will open a new window and do a search for the journal you want in Journal Finder.
Journal Finder will tell you if:
- the journal is available online,
or
- the journal is available in print in the library.
Tips for using Journal Finder:
- Note the date of your article so that you can verify that it falls sometime between the "full text begins" and "full text ends" dates.
- If there is nothing under "full text ends" that means we have access to that journal "up to the present."
- If the article you need is not in Journal Finder, don't despair!
- Click on
for mail or electronic delivery through Interlibrary Loan
- Click on
to check whether other libraries own this title OR Ask a librarian for more help!
Subject Databases to Locate Journal Articles
Databases are computerized subject guides to magazines, journals, newspapers, and other materials.
ERIC
(EBSCO)
- Abstracts and some full text for almost a million references from over a thousand education journals (EJ) as well as published and unpublished educational materials such as school system reports, conference papers, research reports, and dissertations (ED)
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Subjects: anything related to education including schools of all types and levels, parent-school relationships, early childhood education, child discipline, etc.
- Most journals (EJ) available in Jackson Library or accessible through interlibrary loan
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ERIC Documents (ED): Many full text pre-2004 documents are on microfiche in storage while the recent ED publications are available in full text online
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Dates of coverage: 1966 +
Education
Full Text (Wilson)
PsycINFO
(EBSCO)
- 1000+ journals, most peer-reviewed, plus book chapters and dissertations
- Some full text; links through Journal Finder to additional full text
- Selected topics: behavioral assessment, community mental health, and casework with special populations
- Dates of coverage: 1872 +
PsycArticles (EBSCO)
Child
Development and Adolescent Studies (EBSCO)
- Covers materials relating to the growth and development of children through
the age of 21
- 1927 +
Social
Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Citations , author abstracts, and cited references (footnotes to a scholarly article) to 2,000+ peer-reviewed social science journals
- No full-text but links to Journal Finder to locate many full text articles
- Covers K-12, higher, and special education, historical topics in the social sciences, school administration, counseling, educational psychology, and educational research
- Cited reference search: allows you to find articles from journals citing a book or an article
- Journal Citations Reports : identifies the important (ranked) Education journals
- Dates of coverage: 1956 +
Mental
Measurements
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Corresponds to the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook
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Full text information about and reviews of more than 2,000 commercially
available, English-language standardized tests covering educational skills,
personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, neuropsychology, achievement,
intelligence, and related areas
- It does not have the full text of the tests. For each test, the database provides the name of the test author, publication information, overview of the test, description of the test materials and time needed, intended populations, scoring information, the number of the Mental Measurements Yearbook in which the test was originally described, and one or more reviews of the test
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1985 + (9th edition to the present)
ERIC/AE
Test Locator
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Descriptions of over 20,000 tests and research instruments from the Educational
Testing Service (ETS) Tests in Microfiche Collection and ERIC
Document Reproduction Service
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Describes commercially available tests in journal articles or book chapters
that were created or verified after 1989
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Content: descriptions of tests, citations to scholarly reviews of tests,
and publisher contact information
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Tests listed in the collection are NOT available from ERIC/AE ; however,
those from ETS are available on microfiche in Jackson Library: microfiche
LB1131 .T550. If the contact information lists a person, organization, or
publisher, contact them to inquire about the availability of the test.
Medline
- Indexes articles from thousands of the leading medical and life sciences
journals
- Subject coverage: nursing, medicine, psychiatry, genetics, public health,
biology, nutrition, and a wide range of biomedical titles
- 1953 +
Academic
Search Premier (EBSCO)
- Multidisciplinary index with considerable full text for thousands of scholarly
and popular journals
- Full-text dating back to 1990 with some as far back as 1975
Dissertations
and Theses: Full Text
- Selectively covers dissertations from Canada, the United Kingdom, and a
few other countries
- Full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective
full text coverage for selected older graduate works
- Indexes dissertations accepted at accredited US institutions since 1861
Dissertations & Theses@UNCG
- Provides the full text of UNCG dissertations and theses published after 1996. Provides abstracts for earlier years
Finding Books
Library Catalog – includes print, audio, and online books, videos, music recordings and other materials.
Choosing subjects for searching for books Keyword searching - includes all words in the title, subject, or notes, use one or two word terms
LC Subject searching terms only in the LC subject headings
NOTE: terms used as subject headings may be outdated and often don’t reflect current terminology. Some typical subject headings are below.
- Blind
- Child development
- Children with disabilities
- Educational counseling
- Language disorders in children
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Do a Keyword search on a one or two word term you would use, click on the title of a book that looks promising, then check for the correct subject headings which will be underlined in blue under the publisher information. You can click on any subject heading to see other books on the same topic.
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 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 Disability / general editor, Gary L. Albrecht. 2006. AVAILABLE
ONLINE
Reference HV1568 .E528 2006
Special
Education :A summary of legal requirements, terms, and trends /
Richard F. Daugherty.2001. AVAILABLE ONLINE.
Jackson Library Stacks KF4209.3 .D38 2001 (c.1) and Jackson Library Reference Room KF4209.3 .D38 2001 (c.2)
Encyclopedia
of Human Development / Neil J. Salkind, editor. 2006. 2 volumes.
Also available online.
Ref HM626 .E53 2006
Encyclopedia
of School Psychology / editor, Steven W. Lee. Also available
online.
Ref LB1027.55 .E523 2005
Encyclopedia of the social and cultural foundations of education. Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., editor. 2009.
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