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

The University Libraries

SES 750: Introduction to Doctoral Studies in Specialized Education Services

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

Subject Databases to Locate Journal Articles

Databases are computerized subject guides to magazines, journals, newspapers, and other materials. For more choices than those listed below, 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 in the Resources In Education Index (ED numbers available online for newer and some older documents) and from more than 750 education and education-related journals in the Current Index to Journals in Education (EJ numbers). Excellent for topics dealing with schools of all types and levels, parent-school relationships, counseling, vocational guidance, special education, child discipline, and so on. New issues sometimes aren't added quickly. Coverage from the 1960s.

Education Full Text
Indexes over 400 education journals dating from 1984; about half of the journals include some full text. 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 clear as ERIC nor is the subject coverage as deep or varied so it can be hard to find the right terms to get 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. Large number of foreign language titles. 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

Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
Indexes more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references. Also provides access to cited references, the footnotes to a scholarly article. Corresponds to the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).
--1956 to present

Medline
The PubMed database indexes articles from over 4,800 leading medical and life sciences journals. Covers the fields of nursing, medicine, psychiatry, genetics, public health, hospital administration, pharmaceuticals, biology, nutrition, and a wide range of biomedical titles. Citations in these databases are compiled by the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library. Most useful for nurses and physicians, but has articles on treating all types of medical conditions.
--1953 to present

Child Development and Adolescent Studies
Covers materials relating to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide.
--1927 to present

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. Aside from Education Full Text, Academic Search Premier may have a little better coverage of full text education, child development, and psychology materials than Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) or ProQuest Research Library. Considerable 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
Search citations and abstracts of dissertations submitted by UNCG and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database, view 24-page previews of dissertations published after 1996 and download the full text of dissertations published after 1996.

TESTS AND MEASURES

Mental Measurements
A useful database for locating and evaluating testing instruments, the MMYcorresponds to the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook and contains 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.
--1985 to present (9th edition to the present)

ERIC/AE Test Locator
Contains descriptions of over 20,000 tests and research instruments from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Tests in Microfiche Collection and ERIC Document Reproduction Service, tests described in journal articles or book chapters, and descriptions that were created or verified after 1989 of commercially available tests. This database provides descriptions of tests, citations to scholarly reviews of tests, and publisher contact information. 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.

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)  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 and
Location: Ref. LB15 .E47 (8 vols.)

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

Encyclopedia of education and human development / Stephen J. Farenga and Daniel Ness, editors. 2 volumes.
Ref LB1027.55.E523 2005

Encyclopedia of school psychology / editor, Steven W. Lee.  Also available online.
Ref LB1027.55.E523 2005       

Finding Books using the Library's Online Catalog

Use the Online Catalog to locate books in the Library. There are a variety of subject headings for education related topics. For subjects such as the following, enter the term, then click on the LC Subject box, not Keyword. NOTE:  especially in the area of disabilities, terms used as subject headings may seem outdated and often don’t reflect current terminology.

In Keyword searching, the computer hunts for all of your words in the title, subject, or notes lines. An LC Subject search will tell the computer to look for your terms only in the subject headings assigned to that book. Always use Keyword searching when combining terms using or and and.
e.g. (special education or learning disabilities) AND methods.

Remember that terms that you regularly use may not be the subject headings used in the Online Catalog or in subject databases. Subject headings can become dated, but you can still find the information you're seeking. For example, you may typically use the terms “deaf” or “deafness” but the online catalog, in addition to these terms, still uses terms such as “Hearing Impaired” or “Hearing Impaired Persons.” To find all information, do a keyword search on a familiar term, click on the title of a book that looks promising, then check for other terms or subject headings underlined in blue, under the publisher information. You can click on any of these subject headings to view other books on the same topic, or do your search again using these terms.

Accessing Journal Articles by Journal Type

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

APA, MLA, Turabian Citation Style Information

Library Catalogs

WorldCat

   School of Education Subject Guides

 

Author: Gerald Holmes, revised Sept. 2009 by Mary Krautter
Maintained by: Hannah Winkler