Guides
- Education Research Guides
- Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Government Documents
- Directories
- Legal Resources
- Statistical Resources
- Online Catalog
- Print and Online Periodical Indexes
- Websites
Education Research Guides
ref LB15.O270 available online 
Education: a Guide to Reference and Information Sources. 2000.
ref LB1028 .B4
Research in Education. 1998
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
ref RF 290 .T93
Encyclopedia of Deafness and Hearing Disorders. 2000.
ref HV 1568 .E53
Encyclopedia of Disability and Rehabilitation. 1995.
ref HV2475 .C66
Random House Webster's American Sign Language Dictionary. 1998.
ref LB15 .E48
Encyclopedia of Educational Research, 6th ed. 1992
ref LC3957 .V470
Dictionary of Special Education and Rehabilitation. 1997.
ref LC 4007 .E53
Encyclopedia of Special Education: a Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and other Exceptional Children and Adults. 2000.
ref LB15 .E47
Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed. 2003.
also
online
ref LB15 .I569
International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed. 1994
Government Documents --Some Examples
"To Assure the Free Appropriate Public Education of All Handicapped Children": Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Education of the Handicapped Act. available online - http://www.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/osep/index.html
SUDOC #HE 23.1108:L 47/19 (ask at Reference Desk)
Including Children with Significant Disabilities in Head Start: Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community. 1998
SUDOC #C3.2:97008980 (ask at Reference Desk)
Disability - U.S. Census. (available online) 1997.
SUDOC #ED 1.2:C 49/4 (ask at Reference Desk)
Civil Rights of Students with Hidden Disabilities under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. 1995.
SUDOC #ED 1.2:D 63/8 (ask at Reference Desk)
Chartbook on Disability in the United States. 1989.
Directories
ref HV99 .G84 .D570Directory of Community Services, Guilford County. 1997.
ref LC4007 .D5
Directory for Exceptional Children. 2001-02.
Resources for People with Disabilities: a National Directory. 2001.
ref LC4704.6 .C66
Complete Learning Disabilities Directory. 2002.
Legal Resources
Full text articles from over 7500 journals, magazines, transcripts, newspapers, editorials, newsletters, and other sources. Covers news, business, law, medicine, government, and other types of information. Especially good for short articles on current issues and for newspaper articles on issues and programs relevant to North Carolina. Updated daily except for newspapers which are usually updated within 48 hours.
--Dates of coverage vary by publication.
ref KFN 7790 .E38
Education Law in North Carolina. current loose-leaf update.
ref KF4210. H36
Students with Disabilities and Special Education. 1996.
KFN 4110.3 .W50
West's Education Law Digest, vols 1-28.
KFN 4110 .A2 W47
West's Education Law Reporter, 1984-2001.
ref KF 4209.3 .D38
Special Education: a Summary of Legal Requirements, Terms, and Trends. 2001.
book stacks KF 4209.3 .O82
Special Education and the Law: a Guide for Practitioners. 2003.
Statistical Resources
ref L112 .N377ACondition of Education. current-- also online
ref L112 .A35
Digest of Education Statistics. current-- also online
ref LA210 .A28
Projections of Education Statistics to.... current-- also online
ref LA212 .N36A
Rankings of the States. current edition.
ABCs of Public Education in North Carolina. current edition.
ref HA201 (Reference Desk)
Statistical Abstract of the United States. current-- also online
Online Catalog and Keyword Searching
Additional material can be found in the stacks by searching the Jackson Library online catalog. Search by using any of the following Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Audiology
Blind, Apparatus for the
Children with Disabilities -- Education
College Students with Disabilities
Communication Devices for People with Disabilities
Deafness
Hearing
Hearing Disorders
Inclusive Education
Learning Disabilities
Learning Disabled Children
Mainstreaming in Education
Rehabilitation Children -- Health and hygiene
Special Education
Special Education Literature
Special Education Teachers
Students with Disabilities
Teenagers with Disabilities
Youth with Disabilities
If you have any questions about how to perform an efficient Online Catalog search, do not hesitate to ask a librarian.
Print and Online Periodical Indexes
How to Use Search Connectors AND, OR and NOT.
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) 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.
--Coverage from the 1960s.
Education Fulltext. 1929 to current date.
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.
Exceptional Child Education Resources. 1969 to 2003. (First eight volumes have title: Exceptional Child Education Abstracts).
books stacks LC3965 .E850
A guide to books, journals, dissertations, and nonprint sources. There is some overlap with ERIC but this set indexes some journals and many non-journal items not covered in ERIC.
PsycINFO via EBSCOhost
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..
--1872 to present
Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index)
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. Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more. 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
- The Social Sciences Citation Index covers over 2,100 journals. ( journal list )
- Web of Science Training Aids
- ISI Journal Abbreviations Index
This database provides users the opportunity to access their favorite titles and authors in order to locate similar works of fiction. Users enter key words they are interested in reading about and the database then provides a comprehensive list of titles on those topics. NoveList contains materials for all ages including picture books, children's chapter books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. Updated monthly, the NoveList database integrates information from a variety of sources and it contains full-text reviews for adult, young adult, children's and easy fiction titles from several journals, including Booklist, School Library Journal, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. In addition to these reviews, there are annotations and summaries, and all of them are searchable.
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.
Websites
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