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Subject Databases
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Librarian - Bernice Wright

Email: bwright@sfasu.edu
Phone: (936) 468-1528
Office: 202d
Appointments Available

General Databases

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.

Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.

 

Subject Databases

ERIC (Ebsco) provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

ERIC (IES) is a digital library of education-related resources, including journal and non-journal literature with some available in full text format.

Health Reference Center (Thomson Gale) provides indexing for magazines and journal articles dealing with allied heath, medicine, and nursing subjects with full-text access to many of articles.

PsycINFO (Ebsco) indexes and abstracts books and book chapters in English, and 1,300+ journals in over 20 languages in the field of psychology.

Social Work Abstracts (Ebsco) provides abstracts for articles, dealing with the field of social work, in English-language periodicals.

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E-Text

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.

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Websites

Children's House in Cyberspace
"A cooperative, interactive resource center for the exchange of information that serves the well being of children." The Information Resources page is organized by topic and aims to provide links to agencies, collections, and documents stored on the web that deal with children's issues.

Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting (CEEP)
The Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting (CEEP) is part of the the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CEEP provides publications and information to the worldwide early childhood and parenting communities. It also includes an archive to the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center (at UNC-Chapel Hill)
The Center is geared toward the study of young children and their families with a focus on a child's development and health. Has a search feature and lots of full-text documents in PDF format.

The National Academy for Child Development (NACD)
An international organization begun in 1979 by Robert J. Doman, Jr. which is dedicated to helping children reach their full potential. The site deals with everything from the learning disabled, to ADD, to cerebral palsy, to gifted children.

National Black Child Development Institute
A site dedicated to promote and protect African American children.

National Child Care Information Center
A national resource that links people to information to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system. Click on Selected Resource Lists for links to many sites and documents relating to child care. The Online Library link is a useful tool for searching for information on specific topics.

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