Journal Title Search
Citing Sources
Databases for Children & Young Adults
Databases for Children and Young Adults:
- Encyclopedia Americana
Is a general reference tool that contains full-text articles, tables, maps, images and links to external web sites. - Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Is a general reference tool that contains full-text articles, tables, maps, images and links to external web sites.
- MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries containing full text for nearly 500 popular magazines and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. Information in other formats is also included. - New Book of Knowledge Is a general reference and current events tool for elementary level students. It contains full-text encyclopedia articles and periodical articles. Also, illustrations, maps, photographs, and links to external web sites.
- Primary Search Provides full text online from 50 children’s magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children’s reading rooms. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 80 magazines.
- Searchasaurus Is a children's interface for the following databases: Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Essential Databases - Search for Articles
Main Education Databases
- Career & Technical Education Is a source of vocational information. Keeping current with journals in a field is easily accomplished with e-mail alerting or RSS feeds.
- EBSCO Full Text This is actually two large multi-disciplinary databases that are combined into a single search interface (with duplicate records removed from results lists and with full text for most records). Academic Search Premier covers around 3200 scholarly journals from 1984 to the present and as far back as 1964 for some titles. MasterFILE Premier covers around 2800 journals from 1984 to the present.
- Education and IT Digital Library {EdITLib} offers peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of educational technology and e-learning.
- Education Full Text Covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. It cites every article of at least one column in length in more than 770 English-language periodicals.
- ERIC Indexes and abstracts thousands of education-related materials. It includes journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, and standards and guidelines.
- Learning Express Library Provides practice tests and test preparation guides for many of the most common standardized tests. It also offers courses, e-books, and practice tests for improving basic skills along with job search and career development.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook Contains information about English-language standardized tests. Each record contains the full text of one or more reviews of the test which the record describes. The tests themselves are not accessible through the database.
- SAGE Journals Online The library's subscriptions to scholarly journals published by SAGE can be search in this interface. The collection is particularly strong for Education.
Recommended Databases
- Alt-Press Watch Provides an alternative to corporate-controlled media at the national and local levels. Subject specific publications and grass roots media are included.
- Biography Reference Bank Cites biographical material appearing in periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
- Book Review Digest Cites and excerpts reviews appearing in periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. which cover English-language fiction and non-fiction. Children's books are included, but excluded are: textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences.
- Cabell’s Directories of Publishing Opportunities Each directory helps one to select those journals that are most likely to publish a manuscript. For each title it describes the: topic areas the journal emphasizes, type of review process, time required for review, availability of reviewers’ comments, fees charged to review or publish the manuscript, copies required, acceptance rate, number of external reviewers, and extensive information on the style and format of most journals.
- Chronicle of Higher Education Is an indispensable source of news, commentary, and data for academe. The library's site licence includes complete access to the archive back to 1989 and a number of extras: almanac issues back to 1995; special reports; supplemental information for print articles; slide shows and video; and alerting.
- Directory of Open Access Journals Is a comprehensive list of scholarly journals which make the full text of their articles freely available on the web.
- Dissertations & Theses: Full Text Indexes doctoral dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions since 1861. It selectively covers Master's Theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations going back to 1637. Nearly half of the records link to the full-text document.
- Films on Demand Is a large multi-disciplinary collection of streaming video.
- Films on Demand - Education Is a collection of streaming video.
- Google Scholar A search engine for scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
- JSTOR Is an online archive of scholarly journals which contains high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Offers numerous databases for law, news, and business.
- MEDLINE Produced by the National Library of Medicine and covers journal literature published internationally in all areas of medicine.
- NoveList Is a readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
- Project Muse Is an online archive of scholarly journals. Articles are searchable in a number of ways and may be viewed as web pages and in some cases as PDF files.
- ProQuest Sociology Collection This is a combined search for six databases from ProQuest that relate to Sociology.
- ProQuest Statistical Insight Draws upon multiple sources to offer a database of authoritative statistics that cover a range of topics.
- PsycARTICLES Offers the full text to the complete runs of more than 70 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA). For comprehensive searching of psychology journals (beyond just the APA titles) use PsycINFO.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection Has nearly 470 online full-text titles. Comprehensive searches are better done in PsycINFO which includes linking to these titles.
- PsycINFO Indexes journal articles, technical reports, monographic series, dissertations, and other materials relating to psychology. Articles are selected from more than 1,500 journals published in 35 languages.
- Reference Universe Is a scholarly alternative to Wikipedia. Thousands of reference books owned by Camden-Carroll Library in either print or e-book format can be searched via their back-of-the-book indexes.
- SAGE Research Methods Online Offers comprehensive information on research methodology primarily in the social sciences (but in other disciplines as well) taken from hundreds of publications by SAGE.
- ScienceDirect Is an online collection of mostly scientific scholarly journals and reference books.
- Social Services Abstracts Covers research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Indexes over 1,500 serials publications.
- Sociological Abstracts Indexes and abstracts articles in 1,500 journals in sociology, social work, and other social and behavioral sciences.
- Sociological Collection Includes nearly 560 online full-text titles (most of which are peer-reviewed). For comprehensive searching of sociology journals (including these) use Sociological Abstracts.
- Wiley Online Library Is an online collection of mostly scientific scholarly journals and e-books.
- WorldCat: WCL Interface Is a worldwide online union catalog that offers bibliographic and holdings information for thousands of libraries.
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Finding Full-Text Articles
When you are searching in the Library's databases look first for a link to a PDF file
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This button allows you to:
- See if the article is available online in ANY of the Library's databases, not just the one you are using.
- Search the Library's Catalog to see if the article is available in the library (if it is not online).
- Automatically do an interlibrary loan request if the article is not available online or in the library.
Peer Review
What is Peer Review?
It is the quality control system for scholarship. It means that articles in a peer-reviewed journal must be scrutinized by experts before they are published. SYNONYMS = 'academic', 'juried', 'refereed', 'scholarly'.
How can you tell when something is peer-reviewed?
1) When you are looking at a print copy, of an entire issue of a journal, the editorial board of scholars with academic credentials and institutional affiliations will be listed somewhere. These are the 'peers' that review each published article.
2) Use a check box limit in your database search (when available).
3) Consult Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. (Search on the source title NOT the article title.) An icon of a referee's jersey will indicate that the journal is peer-reviewed.
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