BOOKS:

QUEST, our computerized catalog, provides access to the materials in our library.  Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to identify the best subject headings for your topic.  Some topics that might be of interest:
 
 

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS

Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Some of these indexes are print and some electronic.  Access the electronic resources from the PLU library web page (http://www.plu.edu/~libr/articles/home.html).  Some electronic resources require a username and password.  To locate articles on topics related to Education, use:

Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography (1939, Index Area, ref HQ750.A1C47) Abstracts from professional periodicals and book reviews related to the growth and development of children.

Dissertation Abstracts International (1861+, via PLU library home page)  Compilation of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted by 450 cooperating universities in the U.S. and Canada.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite(via PLU library home page)  A multi-disciplinary index covering over 3000 journals and newspapers.  About 1/3 of  the articles are available full-text on the database.

Education Index (1920-1997, Index Area, ref Z5813.E23)(1983+ via PLU library home page as Education Abstracts) Indexes selected scholarly/professional journals covering most areas of education, including methods and problems as well as broader societal conditions that effect education.

Educational Administration Abstracts(1969+, Index Area, ref Z5814.M26E3)  A quarterly listing of abstracts for articles relevant to educational administration.  Abstracts are arranged under broad subject headings.  No annual or cumulative indexes.

ERIC (1966+, via PLU library home page)  A combination of two print sources:  Resources in Education and Current Index to Journals in Education.  ERIC provides indexing for scholarly and professional journals plus ERIC documents.  ERIC documents include research, project and technical reports, curriculum guides, and more.  PLU has a comprehensive collection of  ERIC microfiche beginning with 1991 and selected fiche for earlier years.

E*Subscribe (via PLU Library Website) Offers ERIC documents in full text (.pdf file format) from 1996 to the present. Use the Express Search option to search by known ED (ERIC document) number. When searching for information on education and related topics in journals and documents, search ERIC (see listing above) and follow the links to EDRS (E*Subscribe) for the full text.  Off-campus access requires PLU ePass username and password

ProQuest (via PLU library home page) Covers more than 2,000 scholarly journals as well as popular magazines & newspapers in all subject & interdisciplinary areas, including education.

Psychological Abstracts (1938+, Index Area, ref BF1.P65) (1887+, via PLU library home page)  A comprehensive abstracting publication covering professional or scholarly journals in all areas of psychology and related fields including educational psychology, counseling, etc.
 
 
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodicals are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system.  Use Journals at PLU to identify the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are interfiled with the books in the main collection on the second and third floors. Journals at PLU also gives you access to the full-text journals we have online.

 
 

EDUCATION RESEARCH

Biographical Dictionary Of American Educators (ref.LA2311.B54)
Three-volume set containing biographical information

Education : A Guide to Reference and Information Sources (ref.LB15.B88x 1989)
Lists of resources for educational research.  Rather dated.

Encyclopedia of American Education (ref.LB17.U54 1996)
A four-volume set containing short articles on a variety of educational topics.

Encyclopedia of Educational Research(ref.LB15.E48 1992)
Critical interpretations of reported research on most aspects of education, each with an extensive bibliography. Updated annually by Review of Educational Research (L11.R35)

Handbook Of Child Psychology  (ref.BF721.H242 1998)
Volume 2 of this encyclopedia is called “Cognition, perception, and  language”.

Historical Encyclopedia of School Psychology (ref.LB1027.55.H57 1996)

International Encyclopedia of Education (ref.LB15.I569 1994)
A multi-volume set containing lengthy articles on all aspects of education
 
 

OTHER INTERESTING SOURCES

Human Language Series (VIDEO P106.H86x 1995)
Language and thinking (VIDEO P118.L36x 1992)
Language Development (VIDEO RJ131.D48 vol. 22)
Middle Childhood Cognitive And Language Development (VIDEO RJ131.D48 vol. 26)
 
 
 
 

INTERNET

General Education Sites

Awesome Library (http://www.awesomelibrary.org/)
Educational Resources (http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/education/education.html)
Educator’s Toolbox ( http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/ )
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/ )
U.S. Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov)

Language Sites

The Applied Linguistics WWW Virtual Library (http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/welcome.html)
Glossary of Second and Primary Language Acquisition Terms
    (http://lowellg.simplenet.com/secondlang.htm)
Early Language Acquisition(http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/devel/common/infant.htm#early)
Hale & Reiss Language Acquisition Page (http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/hale/child.html)
Language Acquisition: Contents page
    (http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/lectures.htm)
The Psychology of Language (http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/POL/POL.htm)
Teacher Resources and Tools (http://larcdma.sdsu.edu/larcnet/home.html)
 
 
 
 
 
 

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