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Psychology and Child DevelopmentArticlesTo locate articles on psychology and child development, it is most effective to go to the special databases devoted to those subjects Elsevier Social & Behavioral Sciences Journals Collection — This collection of full-text journals provides access to full-text for the last four years of the journals in the collection, as well as abstracts for articles prior to that. EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier and others — The EBSCOHost collection includes several different databases that may be of use, depending on the precise nature of your research. PsychArticles is a full-text database of journals focused specifically on psychology and psychiatry. Academic Search Premier is the principal database and will provide solid research on almost all topics related to psychology and child development. If your topic is medical in nature (a disorder, for example), also try the Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition or CINAHL Fulltext. If you are working on something with an education angle, try the Professional Development Collection (also ERIC, but it has less full text). If you subject has a potential business angle, like personality testing or organizational psychology, try Business Source Elite. Searches can also be set up in a variety of ways to control the date and type of items retrieved. Liebert Health Science E-Journals — The Liebert collection contains more than 60 different electronic journals, primarily in health-related fields. Subject matter ranges from cyberpscyhology and behavior to women's health. Users may search by keyword or jump directly to the journal of interest and look through the tables of contents of various issues for relevant articles. Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP — This general purpose database includes sources suitable to both psychology and child development research topics. What makes Expanded Academic ASAP different is that it uses a "subject" search. When you put in a keyword (use only one word or a two-word phrase for best results), it locates your result in a list of topics. You can then narrow that topic further. For this reason, this database is most useful when you are developing your ideas rather than when you have a narrowly focussed idea in mind. Medline — The premier medical citation (includes dentistry and psychiatry) database is available through FirstSearch, which adds some value over the public version available on the internet by cross-referencing some full-text articles with its other databases. Science Resource Center - More than 200 magazines and academic journals, as well as topic overviews, experiments, biographies, illustrations and web links are gathered together in this database. Dictionaries, Background and Special Information SourcesOther electronic resources available to students are: Oxford Reference Online — offers users access to more than 120 titles in Oxford University Press's Companion collection and subject dictionaries, including:
AccessScience — is the McGraw-Hill online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, an excellent first stop for scientific and technical research. In addition to general scientific information, it includes sections devoted to medicine, psychiatry and psychology, biomedical science, food science and environmental science among others. Books and Subject HeadingsIn order to search for books or videos in the library, use the online catalog: You can also jump directly into searching the catalog of the entire system of libraries of which DACC is part, if you know that the item you want is not available from the DACC library: I-Share Catalog - You can also link to I-Share from within the DACC catalog. The library has several books that will be of use to students in Psychology and Child Development. The general Call Number Ranges of interest are: 150 Psychology 364 Criminology 370 Education 615 Pharmacology & theraputics 649 Child rearing & home care of sick Some of the more significant titles include: Diagnostic and
statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-IV. Encyclopedia of psychology. 2000. Handbook of child psychology. 1998. The Mental Measurements Yearbook Encyclopedia of mental health. 1998. Internet SitesHealth information is one of the most frequently sought types of information on the web. Because of the its nature, it is also one of the most important to take the time to ascertain the quality of the sources of information you are relying upon. Be particularly cautious about sites until you are aware of the funding sources sponsoring the information. The following web sites can generally be relied upon to provide high quality, current information. Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library - a large collection of links related to psychology with brief annotations indicating their contents. The Psi Cafe - An excellent resource for educational information about psychology, this site includes information and links to history of the subject, theories, news, and subject areas as well information for educators and potential grad students. Psych Central - The web's oldest annotated directory of mental health resources. All of the sites are reviewed by the project's manager, Dr. John Grohol. A truly in-depth resource. National Institute of Mental Health - Free public and research information on bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and general mental health resources. National Mental Health Association - General awareness site that provides solid introductory information. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - the U.S. public agency responsible for the health of the U.S. population, including disease control, workplace health, environmental health concerns and disaster-related health concerns. Hardin MD (MetaDirectory) is the in-depth collection of web links and image collections established by the University of Iowa's Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. National Center for Early Development and Learning - This federal site supports considerable research into the nature of early childhood development. Copies of its research are available for free in PDF format online. The collection of related links is also very useful. Child Trends Databank - This non-partisan research organization compiles data from federal sources and presents it in user friendly formats according to a variety of themes and subgroups of interest to a range of audiences. Child and Family WebGuide - Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Department and the librarians at Tufts University provides this collection of reviewed and sorted links about child development and childcare that targets both parents and professionals. Kaiser Family Foundation's StateHealthFacts.org - statistical information related to health broken down by state. Everything from insurance coverage and provider information to disease statistics and health care concerns broken down by demographic category are available. Similar to StateHealthFacts is GlobalHealthFacts.org, the Kaiser Foundation's site for health statistics of a global nature. Citing Your SourcesNeed to cite your sources? For information on citing your sources according to proper APA style, see the campus citation guide. You can also use the citation builder, Noodletools. You will need to create a personal account to use Noodletools. You will also need to have all the information about each of your sources available in order to use it. If you have questions about this or any other library
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