FSC 5100: Research in Child Development
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LIBRARY CATALOG
Provides access to books and materials in other formats available at Appalachian, UNC Asheville and Western Carolina. Searching the broad subject "Child Development" yields over 1300 titles. Also check the other subject headings used in these records. Most books and periodicals owned by UNCA and WCU can be borrowed using the ABC-Express van service, at no charge, and received in 1-2 days. Information about requesting items from UNCA or WCU: http://www.library.appstate.edu/services/docdelivery/abcexp.html
Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography , 1928-2001. ASU MAIN STACKS HQ 750 .C47
Covers nearly 275 English and foreign language journals, technical reports, and books related to the growth and development of children.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES: Databases by Subject
Child Development (compiled by ASU Librarians)
http://www.library.appstate.edu/vdb/by_subject/subjectreport?search_subject=Child%20Development
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES: Recommended Databases by Title
Academic Search Premier, 1984-present; Full Text: 1990-present.
A general database which provides full text for 1,250 magazines and journals and citations with abstracts to nearly 3,000 titles. Over 1,600 titles are peer-reviewed.
Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption, 1965-present.
Contains citations and abstracts from books, journals, government reports, conference papers, state annual reports, curricula, and unpublished papers.
Education Full Text, Indexing: 1983-present; Full Text and abstracts: 1994-present.
Provides citations with abstracts to nearly 500 international journals--with full text access to more than 130 journals, monographs, and yearbooks on a wide range of contemporary education issues.
ERIC , 1966-present; Some full text.
Indexes journal articles and documents in the field of education.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide, 1970-present.
References, with lengthy abstracts, for journal articles and books from a wide range of disciplines on family and human development.
PsycINFO, 1887-present; Some full text.
Provides citations, with abstracts, to journal articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, and reports covering the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Sociological Abstracts,
Provides citations (and abstracts since 1974) for articles in more than 2,500 international journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations. Also indexes Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) which focuses on solutions to social problems.
WEB SOURCES
Child Trends DataBank
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/
Provides "trends and research on over 70 key indicators of child and youth well-being ."
ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education
http://ericeece.org/
"Providing information since 1967 for educators, parents and families, and all of us interested in the development, education, and care of children from birth through early adolescence."
National Association for Child Development
http://www.nacd.org/
"NACD is an international non-profit organization that exists to gather, evaluate, and disseminate information and procedures relative to human development."
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
From the Web site: "(NICHD) seeks to assure that every individual is born healthy and wanted, that women suffer no adverse consequence from the reproductive process, and that all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential for a healthy and productive life unhampered by disease or disability."
INTERLIBRARY LOAN
Illiad , http://www.library.appstate.edu/services/docdelivery/
An internet accessible database providing forms for requesting books, journals, and other items not in the collections of Appalachian State University Libraries and not available through ABC Express.
Content editor: Virginia Branch, branchvc@appstate.edu, Reference & Instruction Librarian