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Library Catalog
Library Catalog Provides access to books and materials in other formats available at Appalachian, UNC Asheville and Western Carolina .
*We will mail the books to your home and you should receive them in approximately one week. The postage is free both ways.
Sample subjects:
- Behavioral assessment of children
- Child development
- Child psychology
- Developmental biology
- Developmental psychobiology
- Developmental psychology
- Emotions in children
- Language acquisition
- Social interaction in children
Library Databases
Education Research Complete
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,780 journals, as well as full text for more than 870 journals. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialtie.
ERIC, 1966-present; Full text.
Indexes journal articles and documents in the field of education.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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and abstracts from books, journals, government reports, conference papers, state annual reports, curricula, and unpublished papers.
Academic OneFile, 1980-present
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed
Web Sources
Child Trends DataBank
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/
Provides "trends and research on over 70 key indicators of child and youth well-being ."
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."
National Association for the Education of Young Children
http://www.naeyc.org/
"Promoting excellence in early childhood education."
Zero to Three
http://www.zerotothree.org/
"The nations leading resource on the first years of life."
Research Tools
How To Guides and Tutorials
For a list of tools to help you with your research.
How to Cite Sources
An online guide on how to cite print and electronic sources using APA and other style guides.
ILLiad-Interlibrary Loan
An internet accessible database providing forms for requesting journals not available online and other items not in the collections of Appalachian State University Libraries and not available through ABC Express.
Geri Purpur
purpurgm@appstate.edu