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Research Resources for Early Childhood Education
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Journal Articles

EBSCO Academic Search Premier

A multidisciplinary database with full-text articles. You can find scholarly articles by checking the box to the left of the option, "Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals". Academic Search Premier contains many major peer-reviewed journals in the field of Child Development, including: Child Development , Early Child Development and Care, Infant and Child Development, and many others. 

EBSCO Professional Development Collection 

Professional Development Collection™ provides a collection of electronic information especially for professional educators and education researchers. It offers information on a wide variety of educational topics ranging from children’s health and development to pedagogical theory and practice. In addition, it provides indexing and abstracting for over 700 journals in the field of education and full text access to 550 of these. 

 

Identifying Books in the library catalog

To find items on a specific aspect of Business topics, do a Word search for and keywords related to your topic. For example:

  • Children and developmental stages

  • Children and perception

  • Children and emotion

Reference Books

Available online through the Gale Virtual Reference Library

Salkind, Neil J., Ed. Encyclopedia of Child Development. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 487 pp. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale.  

Fass, Paula S., Ed. Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. 1056 pp. 3 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale. 

Web Sites

National Association for the Education of Young Children Resource Page
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.  Founded in 1926, NAEYC is the world's largest organization working on behalf of young children with nearly 100,000 members, a national network of over 300 local, state, and regional Affiliates, and a growing global alliance of like-minded organizations.