Education Resources

Student I.D.: Obtain a student id immediately. Your UCF ID card shows Library ID. Several electronic resources and services require you to enter a valid, active Library ID number. It is activated the first time you borrow books in the Library. Alternative methods for activating the library ID number are found on the Library Services for Distance Learners page.

Remote access: Current students can gain access to the electronic databases to which UCF subscribes if they follow the directions found at Off Campus Access with EZ Proxy. For additional assistance, contact Ask a Librarian.

Questions: For assistance with catalog or database searching, setting the proxy, or ready reference questions, contact Ask a Librarian. Distance Learning Students should also review the UCF Library’s Library Services for Distance Learners page for additional information.

Books:

Books are arranged on the shelf in a Library of Congress classification system of letters and numbers. Circulating books on education topics are usually located on 3rd floor of the library. Reference books are on the 2nd floor.

You can browse through the call number ranges:

L-LT	Education
LA	History of education
LB 1050-1091	Educational psychology
LB 1139.2-1139.5	Early childhood education
LB 1140-1140.5	Preschool education; nursery school
LB 1141-1489	Kindergarten
LB 1501-1547	Elementary school education
LB 1603-1696.6	Secondary education
LB 1705-2286	Teacher and administrator education
LB 2300-2430	Higher education
LB 2801-3095	School administration and organization
LC	Special aspects of education
LC 3950-4806.5	Special education
LC 5201-6660.4	Adult and continuing education
LD	Individual U. S. institutions
LE-LG	Individual institutions outside of the U. S.
LH	College/school newspapers/magazines
LJ	Fraternities and societies
LT	Textbooks

For additional assistance in using the online catalog, contact Ask a Librarian.

Browse in the Library Catalog

Use the UCF Library Catalog to locate books and multimedia. Enter an author, title, or subject into the Browse Organized Lists form on the basic search screen.

Tips:

• To search by title, enter the first words in a title or a complete title. Do NOT enter the first word if it is an article (The, An, A) in English or any other language.
• To search by subject, select "Subject" in the form and enter a Library of Congress Subject Heading. 
• To search for a person, select "Subject" or "Author (last name, first)", depending on you want books by or about the person, then enter the last name then first name, as it would appear in a phone directory. 
• For more tips, click on the .

Journal Databases/Indexes for Education Topics:

Database	Description	Access
EBSCOhost	Provides abstracts and indexing for scholarly journals in education, the social sciences, humanities, etc. From here you can search ERIC, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, and the Professional Development Collection separately or collectively. The professional development collection contains information for professional collections.	Vendor: EBSCO
ERIC via EBSCOhost	Includes links to ERDS.	Vendor: EBSCOhost
ERIC Document Reproduction Service (1965- for citations)(1996 - for full text)	Includes records of ERIC documents since 1965, with links to full text in PDF format for approximately 80% of ERIC documents from 1996 forward. Search ERIC, via EBSCOhost or CSA, to identify documents, and use EDRS to get the full text.	Vendor: DOE
Professional Development Collection	Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children’s health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. The Professional Development Collection includes abstract and index coverage for nearly 450 well-known professional development titles, and searchable full text for nearly 360 journals covering the most current topics in the field of education.	Vendor: EBSCOhost
Education Full Text, 1983-present. Abstracts since 1994.	Indexes articles from over 400 educational journals on a wide range of topics in the field of education. Keep abreast of new concepts, trends and methodologies in curriculum, leadership and teaching methods. Full-text is not included.	Vendor: Wilson Web
Education Index, 1924-present.	Indexes periodical articles, yearbooks, motion pictures, videotapes and computer programs by author and subject. Book reviews are indexed separately at the end of each issue.	Access: Paper; Index L 11.E39
Physical Education Index, 1970-present	Covers journal literature dealing with health, physical education, physical therapy, recreation, sports, sports medicine, dance, etc. Additional coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society. From 1970-	Vendor: CSA
Middle Search Plus	Contains full-text articles in journals geared toward middle school and junior high school students.	Vendor: EBSCOhost.
Primary Search	Contains full-text articles in journals geared toward elementary school children.	Vendor: EBSCOhost
ERIC via CSA	Includes links to ERDS.	Vendor: CSA
Exceptional Child Education Resources, Exceptional Child Education Resources	Covers books, journals, and media about disabilities, giftedness, and special education topics for infants to older adults. Updated quarterly. Much overlap with ERIC.	Access: Paper;Index LC 3969.E94 Vendor: SilverPlatter
Higher Education Abstracts	Focuses on current research and theory of higher education. Arranged by topics, author and subjects.	Access: Paper; Index LB 2343.H32
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts	Covers aspects of the study of language, covering various fields of linguistics, including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Some full-text journal articles.	Vendor: CSA
Dissertation Abstracts	Definitive subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962.	Vendor: Proquest
PsycInfo, 1983-present	Indexes over 1200 English language psychology journals, including educational psychology with abstracts only.	Vendor: EBSCOhost
Sociological Abstracts, 1963-present	Covers sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, with information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations.	Vendor: CSA
Web of Science, 1994-present	Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database includes records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts.	Vendor: ISI
WorldCat	Provides bibliographic citations and library locations for books and other materials worldwide. Click on World Cat to bring up the database.	Vendor: FirstSearch
Expanded Academic ASAP (1980 - present)	Indexes approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Provides access to full text of many articles	Vendor: Thomson Gale
Lexis Nexis Academic (1980s-present)	Interdisciplinary, full-text database of over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works.	Vendor: Lexis-Nexis

Finding Journals in Library Catalog

The UCF Library Catalog is the most complete inventory of journals available from the Libraries and can inform you of the Libraries' past and current print subscriptions and the majority of our current online subscription.

To search for journals, select JOURNALS/SERIALS from the menu near the top of the screen:

 

Note:  The catalog does not contain information about the articles in the journals.  It will tell you if the library has a given volume or issue of a journal, but not about what articles were included.

Search Tips:

• Enter any words that are likely to appear in association with the journal you want.
• To search for words in a title, select Title Keyword then  enter word that would appear in the journal title.
• To search by subject, select Subject Keyword and enter any words from a Library of Congress Subject Heading.
• To search for journals by an organization, select Author Keyword then enter the name or parts of the name. 
• Do NOT enter punctuation or articles (The, An, A).
• To search for a phrase set Exact Phrase? to Yes.
• For more tips, click on the .

Browse Tips:

• To search by journal title, enter the first words in a title or a complete title. Do NOT enter the first word if it is an article (The, An, A).
• To search by subject, select Subject in the form and enter a Library of Congress Subject Heading.
• You can select ISSN to find a specific journal.
• For more tips, click on the .

Journals vs. Magazines:

What is the difference between a scholarly journal and a popular magazine? For help in determining the difference see What’s the Difference—Journals vs. Magazines.

Interlibrary Loan:

When UCF does not own the book, article, or other document needed by UCF students, faculty, or staff, the Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Services Department (ILL) will try to obtain a copy of it from another library--usually within about 2 weeks. For additional information or for the electronic request forms go to Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services.

World Wide Web Sources:

Search the Internet with caution. Remember that anyone can mount anything on the web! For instructions for searching the WWW, click <Untangle the Web> and follow the tutorial. For help developing a search strategy, click <Recommended Search Strategy for the Web (University of California, Berkeley)>. To use a subject directory, a popular search engine, a specialized search engine or a meta-search engine use <Internet Tools>. Evaluate the sites you find using criteria located at <Evaluating Internet Sites in 5 Easy Steps (ACRL)>.

Some relevant web sites include:

Education Webliography	Ask a Librarian
Florida Department of Education	U.S. Department of Education - Publications
UCF Government Document Collection	Untangle the Web!
EDE6933 Elementary Education Seminar	Internet Tools
EDF6481c Fundamentals of Graduate Research in Education	UCF’s Curriculum Materials Center

Citing Resources for Papers/Research:

• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by APA
• Using Principles of APA Style to Cite
• APA Style Resources
• APA Writing Style Guide

Last update:17 April 2007