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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 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. However, the psychology of counseling books are found on the 1st floor and mental health counseling books are located on the 4th floor. Reference books are on the 2nd floor.
You can browse through the call number ranges:
| BF 637.C6 | Counseling, Psychology |
| L-LT | Education |
| LB 1027.5-1027.8 | Educational psychology |
| LB 1027.55 | School psychology |
| LB 1027.6 | Computer assisted counseling |
| LB 1051-1091 | Educational psychology |
| LB 1620.4-1620.53 | Counseling in secondary education |
| LB 1731.75 | Student counselors--Training of |
| LB 3013.6 | School psychologists |
| LC 65-67.8 | Social aspects of education |
| LC 189+ | Sociology of education |
| LC 1048.P47 | Counseling in vocational education |
| LC 1099-1099.5 | Multicultural education |
| LC 4700.4+ | Learning disabled children and youth |
| LC 5225.C68 | Counseling in adult education |
| RC 466 | Mental health counseling |
For additional assistance in using the online catalog, contact Ask a Librarian.
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.
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| Database | Description | Access |
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| Child Abuse and Neglect Databases | Contains over 32,000 records on child abuse and neglect and child welfare issues. You can search using keywords, authors' names, and publication year. | Access: Web |
| Education Research Abstracts (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: Taylor and Francis |
| 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 |
| ERIC via EBSCOhost | Includes links to ERDS and some full-text. | Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| Exceptional Child Education Resources (1970-present) | 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 |
| HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments, 1985-2002 | Information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, tests) in health, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. | Vendor: OVID |
| 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 |
| PsycINFO, 1983-present | Indexes over 1200 English language psychology journals, including educational psychology with abstracts only. | Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| Social Sciences Abstracts, 1983-present. Abstracts from 1994- | Indexes English language periodicals in anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, economics, family studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law and criminology, minority studies, public administration, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare. Some full text. | Vendor: FirstSearch |
| Social Sciences Citation Index | Indexes international literature in the social, behavioral, and related sciences. | Vendor: ISI |
| 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 |
| Substance Abuse and Mental Health Archives | USE OF SAMHDA DATA MAY REQUIRE STATISTICAL PROCESSING SOFTWARE AND GZIP DECOMPRESSION SOFTWARE. Direct-download access and online data analysis for quantitative data sets archived by ICPSR on substance abuse and mental health in the U.S. Topics covered include drugs, tobacco, and alcohol, and their use, insurance coverage, treatment, illegal activities, and relevant demographic, health, and mental health data. Major studies archived include Drug Abuse Warning Network, Monitoring the Future, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, National Pregnancy and Health Survey, Treatment Episode Data Set, and National Youth Survey | Access: Web |
| General indexes that relate to school/mental health counseling include: | ||
| Academic Search Premier (1984-present) | Provides full text for nearly 1,700 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more. This database is updated on a daily basis. | Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography (1927-1999 bound) | Indexes journals in education, psychology, sociology and pediatrics. Categories are biomedicine and health, social sociology and personality. | Access: Paper. |
| Dissertation Abstracts (1861-present) | 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 |
| Educator's Reference Desk | From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. | Vendor: Web |
| ERIC via Web | Free access is also available to the ERIC Thesaurus | Vendor: DOE |
| 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: ERIC |
| 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: Infotrac |
| InfoTrac Onefile (1980-present) | Provides coverage of articles, many full-text, from more than 6,000 scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals including 3,000 full-text titles. Subject coverage includes humanities, social sciences, general sciences, and current events. | Vendor: Gale |
| Kraus Curriculum Development Library | Collects, reprints (with the permission of the copyright holders) on microfiche and indexes local, district, state, regional and national curricula. These curricula are selected from a variety of issuing agencies: schools, local districts, state departments of education, not for profit groups, educational foundations, departments or special projects within these groups. | Access: Microfiche LB1570.K7 |
| 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 |
| 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, literacy, and language research. Some full-text journal articles. | Vendor: CSA |
| MediaSleuth | Based on the NICEM Audio Visual Database, MediaSlueth is a Catalog to non-print media supporting all levels of education and instruction. | Vendor: NICEM |
| Social Sciences, 1969-present. | Covers over 4000 journals, newsletters, and other publications in psychology and related fields. | 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 |
| Wilson Select now known as OmniFile Full Text Mega (1994-present) | Indexes & abstracts plus full text for articles from 1,350+ general, humanities, business, science & social science periodicals. (Full text is text only, no images.) Subset of the Wilson Indexes to Journal Articles with full text for every article. | Vendor: Wilson |
| WorldCat (before 1000 B.C.-present) | Provides bibliographic citations and library locations for books and other materials worldwide. Click on World Cat to bring up the database. | Vendor: FirstSearch |
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:
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.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.
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.
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:
Citing Resources for Papers/Research:
Prepared by: Terrie Sypolt, Reference Librarian
Last update: 28 June 2007
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