Early Childhood Education Resources

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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. 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:

BF719-720	Infant psychology
BF721 - 723	Child psychology
HQ767.8 – 792.2 LB1101 - 1139 RJ131-137	Child development (sociological aspects) Child development (education) Child development (pediatrics)
HV851-861	Day care centers
LB1139.2-1139.4	Early childhood education
LB1140-1140.5	Preschool education (includes infant education)
LB1141 -1489	Kindergarten
LB1501-1549	Primary education
LB1555-1602	Elementary or Public school education
LB1733 - 1775.5	Early childhood teachers
LC1099	Multicultural education
LC3707-3715; LC3725 LC3728	Bilingual education general Bilingual education elementary schools or public edu Training teachers
MT920 – 925	Kindergarten music
RJ61 RJ101-103 HQ774 RJ134	Infants care Popular Infants care General works Social development of infants Pediatrics

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 .

Some useful LC subject headings:

Ability in children Bilingualism in education Child care Child development Child psychology Children with disabilities Education (Preschool) Cognition in children Day care centers

Early childhood education Early childhood teachers Education Preschool Education Primary English Language—Study and Teaching Elementary—Foreign Speakers Infants Kindergarten Kindergarten teachers

Montessori method of education Motor ability in children Nursery schools Object teaching Perception in children Play groups Preschool tests Toddlers

Journal Databases/Indexes for Early Childhood Education Topics:

Database	Description	Access
Education 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: FirstSearch
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.	Vendor: EBSCOhost
Eric Thesaurus	Controlled vocabulary for the ERIC database.	Access: Web
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
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
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
Academic Search Premier	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
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
Biography Resource Center	This database combines biographies from respected Gale Group sources with full-text articles from approximately 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on nearly one million people.	Vendor: Gale
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
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database	Children’s lists including reviews.	Vendor: Children's List
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
ERIC via Web	Free access is also available to the ERIC Thesaurus	Vendor: DOE
ERIC via First Search	Indexes both current journals (CIJE) and numerous other educational resources such as Resources in Education (RIE).	Vendor: First Search
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	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
LexisNexis Academic	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
LexisNexis Statistical	Indexing, abstracting and some full-text statistical information produced by the federal government, state governments, and privately published sources.  Includes some international intergovernmental statistical sources.	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.  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
OmniFile Full Text Mega	Indexes & abstracts plus full text for articles from 1,350+ general, humanities, business, science & social science periodicals.	Vendor: Wilson
WorldCat	Provides bibliographic citations and library locations for books and other materials worldwide. Click on World Cat to bring up the database.	Vendor: FirstSearch

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:
Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood	http://www.wiu.edu/users/mimacp/wiu/
Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement	http://www.ciera.org/
EduPuppy	http://www.edupuppy.com/
Early Childhood.com	http://www.earlychildhood.com/
Early Childhood Education on Line	http://www.umaine.edu/eceol/
Early Childhood Educator’s Resource Page	http://eceresources.iwarp.com/
Edvisors.com	http://www.edvisors.com/Early_Childhood/index.html
Idea Box	http://www.theideabox.com/
Perpetual Preschool	http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
Reading Pathfinder	http://readingpath.org/
School Days	http://www.kinderkorner.com/
Technology and Young Children	http://www.techandyoungchildren.org/index.shtml
Child Development
Early Childhood Development (World Bank)	http://www.worldbank.org/children/
Kindergarten
The Chalkboard	http://members.tripod.com/~Patricia_F/
Kindergarten Connection	http://www.kconnect.com/
Kindergarten Kafe	http://www.kkafe.net/
A World of Kindergartens	http://www.coe.iup.edu/worldofkindergarten/
Organizations
Association for Childhood Education International	http://www.udel.edu/bateman/acei/
Division of Early Childhood for the Council for Exceptional Children	http://www.dec-sped.org/
Florida Department of Education	http://www.firn.edu/doe/doehome.htm
National Association for Child Development
National Association for the Education of Young Children	http://www.naeyc.org/default.htm
National Center for Early Development & Learning	http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/
National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology Media and Materials	http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/
National Child Care Information Center	http://nccic.org/
National Head Start Association	http://www.nhsa.org/
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development	http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
U.S. Department of Education	http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp
Special Education
LDOnline	http://www.ldonline.org/index.html
Preschoolers: Learning and Other Disabilities	http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/preschoolers.disabilities.html
School Psychology Resources Online	http://www.bcpl.net/~sandyste/school_psych.html
Special Education Resources on the Internet	http://seriweb.com/

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
• Documentation Guide APA

Prepared by:  Terrie Sypolt,  Reference Librarian

Last update:28 July 2008