Exceptional 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
LC 3950-4806.5	Exceptional children & youth. Special education
LC 3965	General works
LC 3969.4	Secondary education
LC 3969.45	Teacher training
LC 3969.5	Computer assisted instruction
LC 3976	Vocational education
LC 3991-4000	Gifted children & youth
LC 3993.218	Preschool education
LC 3993.22	Elementary & public school
LC 3993.23	Secondary education
LC 3993.25	Teacher training
LC 3993.265	Art. The arts
LC 3993.27	Language arts
LC 3993.3	Literature
LC 3993.5	Reading
LC 4001-40043	Handicapped children & youth
LC 4019.2	Preschool education
LC 4019.3	Early childhood education
LC 4019.7	Vocational education
LC 4019.8	Teacher training
LC 4051-4100.3	Socially handicapped children & youth
LC 4165-4184	Mentally ill children & youth
LC 4201-4243	Physically handicapped children & youth
LC 4601-4640.4	Mentally handicapped children & youth
LC4661-4700, A-Z	Slow learning children & youth
LC 4700.4-4706	Dyslexic children & youth
LC 4711.5-4713	Hyperactive children & youth
LC 4713.2-4713.5	Attention deficit disordered children & youth
LC 4714-4716	Aphasic children & youth
LC 4717-4719	Autistic children & youth
LC 4801-4803	Problem children & youth
LC 4806-4806.5	Children of prenatal substance abuse
LC 4812-4827	Handicapped adults
LC 4815-4815.42	Mentally handicapped adults
LC 4815.5A-4818	Learning disabled adults; slow learning adults
LC 4819-4821	Physically handicapped adults
LC 4822-4824	Socially handicapped adults
LC 4825-4827	Mentally ill adults

 

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 Exceptional Education Topics:

Database	Description	Access
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
Academic Universe (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: CIS/Lexis-Nexis
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	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
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 & 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	ERIC available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EBSCOhost, and the U.S. Department of Education site.	Access: EBSCOhost and CSA
ERIC--Educational Resources Information Center	The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. Free access is also available to the ERIC Thesaurus	Access: WWW
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
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
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
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
Psychology: A Sage Full Text Collection 1969-present.	Covers over 4000 journals, newsletters, and other publications in psychology and related fields.	Vendor: CSA
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, 1965-present	Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals. Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded are the primary indexes.	Vendor: ISI
WilsonWeb	Indexes & abstracts plus full text for articles from 1,350+ general, humanities, business, science & social science periodicals. (Full text is text only, no images.)	Vendor: H. W. 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:

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FULL CATALOG	JOURNALS/SERIALS	COURSE RESERVES	ONLINE RESOURCES	CHANGE DATABASES

 

Search For Keyword(s)
Keyword(s) Anywhere Author Keyword(s) Title Keyword(s) Subject Keyword(s)
	Exact Phrase? No Yes

Browse Organized Lists
Title begins with Author (last name, first) Subject Subject, Medical (MeSH) ----------------------------------------------- Call Number, LC/NLM Call Number, Dewey Decimal Call Number, SuDoc Call Number, Local Number, ISBN Number, ISSN Author, Personal Name Author, Corporate Name Author, Meeting Name Participant/Performer Title, Series Title, Uniform Subject, LC Subject, Children's Subject, Local Subject, Form/Genre Subject, Geographic Subject, Tracing --------------staff indexes---------------------- Number, System Number, Coden Number, LCCN Number, Music Publication Number, NOTIS Number, OCLC Number, GPO Item Number, SuDoc Class Cataloging Tickler Key Title URL Name with Title

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:

Exceptional Education Webliography	University of Central Florida, College of Education
Education Webliography	Ask a Librarian
Florida Department of Education	U.S. Department of Education - Publications
UCF Government Document Collection	Untangle the Web!
UCF’s Curriculum Materials Center	Internet Tools

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

Last update:19 November 2007