LibGuides: Child Development: Finding Articles

Finding Articles

The Library subscribes to online databases that provide access to full-text magazines, scholarly journals, newspaper articles, and eBooks. Since databases are subscriptions that contain copyrighted written materials, off-campus access is password protected. To search from home you will first need to log in using your MyVVC credentials. The following databases are suggested for Child Development research:

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
A multi-disciplinary database providing full-text articles for more than 6,600 magazines and scholarly journals, including full-text for nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed titles. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities.

After typing a search term, use the Select a Field option to refine your search:
Subject (searches subject terms within the database)
Abstract (searches terms within the article abstract)
All Text (search the entire article)
Under Limit your results check:
"Full-Text" for full-text articles only
"Scholarly Journals" for journal articles only
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) is an educational resource with a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers.
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete
Includes sources on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.
Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context
Provides a complete one-stop resource for information on social issues. Access controversial viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Tip: Click the Browse Issues link in the site navigation bar for an A-Z list of popular topics.
MasterFile Complete (EBSCOhost)
Offers a collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books, videos and other sources covering virtually every subject area of over 2,400 general interest periodicals/magazines dating as far back as 1917. Contains full-text reference books and primary source documents of from over 100,000 sources.

Popular magazines include:
The Atlantic
Better Homes and Gardens
Congressional Digest
Consumer Reports
Discover
Food & Wine
The Nation
The New Republic
New Scientist
Newsweek
People
Real Simple
Rolling Stone
Science News
Scientific American
Sky & Telescope
Sports Illustrated
TIME
MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCOhost)
Contains full-text for nearly 500 popular magazinez and e-books covering many subjects, including history, science and health. The collection is geared toward high school libraries but it is also a useful resource for college students majoring in education.
Primary Search (EBSCOhost)
Provides full-text for popular magazines suitable for elementary school students. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles) and date back as far as 1990. Great resource for college students taking education classes focusing on elementary grade levels.

Most popular children's magazines inculdes:
Cricket
Fun for Kidz
Highlights
Ranger Rick
Ranger Rick, Jr.
Scholastic News
Scout Life
Spider
Sports Illustrated Kids
Stone Soup
TIME for Kids
Zoobooks
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
Provides access to hundreds of full-text journals with strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

Journals

Below are journals related to Child Development found within our databases. Some of these journals may have a 12-18 month embargo on them. You can search the journal articles by year or simply search the entire journal.

Applied Developmental Science
The focus of the journal is the synthesis of research and application to promote positive development across the lifespan.
Child Development
Articles of interdisciplinary empirical research, theoretical articles and reviews that have theoretical implications for child developmental research selected through blind review.
Child Development Perspectives
Provides accessible, synthetic reports that summarize emerging trends or conclusions within various domains of developmental research, & to encourage multidisciplinary & international dialogue on a variety of topics in the developmental sciences.
Child Development Research
Covers topics in all areas of child development research.
Infant & Child Development
Publishes theoretical, empirical and methodological papers covering all aspects of psychological development during infancy and early childhood.
Journal of Cognition & Development
Contains articles on all aspects of cognitive development
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
Covers major reports of developmental research that generate authoritative new findings, fresh perspectives on conceptually significant issues, controversy and commentary on all aspects of child development for professionals in the field.
New Directions for Child & Adolescent Development
Provides scientific & scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues & concepts in the field of child & adolescent development.
Young Children (NAEYC) via JSTOR
Peer-reviewed journal that combines research and practice, Young Children supports educational excellence and focuses on meeting the needs of all children, birth through third grade.