TECA 1311 @ NLC Library

Educating Young Children

Activity:

• Scholarly vs Popular
• Start your reseach today!
• Validation and Decision Accuracy of Early Numeracy Skill Indicators
• Winter Magic

HANDOUTS 

• Library Essentials -
• Using Online Databases -
• Developing a Search Strategy -
• Evaluating websites -  
• Citing Sources -  MSWord  PDF

Want books? Use:

ALAMO LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG 

• Early Childhood Qualitative Research
• Introduction to Early Childhood Education
• Early Child Development in the 21st Century: Profiles of Current Research Initiatives

Want articles? Use:

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

• Academic Onefile
• Academic Search Complete
• JSTOR
• Databases by Subject - Education 
  • ERIC Database
  • Professional Development Collection
  • Teacher Reference Center 

• Databases by Subject - Psychology
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  • PsycINFO

INTERNET SITES

• ERIC
• Early Childhood Research &  Practice 

• APA Style Official Website

• Duke University Libraries

• OWL @ Purdue

• Scribe's APA Research Style Crib Sheet

• Writing Center U. of Wisconsin Madison

• APA

SEARCH STRATEGIES

• Boolean - AND, OR, NOT
• Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
• Quotation marks for exact phrase
• Truncation - root + variants (*) 
• Database Limiters: date, publication type, type, peer-reviewed, etc.

OPTIONS FOR FULL-TEXT - Where is the actual article???

•  PDF or HTML in database
• A to Z Online Journal Locator
• IDB & ILL

NEED HELP? Contact Us!

Call: (210) 486-5388

Email: nlc-reference@alamo.edu

Library Instructor(s):  Kristin Johnson