Early Childhood Studies Library Research Guide  

To find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, try:

• Academic Search Premier 
• SIRS and
• Vocational Studies Premier. 

In Academic Search Premier or ProQuest, consider perfoming an Advanced Search to join two topics, such as

child

personality development

Take a look at YC: Young Children – a journal we subscribe to “in paper”  at the Santa Maria library.

When doing research on the internet remember to evaluate the websites you find. 

• Are they objective or do they just have one point of view? 

• Are they current? 

• Accurate? 

• Who created them? 

• Do they cover your subject in enough depth?

Use the library’s catalog to find books, videocassettes, and DVDs.  If a subject search doesn’t work, try a keyword search.  Perhaps browse call number areas such as:

BF - Psychology

         BF 700--723 Developmental (infant, child, adolescent) psychology

LA - History of education

LB – Theory and practice of education

              LB 1025-1050 – Teaching (principles and practice)

              LB 1101–1139 – Child study

              LB 1139.2–1139.5 – Early childhood education

              LB 1140–1140.5 - Preschool education. Nursery schools    

              LB 1141–1489 – Kindergarten

HQ - Family, marriage

              HQ 755-759 – Parents and parenting

              HQ 767-799 – Children, child development…   

Research Studies and More:

• Educator’s Reference Desk (www.eduref.org) – Try this one!
•  National Center for Early Development & Learning (www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/) 
• National Network for Child Care (http://www.nncc.org/) 
•  Children Now (www.childrennow.org) 
•  Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting (http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/pubs.html)
• MedlinePlus (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/parenting.html)

Children's Educational Activities:

• The Idea Box (www.theideabox.com) 
•  First-School – Preschool Activities and Crafts (www.first-school.ws/) 
• ABCTeach (http://abcteach.com/directory/childhood/) 
• Under5’s (www.underfives.co.uk) 
• Literacy Center. Net – The Early Childhood Education Network™ (www.literacycenter.net) 

General Web Searching:

• Try Open Directory Project  (http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Education/) or Yahoo (http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/) educational directories. 

Use the library catalog to find lots of fun and exciting children's books.