SJSU Research Guides: ChAD 106: Concepts of Childhood: Course Resources

Secondary databases for finding journal articles

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Scholarly literature search engine. Set your library preferences: On the Google Scholar homepage, go to Scholar Preferences. At Library Links, locate San Jose State University. Add those links, then save the preferences.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
This abstract and citation database covers thousands of scholarly journals, books, and conference proceedings. Covering a broad range of disciplines, Scopus enables one to track, analyze, and visualize research. Output data at the institutional and author levels are available. Authors will find h-index, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), and citation counts helpful in demonstrating the impact of their work.
SocINDEX with FullText This link opens in a new window
A resource for core journals in sociology and related disciplines including criminology, ethnic studies and more. In addition to full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Offers access to the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800 serial publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. The database backfile dates to 1952.

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Subjects: Child & Adolescent Development, Engineering, Interdisciplinary Engineering

Primary databases for finding journal articles

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This database provides coverage of multidisciplinary full text academic journals that are peer reviewed and support scholarly research in key areas of academic study.
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers key areas of education and related fields of study, as well as educational specialties, administration, funding and more. Additionally, this database includes indexing for nearly 1,025 periodicals dating back to 1983. Education Full Text also features in-depth coverage of special education, with more than 50 journals dedicated to this important topic.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
ERIC via Ebsco This link opens in a new window
ERIC via Ebsco contains a variety of full text documents along with citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. ERIC via Ebsco can be combined with other Ebsco databases by using the Choose Databases tab. If your research involves a school setting, classroom learning, or issues pertaining to school-aged children, please consider using this database alongside PsycINFO.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
This resource, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database covers general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research.
PsycEXTRA This link opens in a new window
PsycEXTRA, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. Document types include technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. Extensive coverage of gray literature relating to psychology and the behavioral sciences.
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
This database covers journals in all areas of psychology. PsycINFO should be the first database you use when searching for scholarly, peer-reviewed articles relating to psychology. Articles are indexed using the official APA Thesaurus terms, which are searchable in the database Thesaurus. (Learn the key terms for your topic, and search the database using those terms)

Finding books and journal articles

Requesting books and journal articles not at SJSU library

Can't find what you're looking for in our Catalog? If so, then use Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) to special order your request.

Interlibrary Loan (sometimes called document delivery) is a service whereby SJSU Library patrons can borrow books, videos, DVDs, sound recordings, microfilm, or receive electronic copies of articles in journals that are owned by another library.

How to place a request:

Placing an Interlibrary Loan Request: First you will need an ILLiad account to place requests. To create an account, go to the ILLiad website and log in using your SJSUOne ID and password.
Request Limits: There are no request limits.
Cost: Most requests are free. SJSU Library does pay for most ILLiad costs but if a library has high lending fees, we will contact you in advance to confirm whether or not you are willing to pay the fees.
Waiting Period: In most cases, physical items such as books, videos, DVDs, sound recordings, and microfilms, are received in 7 to 10 business days. Electronic copies of articles usually take 2 to 3 business days. There is no guarantee that the requested material will be located.

International standards

Tip: when looking at statistics for a country, look to see what standard of measurements are being used.

Measurements in the United States use inches/feet, etc. Globally, centimeters, kilometers are used in the statistical tables. Here is a link for a converter table: http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/length/cm-to-inch.htm

Currency converters to the U.S. dollar can be found at https://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/