Early Education & Family Studies

Magazine Articles Online (EBSCOhost)
Several magazine article databases are available through EBSCOhost. In each case some of the articles will be available in full text (the whole article). Others will have a summary only, with details about where to find the complete article. You can choose one database or search several at once. Education students might try:

MasterFILE Premier
Academic Search Elite
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)

Journals

Browse full-text articles in these online journals available through the library's databases:

Child Development (03/01/1930 - present, with a 12-month delay)
Early Child Development and Care (02/01/2002 - present, with a 12-month delay)
Early Childhood Education Journal (03/01/1997 - present, with a 12-month delay)
Early Childhood Today (08/01/200 - present)
Exceptional Children (01/01/2001 - present)
Infant & Child Development (03/01/1999 - present, with a 6-month delay)

PCC also subscribes to these paper journals:

For journals not owned by PCC, consult ORULS to see if they are available at another local library. You can then go to that library and photocopy the article. If the item you need is not available in the Portland area, you might be able to get it through interlibrary loan.

Websites

Earlychildhood NEWS
http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/default.aspx
Contains articles, activities and craft ideas and links to other web sites of interest

ERIC Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting
http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/
Includes research on child development and access to publications such as ERIC digests.

Education Week on the Web
http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
Contains articles from Education Week and Teacher Magazine , information on "hot topics" in education and current newspaper articles

Education World - Early Childhood Community
http://www.educationworld.com/a_earlychildhood/
Includes curriculum ideas, lesson plans, articles and links to relevant education web sites.

Association for Childhood Education International
http://www.acei.org/

Council for Exceptional Children: The Division for Early Childhood
http://www.dec-sped.org/

High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
http://www.highscope.org/

NAEYC
http://www.naeyc.org/
National Association for the Education of Young Children

North American Montessori Teachers' Association
http://www.montessori-namta.org/NAMTA/index.html

Citing Your Sources

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