Coverage on a wide range of topics. Includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities.
Coverage on a wide range of topics. Includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more. Academic Search Complete also offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency.
Provided by the American Psychological Association, APA PsycINFO offers access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. When you search APA PsycINFO, you are also searching the ProQuest Psychology Database and the APA PsycARTICLES database.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, it is essential tool for education researchers of all kinds.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, government documents, reports, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Each ERIC record is assigned a unique accession number in the collection. These are also known as the ERIC Document Number (ED Number) and ERIC Journal Number (EJ Number).
EJ Numbers – Refer to articles published in education journals
ED Numbers – Refer to education documents such as teaching guides, research reports, bibliographies, issue papers, instructional materials, and test and evaluation instruments.
ED Numbers are classified as levels 1-3.
·Level 1 - Reproducible in paper and microfiche and since 1993 in electronic format; materials issued from January 1993 - July 2004 are available at no cost through http://www.eric.ed.gov
·Level 2 - Reproducible in microfiche; full-text is no longer available through ERIC, but records remain part of the database. Available through Hekman Library.
·Level 3 - Not reproducible; records remain part of the database
Note: we do have a collection of ERIC documents (ED) in microfiche at Hekman Library from 1966-2004 (ED010000-ED483046). The cabinets containing the ERIC fiche and the equipment to read them (and make copies or scans) are on the 2nd floor of the library, facing the Cayvan area. (Make sure you note the ED# from your ERIC search as the fiche are organized by that number.)
JSTOR is a database consisting of full-text articles from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals from nearly every discipline taught at Calvin. Coverage for each journal begins with the first volume, with coverage ending for most titles three and five years ago. A growing number of journals now have coverage up to the present.
CINAHL provides indexing for journals about nursing and related fields. It offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and more.
CINAHL Database provides the top nursing and allied health literature available, including over 5,300 nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. In addition, CINAHL Database has health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters, legal cases, research instruments, and clinical trials. Not only is it an authoritative, specialized nursing resource, it is equipped with powerful search tools, including the CINAHL Subject Headings thesarus, which follows a similar structure to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) system. This database covers sources dating from 1937 to present day.
You can search in the library catalog for books on disabilities and find them in many different locations around the library. If you're stuck in your keyword search, try a subject search instead, using "disabilities" or "people with disabilities." You could also just go and look at the shelves in these call number sections to see what you can find:
Need a some more explanation on how call numbers work? Check out the tutorial on Finding Books on the next tab!