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Child and Family Studies Databases/eResources

“Articles, Books, and More”

Use the library’s Discovery Service to retrieve BILLIONS of journal articles, books, book chapters, entries in reference resources (etc.) from thousands of individual databases. Type in your search terms and then select “Articles, Books, and More” from the drop-down menu.

Reference Resources

Oxford Reference – made up of over 400 individual reference works, several of which could be useful in this field, including Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature.

Credo Reference  – over 1k reference works in all subject areas, including such relevant titles as Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies, Sage Handbook of Domestic Violence, Encyclopedia of Adolescence, and Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Britannica Academic – a general encyclopedia intended for college students

Gale in Context: Biography – information about notable people, both contemporary and historical, from a wide range of sources, such as biographical dictionaries, magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.

Books

Converse – to find books, both print and electronic, in Converse’s Mickel Library, go to our Discovery Service type your terms in the search box, and select “Converse Catalog.”

PASCAL Delivers – to find books, both print and electronic, in South Carolina’s college/university libraries, go to our Discovery Service, type your terms in the search box, and select “PASCAL Delivers.” You can borrow these books by signing in and following the instructions to “Request via PASCAL Delivers.”

WorldCat – records for millions of books in thousands of libraries; most of these are “borrow-able” through our Interlibrary Loan Service.

Periodical Article Databases

Subject-Specific

ERIC [Educational Resources Information Center]– probably the most comprehensive database in education specifically and K-12-age children and adolescents in general; covers thousands of periodicals and other resources focusing on the field of education and other social sciences, but compared to many other periodical articles databases, does NOT provide a high percentage of full-text journal articles.

PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES– the former indexes over 2k journals related to psychology, and the latter provides full-text articles from around 100 journals published by the American Psychological Association.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection – full-text articles from almost 400 journals in the social sciences.

Social Sciences Full Text – full-text articles and citations to articles in core journals in economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc.

Professional Development Collection – complete articles from over 500 journals in education.

Education Full Text – indexes almost 800 journals in education and provides full-text articles from over 350 of these journals.

General

Academic Search Complete – one of the world’s largest databases of academic journals and magazines on all subjects; indexes over 12k titles and provides complete articles from over 8k of these periodical titles.

Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega – indexes and often provides complete articles from hundreds of popular magazines.

Resources for K-12 Students

DISCUS, South Carolina’s virtual library provides dozens of databases designed for K-12 students: encyclopedias, magazines, eBooks, and various kinds of unique resources. (If you are prompted for login credentials, please use the Ask a Librarian service to request them.)

Periodicals Available at Converse

Periodicals by Title – Key in the first few words or all of a periodical’s title (NOT the title of the article itself) to retrieve a listing of periodicals the library owns in either electronic or print/physical format.

Interlibrary Loan

To request books held by South Carolina college/university libraries, go to our Discovery Service, key in your terms and select “PASCAL Delivers,” click on the book you would like to borrow, sign in, and click on “Request via PASCAL Delivers.”

To request articles and other non-book materials, as well as books NOT held by South Carolina college/university libraries, go to Interlibrary Loan and select the correct form.