Need a research article for Child Development?

If you need a journal article, you do not need Google!  To find a suitable article for this assignment, it is strongly recommended that you use the databases you have access to through the GALILEO initiative – your tax dollars at work! There are so many databases in GALILEO that have some child development content that it is difficult to go wrong.  Remember, you will have to have an activated library card and a password to access any GALILEO databases from off campus. 

Our favorites

Academic Search Complete and ProQuest Research Library are large databases made available to you through GALILEO that have significant amounts of relevant child development content.  You can easily limit your results by checking boxes on the search screen for full text material and/or scholarly journals.

CINAHL with full text and Health Source: Nursing – Academic Edition   Find these databases (as well as others related to health and medical topics under the  tab on the main page and then by choosing the Nursing & Allied Health option on the drop down menu.  These databases will also allow you to limit the articles by a number of different criteria.  These databases will contain many journals that will report studies of a medical nature.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection  This database is found by choosing the  tab on the main page and then Psychology from the drop down menu.  This is an Ebsco product, so it looks a great deal like Academic Search Premier and CINAHL and has the same functionality.

No idea what subject to choose?  Check your textbook for ideas.  If there is a Suggested Reading list at the end of a chapter, it might have some ideas that you find interesting.  Bibliographies found at the end of the book may also supply “keywords” – words you can use to search a database and find relevant information.  Feel free to leaf through such publications as Parents or Psychology Today or the newspaper or Time or Newsweek for ideas, but do remember that these are magazines – they are not scientific publications, not scholarly and definitely not peer-reviewed.

V. Horst 4/2006