Key Academic Journals & Collections
- Childhood
- Children & Society
- Children's Geographies
- Children's Legal Rights Journal
- Global Studies of Childhood
- Journal of Childhood Studies
- Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (JHCY)
- International Journal of Children's Rights
- Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies
- Sage Encyclopedia of Childhood Studies
Periodical Databases
Periodical databases aggregate articles from hundreds or thousands of individual journals, magazines, newspapers, and other sources, and each database may contain millions of articles. You can search the databases for topics of interest using keyword, author, title, and subject searches, and can limit to specific periodicals, by date, and by peer-review.
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Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window Multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
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Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (Firefox Browser Recommended) This link opens in a new window Reviews of PreK-12 media of all types, including more than 3 million titles and more than 50 professional review sources, and more than 850 national and international young adult and children's book awards, and thousands of regional, state, and national best books lists.
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Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window Full text for more than 1,300 education journals, 540 books, and 2,300 education-related conference papers. Indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 journals. Covers the areas of curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Subjects include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Gale's InterLink technology intelligently connects contextually-relevant results from your library's eBook collection on GVRL within articles in a user's search results. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window A freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
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SocIndex with Full Text This link opens in a new window Full text for more than 650 journals and magazines, including more than 620 peer-reviewed journals and 320 non-embargoed journals. Covers a broad range of studies, including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies, and social work. Abstracts date back to 1895.
Discovery Search
Discovery Search lets you search multiple databases simultaneously, including journal, magazine, and newspaper databases, the library catalog, WorldCat, and more.
Search tip: When you search Discovery, you are searching over 200 databases and results will include books, articles, reports, dissertations, and other kinds of resources. Use the filters at the top of the resulting search page (after you've done your initial search in the box here) to limit to specific kinds of resources, e.g., peer-reviewed articles.