Research Guides: EDC 760: Adolescent Literacy in the Disciplines: Articles &amp; Databases

Overview

This page lists and describes articles and databases available for EDC 760: Adolescent Literacy in the Disciplines research at the Salem State University Library. If you access a title from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter a username and password. Your username and password are the same as those used for SSU email and Navigator. Go to A-Z Database List for a full list of library databases.

Accessing Library Databases

Literature Databases

Biography
Provides biographical information drawn from reference works, magazine, newspaper and journal articles, audio and video clips on figures from ancient times to the present. Full-text. View tutorial:
Literature Criticism
The full text of over 190,000 essays providing criticism of literature from around the world, in all genres, and from all time periods from antiquity to contemporary emerging authors. The essays discuss individual authors and their works, literary movements and topics, and the social, political, and historical background that provides contextual perspective for the study of literature. Our access provides access to August, 2016.
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
NoveList Plus
NoveList Plus is an online readers’ advisory resource with over 200,000 fiction and readable nonfiction and audiobook titles, for children, teens and adults. View tutorial:

Education Databases

Education Database
Abstracts and indexing of over 900 education journals, many in full-text.
Education Research Complete
Provides full-text access to more than 750 journals, 100 books, and conference papers on all aspects and levels of education since 1983 with monthly updates. Particularly useful for Education and Social Sciences. This database includes the database Education Abstracts.
ERIC - EBSCO
Provides full-text access to articles published from ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) since 1966 with monthly updates. Particularly useful for Education and Social Sciences. ERIC EBSCO contains full-text ERIC documents (past 5 years) and Digests. View tutorial:
ERIC - ProQuest
Provides full-text access to articles published from ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) since 1966 with monthly updates. Particularly useful for Education and Social Sciences.
Professional Development Collection
Provides current full-text access to over 240 journals for professional educators. Particularly useful for Education and Social Sciences.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides full-text access to over 270 popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. Particularly useful for Education and Social Sciences.

Type of Periodicals

Scholarly (Primary, Peer-Reviewed.)

For academics. Scholarly research in the field. Contains Literature Review, Methods, Charts.

Example: Journal of Food Science, New England Journal of Medicine

Popular (Secondary)

For general public. Personalities, news, general interest articles.

Example: People, Sports Illustrated

Trade

For industry, professionals. Trends, products for industry.

Example: MacWorld, Public Management

List of Journals

Find journals, magazines, and newspapers by title by using our periodicals directory. The library has a wide range of journals, magazines, and newspapers in print or online through databases.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Online version of the print publication, Chronicle of Higher Education. Includes job postings. Coverage: Current year.

Can't Access Full-Text Articles?

Inter-Library Loan is a great way to get pretty much anything you want from any library in the world.

You just need to fill in an easy online form and the librarians will do the work for you.

Enter '0' in the payment field.

The item will generally get to you within a few days - books will need to be collected from the library and articles will normally be e-mailed to you as a PDF.