ECE 210: Early Childhood Education Principles: Search Library Databases

Library Article Databases are collections of articles from magazines, academic/scholarly journals, newspapers, e-books and more, that can be searched from one site. Libraries subscribe to article databases. 

The most efficient way to find a full text (entire) article versus a summary or abstract, is to use an article database.

Article databases include articles from a variety of journals and magazines. Type in a few keywords to see what kinds of articles you find.

• Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) * Full-text articles from leading journals. Coverage is multi-disciplinary and includes full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles; searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Updated daily. 1975 - present.

• ERIC - Education Resources Information Center (EBSCO) * Provides access to education journal articles and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index, dating back to 1966.

• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) *Provides information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods; offering full text coverage for nearly 560 journals.

Keyword Searches:

Tip #1: When searching for articles in a database, choose keywords instead of typing in a sentence or question.  

Tip #2: When developing keywords, identify main ideas, synonyms, and broader, narrower, or related terms. 

Online Research: Tips for Effective (Search) Strategies: This three minute video describes three important search tips that will save you precious time.

Young Children: (YC) Young Children is a peer-reviewed, professional journal published bimonthly by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC); issues are organized around "cluster" topics and issues in the field of early childhood education. This journal stopped publishing in 2022. However you can find historical and articles through 2022

• Instructions: Select the timeframe of journal issues you'd like to search. Then enter your keywords in the search box. (From off-campus sign in using your OneLogin credentials).

  • 1964 - 2001

  • 2001 - 2022

• On the left side of the screen select Creation Date to narrow your search results to the time frame you're looking for.