Research Guides: Autism: Introduction

Finding peer-reviewed articles

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database indexes over 13,000 journals and provides full-text for 4,700 journals.
Education Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from over 1,700 education-related journals, with indexing for thousands more journals, books, and conference papers back to 1929.
Educational Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles related to educational administration and leadership back to 1966.
ERIC via FirstSearch This link opens in a new window
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Covers all areas of education and education-related aspects of other disciplines. "ED" documents (1994-present) may be available in full-text online.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Indexes nearly 300 periodicals covering education topics such as: Assessment, Best Practices, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Literacy Standards, and School Administration.
This database is also freely accessible at this alternate link: http://www.teacherreference.com

Finding opinions

CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window
Addresses controversial topics in a balanced, unbiased manner, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Examines social issues from a variety of sources: pro and con viewpoint articles; full-text articles from magazines, academic journals, and newspapers; statistics and more.
Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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Covers over 300 controversial topics, each with a background overview and pro/con arguments.
Lexis Nexis Academic NOW NexisUNI This link opens in a new window
LEXIS NEXIS Academic is now NEXIS UNI

Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Finding online videos

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons, giving libraries a high return on investment.

Finding curriculum resources

Looking for juvenile literature or professional literature related to a particular subject area and reading level? This information and more is readily available through Children's Literature Comprehensive Database.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 300,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's and young adult books. Includes information about book awards, reading measurement programs, best book lists, and state reading lists.

You may also be interested in looking at Curriculum Standards by state.