Research Guides: Special Education Research: Introduction

Library Search

Finding peer-reviewed articles

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly business journals and other sources with full text for more than 2,300 journals. Also includes industry & market research reports and country reports. Covers all areas of business, including accounting & taxation, banking, finance & insurance, economics, human resources, management, marketing, operations management, and public administration.
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.
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.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,500 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase. This Government, Politics & Law HeinOnline 18-database package offers special collections on Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law and Women and the Law among others.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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Access to more than 500 full-text journals related to psychology, psychiatry, and related disciplines.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and abstracts to articles in journals, dissertations, and book chapters in all areas of psychology. Includes all articles from the PsycARTICLES database.
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 Digital Magazines

Flipster has a number of children's magazines, as well as a couple of teacher's guides, available to view digitally.

Click on the link below and select the "Family and Kids" category to see what is currently available.

Flipster This link opens in a new window
Flipster®, the next-gen digital newsstand now offers content across all of your favorite devices. With access to the top magazines combined with an easy to use interface, Flipster offers users a unique reading experience that can be enjoyed anytime, anywhere.
The link takes you to an Ebsco landing page of library subscriptions, scroll down for the link to Flipster.

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.

Curriculum Guides

Request Purchase & Interlibrary Loan

To request that the library purchase materials, please send me ( reevesr@unk.edu) the title, author, publisher and publication date information. I can't guarantee that the library will be able to make the purchase.

Interlibrary Loan

Special Education Research

Curriculum, OER, and Government Documents Librarian