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Child Development & Family Studies

Library Research Guide for CDFS students and faculty. Use this guide to find information in the library for Child Development and Family Studies research.

Seach these Databases for CDFS topics

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Academic Search Complete

Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database

ERIC (via EBSCO)

education journal articles, teaching guides, dissertations and theses, and books

Sociological Abstracts

International literature in sociology and related disciplines 1952 to date

SocINDEX Full Text

Anthropology, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, social work

PsycINFO

Psychology journals, dissertations, media, and books 1887 to present

More CDFS topic Databases

ComDisDome

Communications disorders literature including journal articles and books

Anthropology Plus

Social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore

Disability in the Modern World

Disability history and disability studies

Ethnic NewsWatch, 1959-present

Newspaper and periodical articles written by and about various ethnic groups in the United States

ETS TestLink: Test Collection Database

A database of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices

ScienceDirect

Elsevier's journals, covering sciences, health, and social sciences since 1995

Finding Search Terms

Some databases provide vocabulary to assist in conducting effective searches. These are excellent resources to review terms and discover related terminology. Look for the 'Subject Terms' or 'Thesaurus' links.

Google Scholar

Retrieve scholarly and peer-reviewed citations on any subject.

Tip: Use “Cited by” and “Related articles” to find additional articles.

Set up Library Links (search for CSULB) to access full text via CSULB

Google Scholar Search

A word on Bias

We all tend to live in our own bubbles these days, where our information sources echo back to us what we already know and are biased towards (Think For You page). 

Some resources are significantly more biased than others and can feed into skewed views of the world.

Reliability of sources is also very important.  Is the information presented true?

Here is a tool to help you find out about sources you may be accessing.map from link