Search databases, books and journals for scholarly information on Early Childhood Intervention and Special Education.

1. Special Education / SPED 992
Early Childhood Intervention
Edwards Campus Spring Semester
2015

2. Dissertation Research Blog http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com
Library Home Page http://www.lib.ku.edu

3. Where’s the stuff: http://www.lib.ku.edu
Databases / Peer-review journals / Articles
Library Catalog / Books / e-Books
e-Journals / by subject or title words
Dissertations / World-wide or KU authored
Subject and Course Guides

4. http://www.lib.ku.edu
Research
by Subject
& Course
Guides

6. Education Resources has
more information at the
present time than Special
Education.

16. If the article wasn’t found:
Remember Interlibrary Loan
will help you find it.
Found 3 copies of the
article

19. One good article leads to more good articles. Don’t forget to look at the
References the author used to write this good article. And, take a look at the
articles that cited it. Copy and paste all the citations you think might be
relevant to your thesis. You don’t have to use them in your paper but if you
want them you’ll know where they are.

20. What did we just do?
Libraries Homepage: www.lib.ku.edu
Subject Guides: Education
Database: PsycINFO
Search: “early childhood intervention” AND “special education”
Selected an article
Looked at the articles that cited this article
Looked at the references at the end of the article itself
Read the full text article

21. What about Google Scholar?

28. Web of Science
is another good
database to use
for most
subjects,
including
education. 263
articles in WOS
sited this
article.

29. Books ?
E-Books?

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electronic
book?

38. Another book
search without
the “electronic
books”
designation.

39. Try
Not very
recent, so try
finding books
published in
the last 5
years.

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sent to the
Edwards
Campus for
you?

45. E-Journals

47. Best to look for
specific titles of
journals that you
have noticed in
your research or
that an instructor
has
recommended.

53. Databases for Dissertations

54. Most of the databases have dissertations included in the
collections they manage. Here are 2 specific databases that
cover only dissertations and theses:
1. Dissertations & Theses @ University of Kansas
Contains citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by the University of
Kansas and published in UMI's Dissertations Abstracts database, and full text of KU
dissertations published after 1996 and KU theses published after 2005.
2. ProQuest dissertations & theses
Provides online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are
available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations
dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the
ProQuest UMI database. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every
year.

55. http://www.lib.ku.edu

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60. Dissertations & Theses from the
University of Kansas
Libraries Homepage
http://lib.ku.edu
Articles and Databases

67. Questions?

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