When looking for scholarly articles, remember to check the box labeled PEER-REVIEWED or REFEREED on the database search page.
Locate the Full-Text of an Article in a Database:
1. Check for PDF icon on article record in database search results. If not available,
2. Click on "Search for Full-Text" to check for article link or request via InterLibrary Loan.
Locate the Full-Text of Article from a Citation:
Click on the Journals by Title button on the library homepage to search for the name a specific journal. The results will indicate TCNJ subscriptions, both print and electronic.
Research Databases assign Subject Headings to each article. SUBJECT searching techniques will provide focused search results.
Use the ERIC Thesaurus to look up official ERIC search terms, known as DESCRIPTORS.
The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors (Thesaurus) is a controlled vocabulary - a carefully selected list of education-related words and phrases assigned to ERIC records to organize them by subject and make them easier to retrieve through a search. Searching by Descriptors involves selecting relevant terms from this controlled vocabulary to locate information on your topic.
ERIC provides access to scholarly educational literature and to ERIC Documents. This resource from the U.S. Dept. of Education contains over 1.4 million records for article citations and abstracts from education journals, together with links to many thousands of full-text documents (books, papers, reports, and more) from ERIC back to 1966. ERIC actively indexes more than 1,100 journals (90% peer-reviewed).
The most comprehensive international database of psychology. Provides citations and abstracts from the academic, research and practice literature in psychology, and includes materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work and criminology. Indexes journals, books and book chapters, dissertations and technical reports.
Indexes and provides citations and abstracts from periodicals and other materials in nursing and allied health, as well as relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioral sciences, education and consumer health.
Provides access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine’s database of bibliographic citations and abstracts for the biomedical sciences, including medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems and preclinical sciences. Also provides access and links to the integrated molecular biology databases maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a large collection of peer-reviewed full-text journals, the database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
American Annals of the Deaf
Communication Disorders Quarterly
Journal of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research
Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
Sign Language Studies
Volta Review
Young Exceptional Children (print only, indexed in ERIC)
Journal of Special Education
Journal of Special Education Technology