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Websites

Librarian - Bernice Wright

Email: bwright@sfasu.edu
Phone: (936) 468-1528
Office: 202d
Appointments Available

General Databases

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.

Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.

 

Subject Databases

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Business and Education The Directory assists you in selecting those journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. The index in each Directory helps you match the characteristics of your manuscript to the topic areas the journal emphasizes, the type of review process, acceptance rate and number of internal and external reviewers.

CINAHL with full text (Ebsco) offers full text access to nursing and allied health journals.

ERIC (Ebsco) provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

ERIC (IES) is a digital library of education-related resources, including journal and non-journal literature with some available in full text format.

Health Reference Center (1996 - Present) provides indexing for magazine and journal articles, and pamphlets dealing with personal and allied heath, medicine, and nursing. Many of the articles are available in full-text format.

Medline (FirstSearch) is a database that covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. There is no full text access, but most records include substantial abstracts.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership . Coverage begins with Volume 9 to present.

PsycINFO (Ebsco) indexes and abstracts books and book chapters in English, and 1,300+ journals in over 20 languages in the field of psychology.

Social Work Abstracts (Ebsco) provides abstracts for articles, dealing with the field of social work, in English-language periodicals.

Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.

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E-Text

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.

Online Books: Social Service, Welfare, Criminology

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Websites

Special Education Sites

Buros Center for Testing

Council for Exceptional Children
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted.

Disabilities Studies and Services Center
The Disabilities Studies and Services Center (DSSC) is a department of the Academy for Educational Development (AED). The Academy for Educational Development (AED) is an independent, nonprofit service organization committed to addressing human development needs in the United States and throughout the world.

ERIC Clearinghouse for Disabilities and Gifted Education

Rehabilitation Sites

Texas Rehabilitation Commission
The Texas Rehabilitation Commission (TRC), created in 1969, is designated as the state's principal authority on the vocational rehabilitation of Texans with disabilities, except persons with visual impairments and the legally blind. The Commission's main purpose is to assist people with disabilities to participate in their communities by achieving employment of choice, living as independently as possible and accessing high quality services.

The Arc Home Page
The national organization of and for people with mental retardation and related disabilities and their families.

Goodwill Industries
One of the world's largest nonprofit providers of employment and training services for people with disabilities and other disadvantaging conditions such as welfare dependency, illiteracy, criminal history and homelessness.

National Spinal Cord Injury Association
(NSCIA) source for statistics, information on facilities, treatment, research, etc. Provides links to other internet sites.

Brain Injury Association of Texas (BIATX)
Public service organization strives to develop programs for public awareness and education, to support research and rehabilitation and to provide family guidance.

National Council on Disabilities
An independent federal agency making recommendations to the President and Congress on issues affecting 54 million Americans with disabilities.

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Includes Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) administers programs for disabled children & adults from birth through age 21.

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Organization comprised of parents of children who are deaf and hard of hearing, adults with hearing loss, and professionals who serve children with hearing loss

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

National Eye Institute,
Part of NIH, supports more than 80 percent of the vision research conducted in the United States

TestLink
ETS Test Collection established to make information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers.

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