Child Development 134  -  Glena Crumal
 

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created by Kathie Lewis 5/26/09

Reference Books:

Online Reference Books

Gale Virtual Reference Library provides access to 200 reference books. All the books are full-text and cover a wide variety of topics including art, science, literature and much more. All 200 titles can be searched simultaneously or individual titles may be selected.

CredoReference provides full-text reference books on a wide variety of subjects

NetLibrary  has over 6000 eBooks (books in electronic format available online and in full-text. To access from off-campus you must create a password while on campus. CREATE REMOTE ACCESS ACCOUNT

Print Reference Books

The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse    R 362.76 C594
Violence in America     R 303.6 V795
Encyclopedia of Family Life    R 306.85 En56
Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development    R 305.231  En56

Books that can be borrowed from the library

COS Book Catalog

 

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

ProQuest is a mega-database that contains 17 databases including: newspapers and magazine/journals

Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac) provides articles from more than 500 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications,

NewsBank is a full-text database that covers Fresno Bee and 28 America News Magazines (Newsweek, Time, Teen People, US News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, Popular Science, Parenting, Money, Life, Real Simple, Fortune, Family Life, Entertainment Weekly, etc.)  

SIRS (Social Issues Research Series) contains all full-text articles from a variety of newspaper and magazines covering current social issues.

Search these databases using key words.  

"child abuse"                                                    infanticide                                            "family violence"

"child abuse" and prevention                         "child neglect"                                      "child abuse" and investigation               

sexual and "child abuse"                                "cycle of abuse"                                    "children's rights"

physical and "child abuse"                            "child abuse" and reporting                "child care" and abuse

laws and "child abuse"                                    "child molestation"

 

Web Sites

ChildHelp:   a non-profit organization   http://www.childhelp.org/2009/home

The U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/childabuse.html

Prevent Child Abuse America: a non-profit organization   http://www.preventchildabuse.org/index.shtml

California Department of Public Health:  http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/default.aspx    use the search box for information on child abuse

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