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Library Guide for Child Development CCP 101: Child Development
Library Guide For Assignment # 3: Sources of Information on Child Development
Instructor: Sally Adler
Finding 5 articles about children or child development in popular magazines:
These articles can be any popular magazine that you find in our library, on the newsstand, or through the library's
research databases. Your instructor will also accept newspaper articles. For example, if you are reading
The Ann Arbor News and find an article about child development, that article can count as one of your five popular articles.
Perhaps the fastest way to find popular magazine articles about child development is to browse through these magazines or similar magazines in the library's print magazine collection:
Parents, Redbook, Working Woman, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, Time.
If looking through these print magazines doesn't work for you, a reference librarian can show you how to use General Reference Center Gold research database or Wilson Select research database to find electronic versions of popular magazine articles about
child development.
Finding 5 articles about children or child development in childcare provider trade journals:
These journals are read widely by those in the childcare provider field. Appropriate journals in the library's print collection are: Childhood Education, Educational Leadership, Early Childhood Today, Echange, Journal of Zero to Three, Mailbox, Teaching Tolerance, and YC: Young Children. In addition, Expanded Academic ASAP research database
can lead you to electronic versions of articles in Children Today and Hornbook. A reference librarian can help you use
Expanded Academic ASAP.
Finding 5 articles about children or child development in childcare provider research journals:
These research journals are read by those interested in sociology, psychology, and education as well as by childcare professionals. You will find the following titles in the library's print collection: Adolescence, Family Relations,
Journal of Marriage and the Family, Families In Society, Pediatrics, and JAMA (Journal of the
American Medical Association). If you have a paper copy of another journal in hand and would like to know if
it is a research journal, turn to the very front of the journal where submission guidelines are given. If the
journal uses the term peer-reviewed or refereed
or otherwise indicates that only articles selected by a
board of professionals in the field will be accepted, you are looking at a research journal.
To find electronic versions of articles in other childcare provider research journals, do a subject search in Expanded Academic ASAP
research database and limit your search to documents with full text and to peer-reviewed publications. A
reference librarian can help you with your search.
NOTE: If you use a research database to find your magazine or journal article, you must use the MLA or APA format
for research database articles; these formats are different from those for articles found in a paper magazine.
Copies of guides to both MLA and APA formats for articles from print magazines or from research databases are available at the
Reference Desk in the library and also on the library's website. A reference librarian can help you choose the correct format.
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