This guide gives you an overview of recommended sources for pedagogical sciences (education and child studies): databases to find literature and reference works to orientate on a specific topic.
Please use the tabs at the left to find information for your research and interest. If you have any questions or comments about this guide, or need further help with using this guide or your area of research, please let me know!
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Below is a list of e-book packages for the field of education and child studies: some are existing licenses, some packages are available because the publisher is now giving everyone access to its e-books.
If you are looking for a specific title, it's better to use sEURch, because there all publishers are covered. For more discipline specific approaches (like psychology, health policy and management, or sociology, etc.) please have a look at the other available libguides on the library website.
For teachers: if you are looking for online access to a specific book, please let me know, then I can check the available options.
Full-text access to academic journals and e-books published by Cambridge University Press.
Multidisciplinary archive of full-text articles of the most important academic journals. Also contains a large collection of ebooks (book chapters) and primary source materials.
Date range: In general journals have been indexed from the first issue. Please note that for most journals the last three to five years are not available via JSTOR (the moving wall embargo).
The EUR subscribes to the collections
- Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VI, VII and IX
- Business I
- Health & General Sciences
Oxford Handbooks Online offers access to a selection of handbooks, published by Oxford University Press, in the subject categories Business and Management, Economics and Finance, History, Media Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. Each handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship.
The EUR has access to the following collections:
Besides these collections, the Library also has access to a small number of individual titles titles from other years or in other subjects.
Collection of e-books published by the American Psychological Association (APA) in psychology and related fields.
PsycBooks includes the Encyclopedia of Psychology, books published by the American Psychological Association (APA), including the APA Handbooks in Psychology, and classic resources in psychology. Excluded are APA Style products, Magination Press children's titles, APA LifeTools trade book titles and textbooks.
Platform: Ovid
Date range: 1806 - present
Related databases: Oxford Scholarship Online Psychology; Springer eBooks: Behavioral Sciences (2005-2009 and 2011-2015) and Springer eBooks: Behavioral Science and Psychology (2016-2023)
Access to full-text academic journals and series and to e-books, published by Springer and Palgrave. Also the Dutch health care collection of Bohn Stafleu van Loghum is included.
The EUR doesn't have access to all e-books published by Springer. Access is limited to certain disciplines and years:
DSM-5 Library provides access to the DSM-5-TR, the fully revised text of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2013), published in 2022. The DSM is a resource for clinical practice and is used to diagnose and classify mental disorders.
Also available are the DSM-5, the DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, the DSM-5-TR Clinical Cases, the DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview and Guía de consulta de los criterios diagnósticos del DSM-5 (the Spanish Edition of the Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-5).
The previous editions of the DSM are not available online.
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