Comprehensive Web Pages
Electronic Reference Sources
Special Topics
Social Policy Analysis
Indexes
Style Manuals

See also Core Child Development print resources

Comprehensive Web Pages

• Child Study.net (http://childstudy.net/forum/)
• Children, Youth and Family Consortium (http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/)
• CYFERnet (http://www.cyfernet.org/)
• Early Childhood Care and Development (http://www.ecdgroup.com)
• Early Childhood Education On Line (http://www.umaine.edu/eceol/)
• Early Childhood Education from Yahoo (http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Early_Childhood_Education/)
• Early Childhood Research and Practice (http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/)
• GMU's Online Resources for Developmental Psychology (http://classweb.gmu.edu/classweb/awinsler/ordp/topic.html)
• National Child Care Information Center (http://www.nccic.org/cctopics.html)
• National Network for Child Care (http://www.nncc.org/)
• Research Forum at the National Center for Children in Poverty (http://www.researchforum.org/index.html)
• School Psychology Resources (http://www.schoolpsychology.net/)
• Tufts University Child & Family Web Guide (http://www.cfw.tufts.edu)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (http://www.acf.dhhs.gov)
• Youth & Children Resource Net (http://www.child.net)
• Zero to Three (http://www.zerotothree.org/)

Electronic Reference Sources

• Child Development [restricted to the HSU community]
• Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society [restricted to the HSU community]
• Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology [restricted to the HSU community]
• International Encyclopedia of  Marriage and Family [restricted to the HSU community]
• Learning and Memory [restricted to the HSU community]

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Special Topics

• American Women's History: Childhood (http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-child.html)
• Child Abuse (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/childabuse.html)
• Child Trends (http://www.childtrends.org/)
• Child Welfare League of America: Child Day Care (http://www.cwla.org/programs/daycare/default.htm)
• Childcare.gov (http://www.childcare.gov/)
• Children's Defense Fund Data (http://www.childrensdefense.org/data/default.aspx) - Data on population, family characteristics, health, child care, disabilities, youth development and childhood education.
• Children's Literature Web Guide (http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Edkbrown/)
• ChildStats.gov (www.childstats.gov/)
• Digest of Educational Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/digest02/)
• Dr. Mac's Amazing Behavior Management Advice Site (http://www.behavioradvisor.com/)
• Early Childhood Londitudinal Study (http://nces.ed.gov/ecls/Birth/studybrief.asp)
• ECRP: Early Childhood Research & Practice [an online journal] (http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/)
• Facts for Families - psychiatric disorders of children (http://www.aacap.org/info_families/index.htm)
• Family Resource.com (http://www.familyresource.com/)
• Family Village - a global community of diability related resources (http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlx)
• Healthwise - Go Ask Alice (http://www.alice.columbia.edu/)
• History of Childhood Readings (http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/HistoryofChildLit/childhood.html)
• H-Childhood (History of Childhood and Youth Discussion List) (http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~child)
• Idealist.org (http://www.idealist.org)
• Jean Piaget's Archive (http://www.unige.ch/piaget/Presentations/presentg.html)
• Jim Hopper's Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, Resources (http://www.jimhopper.com/abstats)
• Kids Count Data (http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/)
• National Child Care Information Center (http://nccic.org/)
• National Parent Information Network Virtual Library (http://www.npin.org/library.html)
• NLD (nonverbal learning disorder) on the web! (http://www.nldontheweb.org/)
• Parenthood Web (http://parenthoodweb.com)
• Positive Parenting.com (http://www.positiveparenting.com/index.html)
• Step Family Network (http://www.stepfamily.net/index.htm)
• Theories of Development (http://classweb.gmu.edu/awinsler/ordp/toc.html)
• The Theory into Practice Database (http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/index.html)
See also: HSU Library Research Guides: Children's Literature

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Social Policy Analysis

• Center for Law and Social Policy (http://www.clasp.org/)
• First Gov (http://firstgov.gov/)
• LexisNexis Academic [restricted to the HSU Community]
• Moving Ideas: An Electronic Policy Network (http://www.movingideas.org/)
• Multnomah County Library Homework Center: Social Issues (http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/sochc.html)
• Population Reference Bureau (http://www.prb.org/)
• Poverty Related Resources (http://www.irp.wisc.edu/links/category.htm)
• Public Policy Institute of California (http://www.ppic.org/main/home.asp)
• Research Forum at the National Center for Children in Poverty (http://www.researchforum.org/index.html)
• Second Harvest - Hunger (http://www.secondharvest.org/)

See also: HSU Primary Legal Materials for information on the location of print and electronic federal and California legal materials in this library.
See also: HSU Government Information

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Indexes

• Academic Search Elite [restricted to the HSU community] - This index also contains the full text of some child development journals.
• Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption [restricted to the HSU community]
• Child Care & Early Education Research Connections (http://www.childcareresearch.org/discover/index.jsp)
• Child Development & Adolescent Studies [restricted to the HSU community]
• Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography (abstr HQ 750 A1 C47)
• Children Now (http://www.childrennow.org)
• ERIC [restricted to the HSU community]
• Family & Society Studies Worldwide [restricted to the HSU community]
• Health and Psychosocial Instrument (HAPI) Test Database [restricted to the HSU community]
• Medline [restricted to the HSU community]
• Omnifile Full Text Mega [restricted to the HSU community]
• PsycArticles [restricted to the HSU community]
• PsycINFO [restricted to the HSU community]
  • Using PsycINFO for Psychological Research (http://library.humboldt.edu/infoservices/PsycInfo.pdf)
• Social SciSearch [restricted to the HSU community] - Use this index for citation searching to update seminal research!
• Social Services Abstracts [restricted to the HSU community]
• Sociological Abstracts [restricted to the HSU community]
• WorldCat [restricted to the HSU community] - Database of over 61 million books

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Style Manuals

• APA Style (http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html)
• APA Citation Format (http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/citation/apa.html)
• APA Style Essentials (http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.cfm?doc_id=796)
• Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/)
• Citation Styles for Research Papers (http://www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm)
• Owl at Purdue: Using APA Style (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html)
• University of Washington Psychology Writing Guide (http://web.psych.washington.edu/writingcenter/writingguides.html)


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