LibGuides: Children's Literature • Authors &amp; Illustrators: Databases

Archer Library Databases

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A great place to start your author research! These library databases include articles, book reviews, and author interviews. Use the Education Databases link in the drop down menu to view additional resources.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals
This database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Coverage Dates: 1984 –
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides coverage for a wide range of topics, including adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural education, secondary education, higher education, and distance education.
Also included are topics of religious education, instructional media, teaching methods, and school administration. Indexes over 770 periodicals dating back to 1983 and includes full text content from over 350 journals as far back as 1996. Dates covered: 1983-present.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education, including educational specialties, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related issues
Provides full text for over 1,400 journals plus indexing and abstracts for 2,300+ other journals. Includes full text for over 550 books, monographs, and numerous education-related conference papers. Dates covered: 1960s-present.
Electronic Journal Center (EJC) This link opens in a new window
OhioLINK’s Electronic Journal Center (EJC) contains over 32 million full-text articles in 10,000 journals from large publishers to small presses
Coverage spans the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Many of the library research databases contain citations linking to full-text articles in the EJC. Dates covered: 1800s-present.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of full-text education journals.
Includes over 700 abstracted/indexed journals (500+ of which are peer reviewed) and over 500 full-text journals (350+ of which are peer reviewed). Also contains over 200 educational reports. This database is a subset of Education Research Complete. Dates covered: 1963-present (plus some older content). This database is not included in OneSearch
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) This link opens in a new window
A complimentary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
In addition, 96% of journals indexed in the database are peer-reviewed. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
Literary Reference Plus This link opens in a new window
Literary Reference Plus is a full-text database containing thousands of poems, short stories, classic novels, plot summaries, critical essays, literary journals, reference books and author biographies.
It provides a complete collection of reference works across all genres and time periods. Also included are lesson plans and literary study guides plus full-text resources focusing on plays/drama, poetry, religious literature, fantasy/science fiction, contemporary literature, world philosophy and children's literature.
MAS Ultra School Edition This link opens in a new window
MAS Ultra School Edition is a full-text reference database of popular magazines and e-books covering many subjects, including history, science, and health designed for high school libraries.
It includes full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, and an image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps, flags, and videos from the Associated Press. Content Includes: 450 full-text magazines, 300 e-books (reference and nonfiction), 55,000 full-text primary source documents, and 75,000 videos from AP.

Archer Library Databases

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Ready to browse? These journals are specific to children's literature and books in general. Many are used as professional review resources for juvenile collection purchases.

Publisher's Weekly • Academic Search Complete
News and analyses of book publishing for publishers, booksellers, agents, librarians, writers, educators and people involved in movies, radio and television.
Kirkus Reviews • Academic Search Complete
Publishes reviews for fiction, mysteries, sci-fi, translations, nonfiction, & children's books.
Booklist • Education Research Complete
Provides a guide to current print and nonprint materials worthy of consideration for purchase by small and medium-sized public libraries and school library media centers. (2 week embarbo)
Book Links • Academic Search Complete
A magazine designed for teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents and other interested adults in connecting children with books. Focuses on articles that target those people that educate children from preschool through eighth grade.
Horn Book Magazine • Education Full Text
Includes reviews of the best children's books published, articles about children's books, explorations of children's books from every perspective and news of the children's book world.
Horn Book Guide • Gale Literature Resource Center
Publishes short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people.
School Library Journal • Academic Search Complete
The most complete provider of news, information and reviews for librarians and media specialists who serve children and young adults in school and public libraries.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books • OhioLINK EJC
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books provides concise summaries and critical evaluations of current children's books.
BookPage • Gale Literature Resources
A monthly book review publication distributed to more than 450,000 avid readers through subscribing bookstores and public libraries.It serves as a broad-based selection guide to the best new books published every month.

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