EDU 501 -- Foundations of Educational & Social Justice Inquiry
Penfield Library http://www.oswego.edu/library
Online Reference Resources:
Biography Reference Bank (online through A-Z list)
**Dictionary of American History (10 v.)
**Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
**Encyclopedia of Education
**Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
**Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America , 2nd Ed., 3v, 2000. Search for each
cultural group, use “find on page” to focus on education information.
**Check the box “search within this publication” if you wish to focus on the book you
chose. After the first search the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library will automatically
be searched unless you use advanced search to again limit to a single book.
For suggested print reference sources available at Penfield Library see the History of
Education course guide linked from http://www.oswego.edu/~bshaffer .
Penfield Library Guides:
Education Research Guide: Provides access to major database and Internet resources in
the field. Available through Research Guides by Subject on the library’s home page. See
also the History and News guides.
Books and more:
Library Catalog: Connect from the Library homepage to search for books, videos, and
much more. For primary sources, good search terms include: sources, diaries, journals,
letters, speeches, etc. – anything that is the original words of the person recording them.
Photographs, news articles and documents of the time period are other excellent primary
sources.
For books on your topics, you may want to try this combination of terms: <your group>
and American education history Also try synonyms or sub-groups, e.g., Chinese
American. A few relevant books may be electronic, available print books can be
requested via ILL.
For materials in the Teaching Resource Center (TRC) or Juvenile collections, use the
advanced search and limit by document type. (See TRC guide for more details.)
Indexes for Articles: (see also Research Guides by Subject – especially History)
Click on the links below, or access through the guides or A-Z List of Databases.
ERIC – education focused articles and documents from 1966 to present
Suggested subject term: “educational history”(with the quotes) and your cultural group.
America: History and Life This database covers all aspects of history, so be sure to
include “schools” or “education” among your search terms.
SocINDEX with Full Text, 1908-present (varies by title; some indexing from 1895)
Full text for over 500 journals in sociology and related disciplines, and indexing for over
3000 others. Also includes relevant books and conference papers, many of them full-text,
and allows searching of cited references.
New York Times Article Archive Online index for New York Times since 1851 –
microfilm scanning of articles is available on request.
Reader’s Guide Retrospective Online index of popular magazines, 1890-1982.
Continues in paper in the Reference Room.
For electronic indexes, link through the A-Z list of databases or research guides.
Select Internet Sources: (see also Criteria for Evaluating Information)
Library of Congress: American Memory Collection
http://memory.loc.gov Search your cultural group with the terms “schools” or
“education”. Especially good for images and primary documents.
Librarians’ Internet Index http://lii.org Browse or search this collection of select
websites.
Try http://scholar.google.com for scholarly materials cited on the Internet. Many have
links to Penfield Library full-text.
Barbara Shaffer, Education Librarian
For questions contact bshaffer@oswego.edu
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