Pew Learning Center & Ellison Library

• Use our catalog to find books/ebooks, videos, CDs, etc.            
• Use WorldCat to find and request books from other libraries through Interlibrary Loan.  If you are overwhelmed by the amount of content in WorldCat, try looking up a book that has already been helpful to you.  Then search by some of the same subject terms.  Or look for the section of the record that says 'More Like This' and click the 'Advanced Options' link.  What you see there should help you find similar materials.                                                              

Finding an article can involve three steps.

 1. Use Databases to find articles or citations. If the citation includes the full-text or image, you can get the article right away. If not, go to Step 2.

 2. Use Journal Finder to see if we have the journal you want. Note: this is the step to go to if you *already have a citation* in hand. If we do, get your article from the source. If not, go to Step 3. You can also view a list of Relevant Journals In Our Collection and then check Journal Finder for access info.

 3. Use Interlibrary Loan to request the article from another library. Please allow time.

 Interdisciplinary databases covering a variety of subjects:

• Academic Search Complete
• JSTOR - consider limiting by Discipline to make results more focused
• MasterFILE Premier
• OmniFile Full Text- includes Education Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text, listed below
• Newspaper Source Plus - our best all-around newspaper source for news articles from some of the large papers around the country. Includes The New York Times. Provides some international coverage.
• Proquest Research Library
• ScienceDirect

• ERIC - citations and abstracts of the international journal and report literature in education and related fields (also includes curriculum documents)
• Education Full Text 
• Teacher Reference Center - potential source of relevant articles. Note: this database does not link to Journal Finder, so you will have to manually search Journal Finder to see if we have access to the article. May also include citations to articles with teacher lesson plans.

• Environment Complete
• Social Sciences Full Text- indexing and full text access for journals in the social sciences
• PsycInfo - a comprehensive index of the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines
• PsycArticles - subset of PsycInfo of full-text articles from the American Psychological Association

• Active Reviewing: Outdoor Learning
• Adventure & Experiential SiteFinder Ezine
• Adventure Therapy & Wilderness Therapy Links
• Adventure Therapy Web Page
• American Camping Association
• Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education
• Association for Experiential Education
• Children, Nature and You
• Directions: Youth Development Outcomes of the Camp Experience
• Environmental Educators of North Carolina
• Expeditionary Learning Home Page
• Institute for Outdoor Learning (includes link to Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership)
• Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership
• Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers
• National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) Research
• National Society for Experiential Education
• Natural Resources Research Information Pages: Outdoor Recreation Research
• NC Dept of Environment & Natural Resources, Office of Environmental Education
• Outdoor Education Research & Evaluation Center
• OutdoorEd.com: The Premier Web Resource for Outdoor Education Professionals
• Outward Bound International
• Peer-Reviewed Journals in Outdoor Education
• Wilderness Research Center
  

  Suggestions for Citation Management:

• Painless Library Research includes additional information on documentation and plagiarism.                                                  
• Personal assistance: send me email, call me at ext. 3059, or come see me.                                                                            
• Tour the library.