Research Guides: Early Childhood Education: Search for Articles

Library Handouts for Education Students

What Can the Library Do for You?
A "cheat sheet" on library services for COE students.
Finding Full Text Articles: The Persistent Method
Sometimes electronic full text of an article may be just a few clicks away. If one way doesn’t work, there are other ways to try.

PsycINFO Classification Codes
These codes are sometimes useful when searching the PsycINFO database.
APA Databases Methodology Field Values
You can search by methodology in PsycINFO. This handout defines the methodology terms used.

Search for Articles on a Topic

These are databases that can be used to find articles on Early Education topics. In most cases your best bets are ERIC, PsycINFO, and/or Google Scholar. If you are new to using ERIC and PsycINFO, check out the search tutorial. The skills you learn will save you lots of time!

When you don't find the full text of an article in the database, try the Tips for Finding Full Text.

ERIC
Key source for Education articles and reports. To update results use Supplemental Education Index.
Info type: scholarly articles, professional articles, dissertations, ERIC documents
Brief how to video: ERIC Basics
Look up Subject terms: Thesaurus on ERIC.gov
Supplemental Education Index
Use this database to update results after using ERIC in order to get more articles from 2025 and later. You won’t be able to search by grade level.
PsycINFO
Subjects: Psychology, Education, Business, Communication, Linguistics, Social Work
Info type: scholarly articles, book info, conference papers, dissertations
How To: ProQuest Basics
Locating Quantitative and Qualitative Articles in PsycINFO
PsycINFO Quick Reference Guide
Google Scholar with EMU Full Text
Search for scholarly materials on any topic
Info type: scholarly articles, books, research reports, theses, working papers, cited sources
Access Tips: Use link above to get access to EMU subscriptions with Findtext+ links.
If this link does not work and you receive an error message from Google then use this alternate link to Google Scholar and also set your Google Scholar preferences to show EMU library access links.
Search Instruction: Google Scholar Video
Web of Science
Search for articles in Science & Social Science journals and see which articles cite an article
ProQuest One Business
Key source for business articles.
Subjects: Accounting, Auditing, Business, Communications, Economics, Ed Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Admin, Hotel Restaurant Mgmt, Management, Public Admin, Technology
Info type: scholarly articles, professional articles, magazine articles, news, reports, dissertations
Brief Instruction Video: ProQuest Basics

Child Care & Early Education Research Collections
Search for research on child care, early education and related policies, including original research, syntheses, fact sheets and briefs, datasets, instruments, and other research-related resources.
Tip: It can be helpful to use the Browse by Topic or Browse by State features.
**EMU may have access to articles discovered here--but you may have to use the Journal Finder to get to EMU's subscription.**

Very Short Video on Using ERIC

Early Education News Sources

Next America: Early Childhood - The Atlantic
Scholastic Early Childhood Today
Teaching Young Children
A magazine for preschool educators.

In the News

A New Vision for High-Quality Preschool Curriculum
A 2024 report from the National Academies of Sciences.
Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children
2023 report from the National Academies of Sciences.
How Child Care Became the Most Broken Business in America
Suddath, C. (November 18, 2021). How child care became the most broken business in America, Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

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