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Literacy Education
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SELECTED JOURNAL DATABASES FOR SEARCHING FOR ARTICLES
(OIT UMACCESS Account Required)
 
Anthropological Literature
Communication Abstracts
E*Subscribe ERIC Microfiche online 
Digital Dissertations
ERIC (Education)
Expanded Academic Index (interdisciplinary) 
Hispanic American Periodical Index
Linguistic Abstracts Online
MLA Bibliography
(literature)
PsycInfo
Sociological Abstracts
Web of Science (Citation Indexes)
Reference Books in the Library-on main floor of the library

Sample Book Searches through the Library Catalog

Language and Literacy Series 41 titles (books at the UMASS library) 

Sample Subject headings for Literacy Development/Education Click on any of the links below to run a search on that topic in the Library Catalog

Sample Journal Searches in Expanded Academic Index
Click on any of the links below to run a search on that topic in Expanded Academic Index
or do a different subject search on Literacy and then Narrow.
You may also do a keyword search to combine terms such as literacy and esl; literacy development; literacy and teaching etc. 


Sample Internet Sites

ERIC Clearinghouse on Language and Linguistics #1 place to start for information related to your topic.
AskERIC (for ERIC digests, bibliographies, journal citations) Try the Ask an ERIC Expert Form for your query.
Bilingual/ESLBruce's TEFL Bookmarks (including online learning activities)
Center for Applied Linguistics an exhaustive set of links to language-related organizations in the United States and abroad. 
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri
ESL Lessons (searchable website for teaching methods, lessons, authors, books, etc.)Foreign Language Teaching Forum
Foreign Language Resources on the Web
Human Languages Language Policy Links
National Center for Bilingual Education (NCBE)
National Center for ESL Literacy Education (also search Adult ESL Literacy Resources in the ERIC System)
National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education Excellent resource!! Check ERIC Digests
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
Online Dictionaires
TESL Journal for Teachers of English as a Second Language
The United Nations CyberSchoolBus Multilingual Database
Yamada Language Center
Web Page Links for Bilingual Education/ESL

SAMPLE LIST OF JOURNALS AT THE DU BOIS LIBRARY RELATED TO LANGUAGES/LINGUISTICS
(Current years on second floor unless otherwise indicated below
  • online access possible -- some are restricted to UMASS OIT account holders

  • Here are some web pages that list online journals.  Some are available for free and some require a subscription:
    Produced and maintained by
    Lori Mestre, Coordinator of Instructional and Curriculum Support Services
    W.E.B. Du Bois Library,
    University of Massachusetts Amherst  lori.mestre@library.umass.edu
      Updated: April 02