Blindness and Low Vision Studies Subject Guide
Information Literacy
INFORMATION LITERACY: What you need to know about information literacy
Indexes
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) Indexes journals in nursing and related fields with full text for 560 of them. Some go back as far as 1937. Updated weekly.
ERIC The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial
InfoTrac Health Reference Center - Academic Indexes articles with abstracts and selected full text from medical journals and other publications about medicine, nutrition, and related subjects. Coverage: 1980-present.
Medline (FirstSearch) The major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1965 - present. Updated daily.
- RefWorks Info: Medline will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)
PsycINFO Psychological Abstracts BF 1 .P65 (General Stacks)
Covers world-wide literature in psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, and dissertations are included. Coverage: 1887-present. Updated weekly.
Use the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms for subject words: BF1 .P65x 2007 (Education Lib. and Waldo Ref.)
Sociological Abstracts Indexes an international selection of publications in sociology and related disciplines from over 1,800 journals, serials, books, conference papers, and dissertations. Indexing and abstracting from 1952, and cited references with links from 2001. Updated monthly.
Wilson Select Plus Index to full text articles in science, humanities, social sciences, education and business. The index includes records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Coverage: 1994 to the present. Updated weekly.
Organizations and Associations
American Foundation for the Blind
National Association for Visually Handicapped
National Federation of the Blind
Other
Blind/Low Vision Resources List of links
Blindness Links list includes sections for adaptive technology, advocacy groups, training & assistance, books and magazines, employment, medical links, mobility and braille, schools, and WWW resources and home pages.
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