How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus
UCF Library Homepage provides links to the UCF
library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/
From the Library homepage, in the menu bar on the left side of the screen, select Site Index and on the next webpage select the link in the alphabetic list for
Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) provides a list of Electronic Journals which are full text, accessible without cost, and of interest to educators.
Go back to the Library homepage and select the link under Find for
Research Guides provides a list of resources by subject, including Education. From the "User Guides for Education Classes" webpage, select Education Webliography and then select under the General Sites the link for Education Virtual Library. From that webpage, in the top left corner, select the link for W3 Virtual Library. From that webpage, at the bottom of the left column, under Humanities and Humanistic Studies, select the link for Languages and Linguistics and on the next webpage select the link for Linguistics. This webpage provides links for resources such as Mailing Lists and English as a Second/Foreign Language.
Go back to the UCF Library Homepage and select the link under Find for Articles & Databases. In the menu bar on the left side of the screen, select Databases A-Z to connect to the following databases:
Linguistics &
Language Behavior Abstracts assists both generalists and specialists
in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with
the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study
of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including
descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical
linguistics. Dates of electronic coverage: 1973+
EBSCOhost databases: ERIC is a guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). See also the user guides for ERIC and the ERIC Search Wizard. The Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. See also the Professional Development Collection User Guide.
From the UCF Library homepage, select Government Resources and then select Census. From the "Resources for Statistics, Demographics & Census" webpage, select American FactFinder.
In the left column, select Data Sets. Change the selection on the next page to Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3), and then in the shaded area select Detailed Tables. Change the selection by geographic type to County Subdivision and then follow the instructions to add all the County Subdivisions for your local county. After you have added the geographic areas to the selections at the bottom, select the Next button. Select table P19 Age by Language Spoken at Home by Ability to Speak English for the Population 5+ Years and add it to the selection at the bottom and then select the Show Results button. After looking at the results, select the link for the title of the table (P19 AGE BY LANGUAGE...) to see a help page and then select the Subject Characteristics link in that help page for "Language Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English" for more detailed definitions.
Back on the webpage displaying the data results for Table P19, in the line near the top of the webpage which begins "You are here: Main...", select the word "Tables" near the end of the line. In the box near the bottom of the screen, highlight P19 and click on the Remove button. In the selection box, scroll down about halfway to PCT10 (There are four large groups of tables in the list: P1-P160I, H1-H121, PCT1-PCT76I, and HCT1-HCT48I). Select table PCT10 Age by Language Spoken at Home for the Population 5+ Years and add it to the selection at the bottom and then select the Show Results button. This table provides details about some individual languages that were grouped together in the results for table P19. Note that the database retained the geographic area you previously selected.
Other databases can be found from the UCF Library Homepage by selecting the link for Articles & Databases and then selecting the A-Z list or the subject lists for Education or Language & Literature. Examples include:
Education Full Text (Wilson database) indexes English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more. Dates of electronic coverage: 1983+ The UCF Library has the print version, Education Index, at Index L11.E39 from 1929+
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Includes articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. and provides a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.
LexisNexis Academic - The Guided News Search provides access to Non-English Language News from sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Mental Measurements provides full text access to the 9th through 16th editions of Mental Measurements Yearbook.
William S. Gray Research Collection in Reading provides a retrospective compilation of reading research documents from key journals, books, research reports, and monographs published between 1884 and 1980. The full text documents are available in the UCF Library on microfiche - LB 1050.W469. An author/subject guide is available in the Reference Collection under the same call number. Author/subject index cards in the drawers preceding the microfiche documents also provide abstracts.
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