LibGuides: Childhood and Youth Studies: Key Resources

Key Journals

Childhood
Childhood is a major international peer reviewed journal and a forum for research relating to children in global society that spans divisions between geographical regions, disciplines, and social and cultural contexts. Click on the link above to access articles from this journal.
Journal of Youth Studies
Journal of Youth Studies is an international scholarly journal devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of young people’s experiences and life contexts. Click on the link above to access articles from this journal.

Education Resources

British Education Index (BEI) This link opens in a new window
Provides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Note: BEI has moved from the proquest platform to Ebsco.

Social work and Social care resources

Social Care Online (SCIE) This link opens in a new window
The UK's largest online database of information on all aspects of social work and social care. Includes legislation, government documents, practice and guidance, systematic reviews, research briefings, UK grey literature, reports, and journal articles. Updated daily and contains over 160,000 records from the 1980s onwards.

Research Methods Resources

Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects.

Academic Sources: Psychology

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines.

Academic Sources: Multidisciplinary

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. Over 2.5 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters from 1951.
ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts This link opens in a new window
An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Also includes: 34,000 research reports from more than 140 policy institutes on climate change, cybersecurity, energy policy, international relations, terrorism, and various public health issues. Primary sources from important and rare collections from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world including Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa and Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa. Thematic collections focusing on emerging areas of research includes Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and citations for over 22,800 peer-reviewed titles from more than 5,000 international publishers in science, technology, medicine, social science, arts and humanities
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
High quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.