General Rules
→When searching a phrase put it in quotes e.g. "elementary school students"
→If a general term such as "learning disabilities" finds too many results, try a more specific term such as dyslexia.
Professional Development Collection
Subject Terms:
* learning disabilities
* learning disabled children
* autism
* autism in children
* anxiety disorders
* anxiety and children
* brain research
* conduct disorders in children
* neurochemistry OR neuropharmacology {search the whole phrase without quotes}
* violence in children
* substance abuse <--instead of drugs
* methodology <--instead of research
* ethics
PsycInfo
Subject Terms:
* learning disabilities {combine with elementary school students}
* educational diagnosis
* autism {narrow by Age on the left of the results list}
* pervasive developmental disorders <-- instead of autism spectrum disorders
* anxiety disorders
* neuropsychology
* conduct disorder
* drug abuse <-- instead of substance abuse
* eating disorders
* professional ethics
* methodology <-- instead of research methods
* pharmacology
* neuropharmacology {to find the effects of drugs on the brain}
Looking for statistics? Check out the Camosun Library research guide on statistical information.
Professional Development Collection and PsycInfo are the most important indexes for journal articles in your field.
The off campus login for library resources is the same as your Camosun domain account login (also used for D2L).
You can reset your Camosun domain password at https://password.camosun.ca.
For other problems accessing library resources off campus, please submit a trouble report.
Childhood's End by lenish
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If Camosun library does not have a specific article or book that you want, library staff can request it from another library.
Interlibrary loan service is provided to support research and study undertaken at Camosun and is available free to registered students, instructors and staff.
To place a request:
NOTE: There is a limit of 10 ILL requests per student per semester. There are also cost limits for individual items requested should there be a fee attached. Please review our policy should you have any questions.
