EDEC 310 - Child advocacy
Contents
Items held at Dixson Library
You can find books and / or chapters of books on your topic in the UNE Library Catalogue.
- Click on the Library catalogue link in the Catalogue search box.
- Click on Keyword (in the black horizontal bar).
- Enter <child*> in the first box. Don't type the brackets.
- Do type the asterisk which causes it to find child, children, etc.
- Enter <advocacy> in the second box.
- Press the Enter key.
- Click on the word copies to check if a relevant item is on loan.
Note that the Keyword search of All fields is the most comprehensive search available and includes contents and authors of many book chapters. You can click on the More link for any item to see any lists of chapters available.
External students can place requests for items of interest using the request options given at
http://www.une.edu.au/library/services/external/index.php.
You are not able to request the items from within the catalogue.
Articles in reference works
R372.2103/E56 Encyclopedia of early childhood education / edited by Leslie R. Williams, Doris Pronin Fromberg. New York : Garland Pub., 1992. Section 3.5 Child advocacy and public policy pp. 155-158,165. (Pages 159-164 list US organisations in this field.)
SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a set of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
Articles in electronic databases
1. For Australian information use Informit.
- Go to the University Library page at http://www.une.edu.au/library/.
- Choose Journal articles & databases from the Find resources column.
- Select Informit from the Most Popular Databases on the left.
- Enter your UNE username and password when prompted.
- Mark the boxes next to APA-FT, Family & Society Plus, A+ Education and Meditext (if you want the health and medical aspect). Add AGIS Plus Text if you want articles from a legal angle and MAIS if you want a multicultural angle.
- Click on the Start Searching button.
- Type <child*> in the first search box. Don't type the brackets.
- Type <advocacy> in the second search box.
- Tick the box marked Full Text Records Only if you want only online full text articles.
- Tick the Publication Year box and change the dates if you want to limit the date range.
- Click on Search.
- To view the article, click on the Full Text PDF link.
Some articles are indexed in Informit Online, but are not available in full text there. Click on the yellow Find IT button. This takes you to a new window in which you will find;
- a Go button which takes you to the full-text of the article and/or
- a Go button which allows you to search the UNE Library catalogue to find the article in paper.
Click on the Logout button at the top right of the screen to finish.
A guide for using Informit Online can be found in the eSKILLS UNE research guide.
2. For international material
You can find references to articles on your topic by searching ERIC on CSA. Follow these steps:
- Go to the University Library page at <http://www.une.edu.au/library/>.
- Choose Journal articles & databases from the Find resources column.
- Select CSA from the Most Popular Databases on the left.
- Enter your UNE username and password when prompted.
- Click on Specific Databases within the CSA search screen.
- Add a tick to the ERIC box.
- Click on Continue to Search.
- In the first box type <child advocacy> and use the drop down arrow to change it to search Descriptors (DE=). This narrows your search to only those matches whose main focus is child advocacy.
- On the second line type <early childhood> in the first box and <child care> in the second box.
- Use the drop down arrow to change these to search Descriptors (DE=).
- Click on Search.
- Click on Full-Text to view the full article.
There are 2 main types of references in ERIC, journal articles and reports.
Reports have an ED number at the end of the record in the Accession Number field.
Most are available online. The Library holds a comprehensive set of these documents
in microfiche format prior to 2005 stored by ED number.
For journal articles which do not have a Full-text link, use the yellow Find
It button. Items held in paper can be requested using the External
Students' Library Service.
ProQuest gives plenty of full text online on a variety of aspects of child advocacy. It is difficult to limit these successfully to early childhood education.
You can find references to articles on your topic by searching ProQuest. Follow these steps:
- Go to the University Library page at <http://www.une.edu.au/library/>.
- Choose Journal articles & databases from the Find resources column.
- Select ProQuest from the Most Popular Databases on the left.
- Enter your UNE username and password when prompted
- Type <advocacy> in the first search box. Don't type the brackets.
- Type <early childhood or preschool or care centers> in the second box.
- Mark the box next to Full text articles only if you wish.
- Marking the box for Scholarly journals will ensure academic sources only.
- Click on the search button.
To view an article from the list given, click on the article title or a format
icon. Click on Help (top right) for information on the various
formats. To print or email an article, you must be viewing the article contents
as full text (Full Text, Full Text - PDF or Text + Graphics) or be displaying
a Marked List. Use the Help if you wish to learn about emailing or printing.
Relevant web sites
http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/resources/links/links.html Australian Government Child Abuse Prevention Links page. Note the links on the left of the page to Publications, Resources, Conferences etc.
Two useful Google www.google.com.au searches are:
1. "child advocacy" filetype:pdf
Limit it to search in pages from Australia only if needed.
2. "advocacy is" if you want sites which give good definitions. Include the quotation marks.