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Early Childhood Education

General Use Databases

Specialized Databases for Education

Using keywords to search a database

Keywords are very important when it comes to doing research. The better the keywords or combination of keywords, the better your search results will be. 

Now that you have a more refined topic, identify some good keyword combination you can use to search a database:

Next type your keyword combination into a database and do a search:

Books and eBooks

While you will likely locate many resources for your projects electronically, please remember that the library has many good print books and videos that can be useful for your research.

The library offers about 40,000 print books and over 300,000 ebooks!  Use the following link to access them: