Library guides: Special needs education: Get started

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Welcome to the Special needs education guide.

This guide has been developed to you assist in finding and using the wide range of resources available through the Griffith University library.

ERIC (via ProQuest)
Indexes journals, curriculum and teaching guides, and other publications for education.
An international bibliographic database covering the literature on all aspects of education. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education (RIE), covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), covering the published journal literature from over 775 periodicals.
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Education Database
Offers complete text and images from almost 400 leading journals in the field of education, covering the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education; also includes such areas as special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
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PsycINFO (via Ovid)
PsycINFO covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology for more than 45 countries and in over 30 languages covering the period from 1983 to date. It includes relevant information from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science and organizational behaviour. The database also includes the full-text content of approximately 280 psychology journals.
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Study and assignment skills
Develop your study and digital skills and improve your researching, writing and editing.
Referencing
Self-help resources, including examples of how to reference in various styles.
Academic integrity student tutorial
Introduces you to the skills you need to maintain academic integrity, including referencing.
Systematic-style review
This web page will be of interest to anyone conducting or intending to conduct a systematic-style review (e.g., systematic, scoping, integrative, rapid, systematic quantitative literature review, etc.)