Research Guides: Juvenile & Children's Literature: Research Resources

Research Children's and Young Adult Literature

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Library Catalogs

Hawaiʻi State Public Library System
Find materials at public and school libraries in Hawaiʻi.

OneSearch Manoa
Search the UH Voyager catalog and multi-subject databases and indexes.
WorldCat (public version)
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Free version.

Online Resources

Reference Books

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
The Encyclopedia comprehensively documents and interprets the books read by children throughout the world. It includes brief biographies of major authors and illustrators, as well as essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes.

Databases

Book Collection: Nonfiction
Book Collection: Nonfiction is a rich research database for school and public libraries. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,100 popular nonfiction books.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
A searchable database of information about children's book awards. DAWCL has over 8,000 records from 89 awards across six English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland)

ERIC (via ProQuest)
ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests, references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals
JSTOR
Selected journals in the following subject areas are available: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
MasterFILE Complete
MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 2,000 general periodicals, including many parent and educator serials (such as School Library Journal and Horn Book) that review children's and young adult literature.
MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
It is compiled by the staff of the MLA Department of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. Such international coverage is represented by literature from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and while the majority of records are from English-language publications, at least sixty other languages are represented including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish. Includes access to MLA Directory of Periodicals.
NoveList K-8 Plus
NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides access to selected full text of approximately 250 scholarly journals published in arts and humanities.

Selected Journals

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