LION: Education: Internet Resources

Quick Tips

Google Scholar
An academic version of Google providing a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Coverage dates vary.
Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations are available. Google Scholar helps identify the most relevant research across the scholarly world. Google Scholar can be used to search several Albright subsciption databases, e.g., JSTOR, Project Muse, ScienceDirect, etc.

ALA/ALSC Children's Literature Awards

The ALSC awards are announced every January at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting.
Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Brief abstracts and keywords are included for each title. Over 5,000 picture books are included, appropriate for use in designing curricular units for K-12 students.
Databases of Award Winning Children's Literature

DAWCL has over 7,000 records from 84 awards across six English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland).
ICDL - International Children's Digital Library

The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community...by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge.
Lexile Framework for Reading Due to funding cuts of the State Library's budget, NoveList and NoveList K-8 Plus database are no longer available to academic libraries. However, the Lexile Framework for Reading website does provide lexile scores as well as reading lists. Open access.