Special Education Topics - Visual Impairment

This research guide is meant to help you through the stages of your research. This guide includes information on:

• Academic Databases
  • To find the best databases for peer-reviewed articles for your research
• Special Education Journals
  • Includes academic and practitioner journals, with an explanation of differences
• State and National Education Resources such as:
  • ND Century Code for Education
  • National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
  • U.S. Department of Education
• Assistive Technology Resources
  • Online resources
  • UND services
• Research Resources includes
  • Research guides on
    • Literature reviews
    • Citation style guides
    • Citation managers
    • eBook collections
  • Types of Research such as quantitative, qualitative, and systematic reviews
  • Explanation of what peer-review
• Streaming Videos
  • Chester Fritz Library has access to a large collection of online movies related to documentaries, foreign films, award-winners, training and more
• Helpful video tutorials
  • search the library
  • database usage
  • know what type of research you're doing
  • learn what peer review is about

There are several guides related to Special Education that might be useful for you beyond what you'll find here.

• Counseling
• Education
• Lakota Language Education
• Psychology
• Rehabilitation & Human Services

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• UND Writing Center
  • Get one-on-one writing assistance, in person or virtually
• Interlibrary Loan
  • The library can try to acquire a book or article on loan from another library. Textbooks do not qualify.

• Finding Resources in Chester Fritz Library's website

  Research How Tos page on finding and using resources including how to search the library for books, articles, eBooks, and more.

• Finding books on education. The Library of Congress shows the general subject area for education is in the L section. Subsequent letters and numbers narrow the subject area and author to a single book.

  • Library of Congress subject headings for Education

  • Browsing Chester Fritz Library, visit LC 3701-3740 on the third floor

• eBook Collections

• WorldCat - Available from QuickLinks. You can search books from anywhere in the country and request Chester Fritz Library borrow that book for you.

• Research Skills

• Google Scholar Instructions

  • This can be helpful if you're having some issues finding resources on a topic where there might be a limited amount of available published literature or if you've found some good articles but they're not the most recent publications.

    • Look for the Cited By link underneath the article info. This will link you to more currently published material. Look for the PDF or FindIt@UND button to access the articles.           

Finding a Dissertation or Theses

• Dissertations & Thesis Guide

  Addresses how to find and access UND and non-UND dissertations and theses.
• UND Scholarly Commons

  Holds many dissertations produced at UND in full text for anyone
• Proquest dissertations

  If full text is not listed as available, an Interlibrary Loan Request can be submitted.