This research guide is intended as an overview of library resources and services of particular relevance for students in Monica Chan's Fall 2020 course MSTU 4133, Cognition and Computers. The resources, primarily electronic and accessible on and off campus, have been selected as ones supporting the objective of the course, i.e., to prepare students to explore "ideas about cognition and knowledge representation and how they relate to the use of computers in instruction" and enable students to "select a subject area, learn to represent knowledge from it so that it can be implemented in a computer instruction system, and use the knowledge prepresentation to characterize the cognitive prerequisites and consequences of learning to use computers." The guide also includes a section describing research consultation and assistance services and options for document retrieval and delivery available to all members of the Teachers College community.
Library Resources
Online Catalogs
EDUCAT - The most definitive record of the holdings of the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, including books, e-books, journals, e-journals, dissertations, media, and other specialized collections of all kinds.
CLIO Catalog - A union catalog of Columbia University Libraries (exclusive of the libraries of Teachers College, the Columbia Law School, and Jewish Theological Seminary), providing the most definitive record of individual libraries' holdings of books, e-books, journals, e-journals, dissertations, media, and other specialized collections of all kinds.
WorldCat - A union catalog of the contents of over 10,000 libraries worldwide, providing the means to do exhaustive searching by author, title, subject, and numerous other criteria and to find locations for specific items in libraries nearby and elsewhere. WorldCat is also freely accessible on the Web at worldcat.org.
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are the official subject terms prescribed by the Library of Congress for the cataloging of books and are in use in essentially all academic libraries. To find works pertaining to research methods in cognition and computing and related subjects, it may be useful to use some of the subject terms, or combinations of terms, listed below when searching the online catalogs of libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University, and other institutions.
- Artificial intelligence [Q334-Q342 (Cybernetics)], [TA347.A78 (Engineering)]
- Cognition [BF309-BF499]
- Cognition -- Social aspects
- Cognition in children [BF723.C5]
- Cognitive learning
- Cognitive psychology [BF201]
- Cognitive science
- Computer science [QA75.5-QA76.9]
- Computer-assisted instruction [LB1028.5-LB1028.7]
- Digital computer simulation
- Education -- Data processing [LB1028.43]
- Educational innovations [LB1027]
- Educational psychology [LB1050.9-LB1091.5]
- Educational technology [LB1028.3]
- Human-computer interaction [QA76.9.H85]
- Human information processing [BF444 (Psychology)], [QP396 (Neurophysiology)]
- Intelligent tutoring systems [LB1028.73 (Education)]
- Knowledge, Theory of [BD143-BD237 (Speculative philosophy)]
- Learning [LB1060]
- Learning -- Social aspects
- Learning, Psychology of [BF318-BF319.5 (Psychology)], [LB1060-LB1091 (Educational psychology)]
- Psychology -- Mathematical models
For an overview of the call number system used in our library and many other academic libraries, see the Library of Congress Classification Outline page.
Periodical Indexes
Cognition-Related Databases
APA PsycNET - Single search interface for PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycEXTRA (see E-Collections below).
PsycINFO (CU) - Covers the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Social Sciences Full Text - Provides coverage of English-language journals across social science disciplines, with indexing from 1983, abstracting from 1984, and select access to full text from 1984 to the present.
Computer-Related Databases
IEEE Xplore (CU) - Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, this database provides the full text of journal articles, conference papers, and e-books from IEEE and associated organizations, with strengths in cognition, communication, and data science.
INSPEC [Engineering Village] (CU) - Database covering the fields of communications, computers and computing, and information technology, among other STEM fields.
LearnTechLib - Resource for aggregated, peer-reviewed research on the latest developments in learning and technology.
Education Databases
ERIC - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related periodical literature, ERIC (which stands for Educational Resources Information Center) provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and monographs. In addition to this version, made available via the ProQuest platform, ERIC is also accessible via the U.S. government ERIC site and through Ebsco ERIC.
Education Full Text - Provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Indexing coverage begins June 1983; abstracts are included beginning spring 1994; full text of some journals is available beginning in January 1996.
Education Index Retrospective - Provides cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals and yearbooks; coverage from 1929 through mid-1983.
Education Research Complete - Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.
Professional Development Collection - Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. The database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Multidisciplinary Databases
Academic Search Premier - A multidisciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals. See also Academic Search Complete (CU), a scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
JSTOR (CU) - An online archive of over 1,200 leading scholarly journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles.
ProQuest (CU) - Provides broad multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly journals, newspapers, dissertations, and other types of publications; for international coverage and access to full texts of dissertations only, search ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, a subset of ProQuest.
Federated Search Engines
Super Search (via Gottesman Libraries) - To search some or all of our periodical indexes and EDUCAT simultaneously for books, journal articles, reports, dissertations, etc.
Quicksearch (via Columbia University Libraries) - To search the catalog, multiple periodical indexes, and other web resources simultaneously within a variety of subjects and disciplinary subcategories.
Google Scholar - Provides the means to search for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Print Resources
Dictionary of Cognitive Science: Neuroscience, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, and Philosophy (2004) (see also e-version below)
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (1999)
E-Resources
Dictionary of Cognitive Science: Neuroscience, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, and Philosophy (CU) - This work, published in 2004, "presents comprehensive definitions in more than 120 subjects. Topics range from 'Abduction' to 'Writing' within the domains of psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, philosophy, and linguistics."
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (CU) - This 2015 publication "captures contemporary thinking about the workings of the mind and brain, focusing on problems that are as old as recorded history, but reflecting approaches and techniques that have emerged since the 1980's."
E-Collections (Text, Images, Sound)
Ebook Central - Online books across a range of subject areas; searchable, under Browse Subjects, by Education, Philosophy, etc. and various sub-topics, and by author, title, and other criteria.
Oxford Scholarship Online (CU) - Provides the full text of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in economics and finance, law, political science, and other disciplines.
SAGE Knowledge (CU) - "A database of ebooks and reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aged & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Gender & Sexuality Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, and Sociology."
Handbooks of Research
Print Resources
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education (2019) (see also e-version below)
E-Resources
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education - This 2019 resource, comprising 18 chapters by various experts in the field, is divided into four major sections: Part I, Foundations; Part II, Science and Math; Part III, Reading and Writing; and Part IV, General Learning Strategies. According to the introduction, "each chapter supplies a description of the learning goal, a balanced presentation of the current evidence about the efficacy of various approaches to obtaining that learning goal, and a discussion of important future directions for research in this area."
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science (CU) - Published in 2012, "this volume of original essays surveys foundational, theoretical, and philosophical issues across the discipline, and introduces the foundations of cognitive science, the principal areas of research, and the major research programs. With a focus on broad philosophical themes rather than detailed technical issues, the volume will be valuable not only to cognitive scientists and philosophers of cognitive science, but also to those in other disciplines looking for an authoritative and up-to-date introduction to the field."
The Wiley Handbook of Human-Computer Interactions (CU) - Published in 2018, this work comprises 44 chapters divided into 11 parts, focusing on aspects of research in the field including design issues, the design process, evaluation factors, evaluation method, input/output, interfaces, interaction, accessibility, social, communities, and applications.
Reviews of Research
Annual Reviews (CU) - Reviews of topics in biomedical, physical, and social sciences published as annual journals; see series for Computer Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, Sociology, and many others.
Review of Educational Research - A publication of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the RER publishes quarterly critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education, including conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of scholarly work.
Review of Research in Education - A publication of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the RRE provides an annual overview and descriptive analysis of selected topics of relevant research literature through critical and synthesizing essays.
Citation Indexes
Scopus (CU) - Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
Web of Science (CU) - Comprising the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Science Citation Index Expanded, this database supports searching by topic, author, or publication name, and is also a major means for doing cited reference searching, to find articles that cite a person's work.
Google Scholar - Provides the means to search by author or publication title, and indicates and provides links to works that have cited the documents retrieved.
Digital Archives
PocketKnowledge - The social archive of Teachers College, including unpublished manuscripts and archives from the library's collections, documents from other departments and administrative offices College-wide, and the work of TC students, faculty, and researchers.
Academic Commons (CU) - Columbia University's online repository, where current faculty, students, and staff can deposit the results of their scholarly work and research.
Internet Archive - A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies, and music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.
Bibliography and Citation Management Programs
Citation Management Software - An extensive description of and guide to the use of Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote, courtesy of Columbia University Libraries.
Library Services
Ask a Librarian - Explore a variety of kinds of research support: submit an email reference query to librarians; request a research consultation with a Gottesman librarian; review frequently asked questions via the library's Knowledge Database.
Course Reserves - E-Reserves provides online access to digital course readings, including e-journal articles and book chapters, as well as call numbers for physical course reserves materials (books, DVDs, videos, etc.). More information about E-Reserves and physical Course Reserves can be found on the Course Reserves page.
Requesting New Materials - Teachers College students, faculty, and staff may use the materials request form to request library materials not owned by Gottesman Libraries, or the Columbia Morningside Campus Libraries.
Workshops - The Gottesman Libraries' education program offers a calendar of workshops on citation management, research techniques, and academic writing processes. Visit the Events page on the library’s website to learn about and RSVP to upcoming workshops.
