Reference Library

Reading Room

NAPCSE affords its members the opportunity to read various works in its reading room.  The NAPCSE reading room allows members access to numerous books, journals, literary criticism, newspapers, poetry, and speeches. 

 

The topics listed are individual websites that can be accessed only by members of The National Association of Parents with Children in Special Education (NAPCSE).  If you are not a member of NAPCSE, and would like to join, click here to register. Members of NAPCSE, please log in above (member login and password) to activate these, and all other websites, in our database.

 

Books

  • Publishers Weekly
  • Barnes and Noble-booksellers
  • Amazon booksellers
  • Booksamillion-booksellers
  • Bookstore.com-booksellers
  • Bookwire-the book industry resource
  • Booksense-a family of independent-bookseller websites
  • BookPage-national book reviews
  • USA Today Books-best selling book lists
  • Allbooks4less-bargain book store
  • American Booksellers Association-browse book stores nationally
  • 100 Best Novels list
  • 100 Best Nonfiction books-list
  • Bookreporter-interviews with authors
  • 100 Best Novels-list
  • The Modern Library from Random House
  • Books on current events

Young Adult Library

  • ERIC's extensive list of hundreds of journals in special education
  • Provides links to the worlds' electronic journals
  • Full test educational journals online
  • Journal of Statistics Education
  • Reading Online-a journal of K-12 research
  • Current Issues in Education
  • Teachers College Record-Voice of Scholarship in Education
  • Harvard Educational Review
  • DeLiberations-Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
  • Comparative Education Review-investigates education throughout the world and the social, economic, and political forces that shape it.
  • Elementary School Journal
  • Journal of Psycheducational Assessment

Literary Criticism

  • Internet Public Library-Offers 3000+ critical and biographical sites, literary resources, philosophy resources, brief biographies etc.
  • Women's writers-provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women.
  • Literary resources by era

Newspapers

  • This site provides you with links to over 3,300 United States Newspapers.
  • This site provides you with links to 5,958 newspapers from around the country and the world.
  • This newspaper archive allows you to search 19.2 million newspaper pages online.

Poetry

  • EServer Poetry Collection
  • Directory of poetry worldwide online
  • Poetry Society of America

Speeches

  • Access great american speeches, speaker topics and a lengthy transcript collection.
    Great American speeches by era
  • Presidential rhetoric-great speeches from America's leaders