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Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including education. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Chronicle of Higher Education - No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

College Source
Full-text to catalogs of U.S. colleges and universities. Current.

Dissertation Abstracts
Covers dissertations accepted at U.S. accredited institutions. Also includes selected masters theses, and selected Canadian, British and European dissertations. Dates covered: from 1861- to present; abstracts of dissertations from 1980-; abstracts of thesis from 1988.

Emerald Full-Text
Full text access to 135 journals published by Emerald Press. Emphasis on human resources, management, engineering and information technology

Encyclopedia of Education
Standard 8 volume work covering key issues in education.

Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration
Presents the most recent theories, research, terms, concepts, ideas, and histories on educational leadership and school administration

ERIC
Indexes over 2,000 education-related journal titles and  indexes and abstracts of educational documents produced by 16 ERIC clearinghouses. Contains online thesaurus of ERIC subject headings or descriptors.  Provides full-text links to all eric documents from 1997 to present as well as full text links to 10 per cent of journal articles cited. From 1966 to present.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) -- Citations to identify and evaluate measurement tests used in health and psychosocial studies (e.g., questionnaires, checklists, rating scales, vignettes/scenarios, tests); covers from 1985 to the present.

Humanities International Complete - Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records; an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities including fine arts, literature, history and philosophy.

International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences - The largest reference work ever published for the social and behavioral sciences; subjects include Anthropology/Archaeology, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Education, Environmental/Ecological Sciences, Gender Studies, Behavior and Society, History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, and Psychology.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library -Provides educators, curriculum developers, and other researchers with easy access to full text documents they need to implement educational strategies and objectives, and improve learning in PreK-12 schooling. Its fully searchable database brings together in one place: curricula, frameworks, standards, lessons and learning activities, educational objectives, educational content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Excellent for full-text legal and government sources regarding school law. Includes full-text from newspapers, magazines, and journals, as well as news, business, legal and reference sources.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (Buros) -- Provides full-text reviews and overview of all English language standardized tests of educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas; provides description of test materials, time needed, and one or more reviews of the test. Note: does not provide full-text of actual tests.

Proquest Education Module – Search full text titles on education subjects such as administration, policy, teaching practices, and more in this module of ProQuest Research Library

Psycharticles

Contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 57 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

PsycInfo
Contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, indexes more than 1,700  periodicals including full text to 30+ journals published by American Psychological Association in Psycharticles . Provides full-text links to about 10 per cent of journal citations.

Sage Premier E Journal Collection – Features the full-text contents of over 450 major journals in the fields of criminal justice, education, health, psychology, sociology and social work. Over 140,000 articles are currently available through the collection, with backfiles extending to 1999 for all titles.

Tests in Print -- Comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication dates, and test authors. Note: only qualified test administrators are allowed to purchase tests.

WestLaw Campus - Legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students with full-text access to: the complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states; all federal regulations; all precedent-setting court decisions of the federal and state courts; Key Cite, an integrated tool that shows whether any case, statute, or regulation is still good law; American Law Reports, a research tool that collects and analyzes every court case decided on a particular point of law; American Jurisprudence, a comprehensive encyclopedia of state and federal law; and current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals.