Education
Electronic Databases Sorted by Subject
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.
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