Education Databases

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ERIC EBSCOhost 1966-
Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, standards and guidelines. Articles from over 775 periodicals.

ERIC U.S. Dept of Education
This non-commercial version of ERIC is open access. Digitized documents are added to the database on a regular basis. One may search by the ERIC number.

PsycINFO EBSCOhost 1872-
Provides access to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1,400 journals in more than 30 languages, as well as to book chapters and books in the English language. PsycINFO is the world's most comprehensive source for bibliographic coverage of psychology and behavioral sciences literature.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text EBSCOhost 1985-
Searches a mixture of peer reviewed journals and popular publications, such as magazines, in the areas of sport, recreation, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, history and sociology of sport, and training.

Scopus Elsevier 1966-
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Scopus is an abstracting database that covers the following fields: chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, economics, and environmental sciences. Scopus provides access to over 26 million abstracts (going back to 1966) and 10 years of reference backfiles.

Social Science Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge 1900-
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.

ICPSR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR maintains a digital, data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, demographics and other social related fields.

Sociological Abstracts Proquest/CSA 1952-
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. An excellent resource for any sociology related topic.

Teacher Reference Center EBSCOhost
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Additional Resources

Dissertations and Theses Proquest 1861-
Indexes the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. Abstracting of dissertations begins with 1980 and abstracting of theses begins with 1988.

Films on Demand Films Media Group
Contains thousands of streaming documentaries in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. For education, it contains films in the areas of curriculum & instruction, educational psychology, foundations, and special education.

The Gateway to 21^st Century Skills
A virtual catalog of educational resources from government, non-profit and commercial sites that teachers can search by subject, student grade level, special needs and other criteria. Sponsored by the National Education Association.

MAS Ultra - School Edition* EBSCOhost
Provides full text for nearly 460 general interest and current events magazines. Designed for high school libraries.

Middle Search Plus* EBSCOhost
Provides full text for nearly 120 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and jr. high school students.

Primary Search * EBSCOhost
Provides full text for over 50 children's magazines and over 10 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
The CLCD is an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,400,000 records and more than 300,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 36 review sources.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts EBSCOhost
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Tests and Measurements

HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) Ebscohost
Provides information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. Helps researchers to identify measurement instruments for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print Ebscohost
This database combines Mental Measurements Yearbook, a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, and Tests in Print (TIP), a comprehensive bibliography that includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s) to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.

E-Texts

MIT CogNet*
A brain and cognitive science database that searches selected journals, e-books, reference materials and conference proceedings.

NetLibrary
A collection of more than 7,000 electronic books of a scholarly and professional nature that cover a broad range of topics including business and economics, computers, philosophy, religion, literature, education, consumer information, health, and science. The collection also provides access to about 4,000 titles in the public domain.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

JSTOR*
Full-text of 117 core journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Coverage includes the entirety of each journal with the exception of the current five years.

OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)* EBSCOhost 1982-
This general database includes articles that cover a wide range of topics in education, general science, humanities, and the social sciences. Formerly known as WilsonWeb, OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition contains the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications.

Sage Online Journals* Sage years vary-
A full-text, multidisciplinary database covering more than 520 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.