Databases & Journals: Indexes, Abstracts & Articles
Databases for Education
The databases included in this list may contain full text articles, abstracts, or citations to articles in the field of Education. Access to these databases should be in the order given.
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Indexes and abstracts over 625 education-related journals, starting in 1983, with full text starting in 1996. Encompasses all areas of concern to today's educators, including administration, teaching methods, and curriculum. Covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. Includes selected series and supplements and book review citations.
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Currently the ERIC database contains over 1.2 million records. Abiout 400,000 ERIC docuemnts are full text.
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PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 36 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies distinguished by more than 40 years of backfiles for some titles.
It covers such subject areas as: Adult and Continuing Education, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Elementary and Primary Education, High School and Secondary Education, Higher Education, International Education, Leadership, Measurement and Testing, Multicultural Education and Diversity, Professional Development, Teaching and Instruction, Teaching Methods.
The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
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Blackwell Synergy titles are now included in the Wiley Interscience database. Blackwell Synergy contains the online versions of more than 870 scholarly journals published by Blackwell. As of July, 2008, nearly 885,000 full text Blackwell articles are included. Full text is available for all of these journals from at least 2001 (except for new journals) and coverage for some goes back to the 1970s. Listings and indexing on InterScience include ALL Wiley journals as well as the former Blackwell Synergy titles, but with few exceptions, only the Blackwell titles are availaible in full text.
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Campus Research™ is a research service for news, business and law-related information.It includes full-text information and access to both current and archived materials from thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically, and law-related resources, including both primary law and analysis.
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Academic OneFile is a major source of full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times 1985-date. Updated daily.
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Wilson SelectPlus indexes and abstracts records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. Links to full-text articles. The database contains more that 1.1 million full-text articles from 2,100 journals.
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Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is an ever growing online database with over 300,000 reviews and related information on children’s literature and literature for professional educators. CLCD contains reviews from over 36 quality reviewers including:
- The ALAN Review
- BookList
- The Horn Book Guide
- KIRKUS
Included is information on reading level, lesson plans, and extensive linke to author pages.
To access the collection from the CLCD homepage, click on the "Subscriber Login" button.
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NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
Provides full-text of nearly 1900 journals published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries. Beginning coverage for journals varies, but most start in 1995 or 1996 and continue to the most recent issue. For many titles, articles in press are also available. Most journals are in the fields of science, technology or medicine, but journals in the social sciences, humanities and business are also included. The title holdings listed in "Full Text Journals in UDM Databases" show the start date for journals included in the Science Direct Freedom Collection; for most dates prior to 1995, only abstracts are available.
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