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Databases: Education

 

Alphabetical:

  • Academic Search Premier
    • 4,500+ general and academic journals, including education
    • coverage from 1985+
    • mostly full-text

  • ERIC
    • the primary index for journal articles and reports in education
    • use the Thesaurus to help choose search terms
    • abstracts-only
    • coverage from 1966+

  • JSTOR
  • MAS Ultra - School Edition
    • designed specifically for high school libraries
    • indexes 600+ popular general interest and current events publications
    • all articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles)
    • coverage from 1985+
    • full-text

  • Primary Search
    • indexes 60+ popular magazines for elementary school research
    • all articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles)
    • coverage from 1990+
    • full-text

  • Project MUSE
    • 250+ scholarly journals, including education
    • coverage from 1983+
    • mostly full-text

  • Teacher Reference Center
    • indexes 280+ teacher and administrator trade journals
    • mainly abstracts; some links to full-text

  • U.S. Department of Education Web Site
    • information selected especially for parents, teachers, students, and administrators
    • press releases, photos, audio clips, and video all in one place—Press Room.
    • information centers for financial aid, grants and contracts, policy, programs, and research and statistics

  • WilsonWeb
    • 3,500+ general and academic journals, including education
    • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega and Humanities & Social Sci Retro
    • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
    • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
    • 1,750 journals are full-text
Additional:

  • Dissertation Abstracts
    • indexes all doctoral dissertations in the U.S., including education
    • coverage from 1861+
    • abstracts
    • order from Interlibrary Loan

  • WorldCat
    • largest database of books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by OCLC libraries worldwide
    • over 400 languages represented

 

 

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