Education
General content database. Contains both full-text and citations to magazines, trade journals and scholarly publications across a wide range of subject areas.
Available through ProQuest, this database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. Abstracts free online. First 24 pages may be viewed and printed free as well. Search may be limited by a number of factors. You may order a full-text copy of any dissertation through Interlibrary Loan. See a librarian at the reference desk for more information.
Education research database covering topics from early childhood to higher education, and all specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, curriculum instruction, and administration.
Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) contains educational articles and documents pertaining to all facets of education. The database contains a wide collection of scholarly and/or peer reviewed journals. Contains ERIC Journals (EJ) that are scholarly and/or peer-reviewed. Also contains ERIC Documents (ED), though not peer-reviewed, are an excellent resource for all educators as they contain research and presentations from conferences and white papers related to education. Contains citaitons and full-text.
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary archive that supports scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
From the Buros Institute, this database covers more than 2,200 tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor. Each entry includes test name and classification, author(s), publisher, publication date, price, time requirements, score descriptions, levels, and intended populations. This database is updated every six months .
Provides full text for approximately 70 popular, elementary school magazines as well as indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator. Database also provides the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin .
Professional Development Collection
Education database provides full text access to approximately 550 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 700 journals.
Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
Available from the American Psychological Association (APA) this database contains approximately 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. 97 % of the material is peer-reviewed .
Database includes Primary Search, Middle Search Plus and Book Collection: Nonfiction for elementary as well as middle school students. Using dinosaur guide and compass Searchasaurus u ses an animated interface that encourages young researchers to develop basic search skills.
Database covering current events, social, political and economical issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics. Mostly full text.
This is a multi-disciplinary database providing strong content in the areas of education, general science, the humanities, social sciences and business. Wilson also provides decent literary criticism resources as well as indexing and abstracts across many subjects. Searches are easily narrowed by discipline using the subject area limiters shown on the main search screen. Mostly full-text .