Education
General content database. Contains both full-text and citations to magazines, trade journals and scholarly publications across a wide range of subject areas.
Curriculum Resource Center
Gives teachers fast access to thousands of easily reproduced handouts to supplement text and lesson plans used in middle school, high school, and junior college classrooms. Making Facts On File's broad range of authoritative, curriculum-supporting loose-leaf binder reference materials available in a user-friendly electronic format, this expansive collection of maps, full-color diagrams, images, experiments, timelines, and other visual educational resources is conveniently arranged by subject (e.g. history, government, religion, geography, science, math, and health and fitness). Each handout can be saved, emailed, printed, or distributed for educational purposes.
Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
This edition of the CRC is an electronic library of printable teacher handouts designed specifically for use by elementary school teachers, librarians, and educators looking to supplement their classroom texts and lesson plans with highly visual, curriculum-supporting material. Combining elements of Facts On File's acclaimed On FileTM print reference materials with powerful search capabilities and an attractive, user-friendly interface, this expansive collection of reproducible handouts is conveniently arranged by type of resource (e.g., maps, timelines, science diagrams) and can be saved, emailed, printed, or distributed for educational purposes.
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 Also contains ERIC Documents (ED), though not peer-reviewed, are an excellent resource for all educators as they contain research and presentations from conferences and white papers related to education.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.
Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
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.
This database contains full text, peer-reviewed articles from 60 psychology journals. Forth-ning titles, published by the American Psychological Association, are full text from volume one to the present.
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.
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 .