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ERIC
(Free version) - U. S. Department of Education
1966 - Updated Monthly
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records
of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available,
includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Each record provides
Full-Text
Availability Options showing whether the item is available online from
ERIC and a Find in a Library function that shows other libraries
that own the resource. Users should also check the WSC Library's
Full
Text Periodicals Directory to determine whether we have the journal
in-print or online.
ERIC
(EBSCO Version) - U. S. Department of Education
1966 - Updated Monthly
ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national
information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National
Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
It provides access to information from journals included in the Current
Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
This version provides access to the full text of articles from more than
540 journals indexed in ERIC plus the full text of more than 2,200 ERIC
Digests along with references for additional information and
citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related
journals. Search
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ERIC
(CSA Version) - U. S. Department of Education
1966 - Updated Monthly
Educational Resources Information Center database is sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Education to provide access to educational-related literature.
The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in
Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).
Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal
articles per year. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences,
meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual
media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Education
Journals (ProQuest) – ProQuest. 1988-
Updated Monthly
Contains the full text of almost 400 of the leading journals in the
education field covering the literature on primary, secondary, and higher
education topics. Indexes more than 500 journals. Search
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ProQuest
Social Science Journals - ProQuest CSA
1990s-
Updated Daily
Provides access to a variety of social science journals. The database
includes over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text.
Coverage extends back to the early 1990s. Search
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Exceptional Child Education Resources -
Council for Exceptional Children 1969-2004 Closed
File
This database was discontinued by the CEC after October 2004 and is
no longer available online after August 2006.
Children's
Literature Comprehensive Database - Childrenslit.com
Current File Updated Regularly
CLCD is an acquisition, research, and reference database that provides
more than 200,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable
from 33 review sources. The CLCD also includes Teaching Tools - lesson
plans and teaching guides - plus entries for more than 339,000 awards,
prizes, best book lists and reading lists entries. The database also provides
access to over 30,000 book jacket images as well as information provided
by various Reading Measurement Programs such as Accelerated Reader,
Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile, and Reading Counts. Also included
are links to more than 60,000 web pages featuring individual authors
or illustrators.
Mental
Measurements Yearbook - Buros Institute 1989- (9th - 16th Yearbooks)
Updated Semi-Annually
Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than
2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational,
personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence
tests. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher,
publication date; price; time requirements; existence of validity and reliability
data; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations. Contains the
text of the Buros Institute's 9th - 16th Yearbooks. WWW Search
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Professional
Development Collection - Ebsco
1990-
Updated Monthly
provides a specialized collection designed for professional educators.
This collection covers more than 240 full text journals on a broad range
of topics - from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical
theory and practice. The Professional Development Collection includes backfiles
to 1990 plus abstract and index coverage for over 330 well known professional
development titles and searchable full text for over 240 journals covering
the most current topics in education. WWW Search
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Educator's
Reference Complete - Gale 1980 - Present
Updated Daily
Provides more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text
reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on
educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices
in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found
in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily. Search
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Teacher
Reference Center (TRC) - Gale 1984 - Present
Updated Weekly
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 titles from the most
popular teacher and administrator trade journals and periodicals. This
database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment,
Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development,
Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science ? Mathematics,
and more for K-12 Teachers ? Librarians.
Encyclopedia
of Distance Learning - Idea Group
Current Edition
Provides comprehensive coverage of the issues, concepts, trends, and
technologies of distance learning. More than 400 international contributors
from over 50 countries have provided extensive coverage of topics such
as workforce training, accessing education, digital divide, and the evolution
of distance and online education into a multibillion dollar enterprise.
This 4-volume set encyclopedia contains more than 3,000 terms and definitions
and over 6,000 additional references.
JSTOR-
Jstor Inc.
Coverage Varies
Updated Daily
A full-text collection in PDF format of retrospective issues from 162
scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage
includes African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology
and Botany, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History,
Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population
/ Demography, Sociology, and Statistics. Dates of coverage: Varies
depending on journal title; most have a moving wall that excludes the most
recent 2-5 years of coverage. Search
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Handbook
of Research on ePortfolios - Idea Group
Current Edition
Provides comprehensive coverage of the major themes of ePortfolios,
addressing all of the major issues, from concept to technology to implementation.
It provides a complete investigation on a variety of ePortfolio uses through
case studies and supporting technologies, and also explains the conceptual
thinking behind current uses and potential uses not yet implemented. Over
100 international experts developed and wrote this handbook.
Media Review Digest - Pierian Press
1989- Updated Quarterly
Covers educational media and entertainment resources from 1989 onward.
The database provides citations to over 100,000 reviews, evaluations, awards,
and prizes from more than 200 media review sources. FirstSearch
/ Search Guide
MAS
Ultra: School Edition - Ebsco
Updated Monthly
A comprehensive general reference database designed for high school
libraries. It provides full text of articles from nearly 460 of the most
wanted K-12 magazines plus abstracts and indexing for over 540 titles.
All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Includes full text for 50,000 biographies, 1,000 primary documents in American
History, 540 pamphlets, plus reference sources such as Magill's Book
Reviews, CIA World Factbook, World Almanac ? Book of Facts, etc.
EBSCO
Encyclopedia of Animals - Ebsco Current File
Updated Annually
Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.
The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing
the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Funk
& Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Funk ? Wagnalls
Current File
Updated Annually
Features over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia meeting
the research needs of elementary, middle and high school students.
Kids
InfoBits - Gale
Last 5 years
Updated Daily
Meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade
5. It provides a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface,
a subject-based topic tree search, and a A 5-year backfile that offers
relevant and manageable results lists. Included are more than 100 full-text,
age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazines, newspapers, over 3,000 searchable,
indexed images, plus reference content from Blackbirch Press and other
publishers that supports the K-5 curriculum : Kidbits, 2nd Ed. The
Blackbirch Encyclopedia of Science and Invention, The Blackbirch
Kid's Almanac of Geography, The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the
World, The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the States, The Columbia
Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, and Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary.
Also contains a Teacher Toolbox with a variety of worksheets for
classroom use.
InfoTrac
Junior Edition - Gale Group
1999-
Updated Daily
Provides junior high and middle students with a wide variety of full-text
sources that include more than 120+ indexed and 112 full-text general interest
magazines, thousands of newspaper articles from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News
Service, plus selected almanacs, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
InfoTrac
Student Edition - Gale Group 1985-
Updated Daily
Designed for secondary school students, this multisource, full-text
resource offers 407 indexed and 340 full-text titles; more than 40,000
full-text newspaper articles; 14 full-text reference books; 500 historical
images, and more than 300 full-color maps. Includes selected almanacs,
dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
Academic
Search Premier Ebsco
1975-
Updated Daily
The world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database
designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000
peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical
information from many sources found in no other database. The database
includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. Scholarly,
full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study:
social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering,
language and linguistics, arts ? literature, medical sciences, and ethnic
studies. WWW Search
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Academic
OneFile - Gale
1995-
Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed
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 back
to 1995. Search
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General
OneFile - Gale
1980-
Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles
including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The
Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and
The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than
10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to
present. The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac
databases. Content includes more than 508 million records from
periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and
specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search
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Expanded
Academic ASAP – Gale
1980-
Updated Daily
Access to 3,500+ journals and magazines including more than 2,100 in
full text. WWW. Search
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