Education

DATABASES

Academic Search Elite

A multi-disciplinary database offering full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals. Covering virtually every area of academic study, it offers full text information for many of it's journals dating as far back as 1985.

ArticleFirst

Click on the database tab to access ArticleFirst. OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals. Use the Library's Catalog or E-Journal Finder to verify holdings.

Books In Print   

Find books, movies, and audio books in this user-friendly database of over 5 million titles.

Britannica Online

Includes the Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus. Search results include articles in the encyclopedia, web sites, and links to relevant journal articles.

Discovering Collection

Provides reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.

ECO

Click on the database tab to access ECO. An OCLC collection of scholarly journals. Use the Library's Catalog or E-Journal Finder to verify holdings.

Emerald Full Text Journals

Emerald currently publishes more than 150 journal titles in the fields of management and information science. A dynamic database product, Emerald Fulltext today offers an expanding collection of 40,000 articles from titles published by Emerald. Subscribed titles are available full text.

ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, is a database of journal and non-journal education literature.

ERIC (Search via the Ebsco database)
ERIC (Search via the CSA Illumina database)

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, is a database of journal and non-journal education literature.

NetLibrary

Provides access to 10,912 eBooks and 3,407 publicly accessible eBooks.

PapersFirst

Click on the database tab to access PapersFirst. OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Physical Education Index

Provides records that are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. Abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.

Proceedings

Click on the database tab to access Proceedings. An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.

Professional Development Collection

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles, as well as, more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 900 journals.

ProQuest Research Library

Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

Sage Journals Online

Provides full-text and abstracts for journals in a variety of subject areas including Education, Geography, Health/Nursing, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Writing. Full-text available for subscribed journals only.

Wilson Education Full Text

A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.

Wilson Web

Provides a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Includes the following indexes: Applied Science and Technology, Art, Biological and Agricultural, Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Legal, Readers’ Guide, and Social Science.

WorldCat

Click on the database tab to access WorldCat. OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

WorldCat Dissertations

Click on the database tab to access WorldCat. A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat.

WEB RESOURCES

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids

Website for K-12 students with resources for teachers. The site helps explain how the government works, how to use materials for GPO Access, and provides U.S. Government web sites developed for kids.

Children's Literature Web Guide

Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards. DAWCL has over 4,500 records from 57 awards across six English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland).

ED.gov

The A-Z index from the Department of Education. Containing information from Accountability, Assessment and Standards to Writing.

Educator's Reference Desk

Brings you a variety of educational resources: 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)

FREE makes it easy to find learning resources from more than 35 federal organizations. Resources include teaching ideas, learning activities, photos, maps, primary documents, data, paintings, sound recordings, and more -- on thousands of topics. Categories include, but are not limited to: Arts, Educational Technology, Foreign Languages, Health and Safety, Mathematics, Physical Education, and Science.

Gateway to Educational Materials

The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

National Education Association

Website of the National Education Association, the nation's largest professional employee organization and is committed to advancing the cause of public education. Includes areas for Members and Educators, Parents and Community, Issues in Education, and a Legislative Action Center. Provides access to the following publications: Newsletter Higher Education Advocate, Thought and Action.

YALSA: Young Adult Library Services Association

Provides booklists and award winners for young adults, teens and those that are college bound. Sponsors Teen Read Week. YALSA is a division of the American Library Association.