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Education Databases

ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.

This URL provides the familiar EBSCO user interface. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Education Resource Information Center (U.S. Government Website)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. This URL takes patrons to the government's interface, NOT EBSCO. There is a difference in search capabilities and result presentation.

The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
JSTOR
JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive (i.e., not current). 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.

Currency of journals will greatly vary by publisher. Some journals date to the 1800s and are nearly full runs except for the most recent issues. If you need a more recent issue, use the citation in an Interlibrary Journal Request Form. request.
NexisUni (formerly Lexis-Nexis Academic)
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, federal, and state cases including state laws. including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Also includes full text news, business, education, medical and reference information.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, this resource is essential for evaluating contemporary testing instruments. Designed for novices and professionals alike, it contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print. Much more detail in the More Info section.

All Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) entries contain descriptive information (test purpose, publisher, pricing, population and scores) and edited reviews written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, published in the English language and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series.

Content Includes:
• Full-text reviews of 3,000+ contemporary testing instruments
• All previous editions of the yearbook dating back to 1938 (10,000+ full-text reviews)
• Tests In Print (TIP) — a bibliographical database to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,835,480 theses and dissertations.
Professional Development Collection
• An on-line journal index in education with many full-text journal titles and more than 200 educational reports.

Includes: Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Reading Teacher, and School Library Journal among others.

Date Coverage: 1963 to present; coverage varies by title.
ProQuest Dissertations: Humanities & Social Sciences
Includes doctoral dissertations and master's theses for the humanities and social sciences. This includes education, psychology, sociology, business, economics, literature, history, criminal justice, etc.

This is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses and is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides access to more than 18 million articles and book chapters from over 1,750 active journals and 39,000 books to help users discover more novel science, use their time efficiently, and make decisions with the highest-quality scientific information.

Our collection includes Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities (including Arts, Business, Education, Management and Accounting, Decision Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Psychology).
Teacher Reference Center
• Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators

USEFUL JSTOR JOURNALS

JSTOR - Education Titles
JSTOR has 156 journal titles which may be of interest to you. This links shows you the title list.
JSTOR - Law Titles
JSTOR has 110 titles archived in the field of law. This link displays the title list of those journals.
JSTOR - Public Policy Titles
JSTOR has archived 33 journals pertaining to public policy and administration. This list presents the title list.

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES

Multi-Disciplinary Databases
This group of databases is general and cover many different academic disciplines. If you are still not finding something useful, give these a try.

These library resources below are used quite regularly by our students and may be useful as you work with the databases.

Interlibrary Loan - Journal Article Form
Articles can take 24-72 hours to arrive in your Inbox.
Interlibrary Loan Book Form
Our courier service delivers local items every Tuesday and Friday.
Library Classic Catalog
This searches for both E-books and print books. Click the radio buttons or dropdown menus to maximize your options.
Journal Locator
Locate specific journal publications by name or search journal titles with certain keywords (e.g., computer, chemistry, etc.)
Credo Reference
Need an overview of a topic or more specific details? Credo Reference consists of over 300 reference titles consisting of an aggregate of 3.1 million entries. It is a great place to find biographical information or other general information about concepts and theories.
Self-Guided Research Help
The library's 24/7 help center with tutorials and videos on a wide range of research topics.
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