Entries marked with link to full text articles online.

Interdisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Premier 
  References to articles from approximately 8,000 scholarly journals (about half of them full text) covering a wide range of academic areas, 1975 to current (coverage varies). Included is a searchable collection of images.
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online 
  Includes the complete encyclopedia, the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica
  Book of the Year, and thousands of links to World Wide Web sites selected by Britannica editors.
• LexisNexis Academic 
  Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
• Reference Collections Online
  • Credo Reference
    Online access to a selection from 240 reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, as well as many subject-specific titles) from the world's leading publishers.
  • Oxford Reference Online 
    Online access to over 170 cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press, one of the world's most trusted reference publishers.

For access to more complete list of general interest resources see the General Interest Databases page.

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Specialized Education Databases

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
  The online version, published daily, providing news, information, and editorials on all facets of higher education, with reference lists of relevant research, books, seminars, workshops, fellowships, grants, and job listings, 1995 to current.
• College Source Online
  Over 8,900 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools, many beginning 1994 to current (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader ).
• Education Abstracts 
  References to articles (some full text) from  478 core English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks covering all aspects of education.
• ERIC
  Presently the largest education database in the world, the ERIC database references journal articles, research documents, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education,1966 to current.
• ERIC via FirstSearch
  Some full text provided.
• ERIC via EBSCO
  Search ERIC concurrently with a specialized collection of full text journals and other publications designed for professional educators.
• ERIC via Ovid
  Ovid provides advanced searching features including relevancy ranking and "mapping" to ERIC descriptor terms.
• JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive
  An historical, fulltext archive of core journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
• Kraus Curriculum Development Library
  A searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards covering educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.  Microfiche documents available on the 3rd floor, Library.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
  Full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks," 9th to 17th Yearbooks (July 2007).
• Primary Search
  References to articles (some full text) from popular, elementary school magazines, 1984 to current. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.
• Professional Development Collection
  References to articles (some full text) from a highly specialized collection of journals for professional educators, 1965 to current.
• PsycINFO
  Covers the worldwide professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including references and abstracts to over 2,150 journals. Also includes references to dissertations, book chapters, and books, 1806 to current.
• SPORTDiscus
  References to articles and books in the following areas of sport: recreation; exercise physiology; sports medicine; coaching; physical fitness; the psychology, history and sociology of sport; training; and conditioning, 1949 to current.

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