Databases for Education
Best Bets
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| ERIC |
Sources include journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. Each year approximately 30,000 new records are added. |
1966-present |
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| Education Research Complete |
The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,780 journals, as well as full text for more than 870 journals. |
Coverge varies |
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| Childrens Literature Comprehensive Database |
The reviews come from 36 review sources, including Children's Literature; The Horn Book Magazine; Kirkus; Media & Methods; and Parent's Guide. |
1993-present |
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| Teacher Reference Center |
Index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. |
1960s-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Campus Research |
Law-related resources, news, and business information including federal and state cases, American Law Reports, SEC Filings, and Hoover's Company Records |
1990s-present |
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| Chronicle of Higher Education |
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the primary source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. |
1989-present |
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| Education Law in North Carolina |
For North Carolina school officials and administrators, legal information pertinent to the management of schools and school systems |
Current |
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| Family and Society Studies Worldwide |
Provides 1 million bibliographic records drawn from over a thousand professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, government reports, and other sources, many of which are ind |
1970-present |
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| LearningExpress Library |
LearningExpress Library offers over 300 online test resources, including a wide variety of tests preparation, skill builders, and courses, as well as more than 130 e-Books. |
Current |
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| Physical Education Index |
Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. |
1970-present |
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| PsycINFO |
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles (over 2,500 journals), book chapters, books, and |
1887-present |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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| Congressional Publications (ProQuest) |
Daily Congressional news from the National Journal and Congress Daily, Congressional working papers and legislation, information about Congress members, and more |
1970-present |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Provides full text access to more than 100 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. |
2000-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| LexisNexis Academic |
News, business information, medical and health topics, and law-related resources |
1990s-present |
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| Mental Measurements Yearbook |
Produced by the Buros Institute, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. |
Volume 9 (1986)-present |
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