Education Subject Guide

Indexes and Databases

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Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities - Education
Provides a detailed listing of journals providing publishing opportunities in education and related fields (curriculum, administration, educational psychology, educational technology, and library science). Entries include name of the journal, address, contact information, & guidelines for submitting manuscripts.
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Education Abstracts  Indexes more than 700 English-language periodicals in education. Coverage: 1983 to the present, abstracts from 1994. Updated weekly.

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Full-text resources in education methodology, higher education,
secondary education, vocational, measurement & testing, & educational psychology.  Updated weekly.  Note: Not every journal will have new data each week.
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Educator's Reference Complete  Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of 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. The database is updated daily.

ERIC 
The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial

LearningExpress Library (formerly LearnATest)  Includes preparation materials and interactive practice exams for numerous standardized tests such as MEAP, GED, SAT, and GRE. Also includes tests for professions such as law enforcement and real estate. This free service does require that you register a username or email address. Michigan residents can access this database from the Michigan eLibrary by logging on with a Michigan ID or driver's license number.

ProQuest Research Library  Indexes popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and trade publications in a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full-text available for over 2,500 journals. Coverage from 1971.

PsycARTICLES  Full-text access to over 75 major peer-reviewed psychology journals. Coverage varies. Updated weekly.

Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Full-text resources in applied psychology, assessment, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, and social psychology. Updated weekly. Note: Not every journal will have new data each week.
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PsycINFO  Psychological Abstracts BF 1 .P65 (General Stacks)
Covers world-wide literature in psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, and dissertations are included. Coverage: 1887-present. Updated weekly.
Use the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms for subject words: BF1 .P65x 2007 (Education Lib. and Waldo Ref.)

Wilson Select Plus  Index to full text articles in science, humanities, social sciences, education and business. The index includes records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Coverage: 1994 to the present. Updated weekly.

General Indexes

Medline (FirstSearch)  The major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1965 - present. Updated daily.

• RefWorks Info: Medline will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)

Social Sciences Abstracts  Indexes over 600 periodicals in anthropology, economics, ethnic studies, feminist studies, geography, human services, international relations, law and criminology, police science, political science, population studies, psychology, public administration, public health, social work, sociology, urban studies, and related social science subjects. Coverage: indexing from 1983 and abstracts from 1994. Updated weekly.
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Web of Science  Contains three major databases: (1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), (2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and (3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work.   Tutorial

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RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "Web of Science".

Directories

College Source Online  Contains over 27,000 college catalogs including 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Available only in Waldo Library.
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Dissertations

Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest)  Indexes virtually all doctoral dissertations and many masters theses produced in the U.S. since 1860 and many from foreign schools as well. Abstracts available from 1980. Full text for most dissertations available from 1997. Some authors choose to not make their dissertations available. Print and microfilm copies are offered for a fee, but check out Interlibrary Loan before paying for a copy.

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Tests & Measurements

Mental Measurements Yearbook  Contains overviews, descriptions and one or more reviews of many English-language standardized tests of educational skills, personality, psychological traits, and related areas. Entries also give references to the print edition (s).
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