Resources for Education Majors

Provides full text for nearly 4,650 journals (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications) in nearly every area of academic study.

Children's Literature reviewers read and critically review more than 4,000 books annually. Children's Literature reviewers include book authors, librarians, writers and editors, teachers, children's literature specialists and physicians. Each month Children's Literature features interviews with children's book authors and illustrators.

Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with summaries of the issues. Full text. Five simultaneous users.

Online version of 17 print books devoted to the daily lives of people throughout the past.

This will search several databases helpful to Education majors at once using the EBSCO interface. Databases include Academic Search Premier, Education Research Complete, ERIC, Professional Development Collection, PsycINFO and SocINDEX.

Large database that provides coverage of all aspects of education, including curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Offers some full text.

Available through EBSCO. Links to full text other databases.

Free version of ERIC from the National Library of Education.

A collection of full text electronic reference books covering many subject areas. Can be searched by keyword, source, subject, image caption, full text, and audience. Individual books can be combined for cross-title searching.

Designed for junior high and middle schools. Provides magazine and newspaper articles.

Provides access to the full text of over 300 scholarly journals across many subject areas. The objective of JSTOR is to provide all issues back to Volume 1, Issue 1 for all journals. (Due to copyright restrictions, the most recent 3-5 years are unavailable.)

For students in grades K-8. Students can search by topic (with graphical representations) or by keywords and results include reference books, magazines, photos and more. Results come from Primary Search, Newspaper Source, TopicSearch, Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and EBSCO Animals.

Four simultaneous users. The print version is located in Milne Library Reference REF LB1131 .B93.

A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, and annotations for over 135,000 fiction titles for all ages, including picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. Updated monthly.

Contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. Updated monthly.

Contains about 2000 viewpoint articles, 1000 topic overviews, 700 court case overviews, and 30 full text periodicals and newspapers. The Research Guide provides tips on analyzing issues with opposing viewpoints, distinguishing fact from opinion, evaluating information sources, and recognizing deceptive arguments.

Full text of about 500 education journals (about 350 are peer-reviewed). Includes full text of the Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to the present (with a one month delay).

Full text of over 100 scholarly journals in fields including literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, gender studies, and economics.

Current events database provides full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources.

Provides access to over 100,000 searchable full text articles from 48 journals published by the American Psychological Association from 1894 to the present.

Covers 1887 to the present. Provides worldwide coverage to literature in psychology and related disciplines. Links to full text articles in other databases. PsycARTICLES provides access to over 100,000 searchable full text articles from 48 journals published by the American Psychological Association from 1894 to the present.

SocINDEX is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This index features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociology-specific. This file also contains informative abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 630 "priority" coverage journals as well as 2,840 "selective" coverage journals.