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Kay A. Buchanan
Education Library
434-982-2664
kaybuchanan@virginia.edu
University of Virginia Library
PO Box 400113
Charlottesville VA 22904-4113
434.924.3021
fax: 434.924.1431
Focuses on scholarly literature from a broad range of disciplines. Academic OneFile sorts results by categories, including Academic Journals, Magazines, Reference, News, and Multimedia. It also allows you to limit articles to peer-reviewed publications.
Research Connections provides researchers, policymakers, policy influencers, and practitioners with one-stop access to a continually updated, comprehensive, and searchable collection of Original Research and related resources including Syntheses, Datasets, Statistics, Instruments and Measures, and comparative State Data Tools.
Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.
Large database listing articles from many publishers, usually with links to full text.
Search for articles about all aspects of education from over 500 international English-language periodicals and yearbooks published before 1984. See Education Full Text for coverage 1983-present.
Search for articles from over 500 English-language periodicals and yearbooks about all aspects of education. Includes abstracts of articles published after 1984. This version adds the full text of articles from recent years of over 300 journals. Indexing includes book reviews. See Education Index Retro for coverage 1929-1983.
and ERIC
(EBSCO) 1966-present
This database provides citations and abstracts for education-related journal and magazine articles. It also provides full text access to "unpublished" items such as conference papers, technical reports, some doctoral dissertations, monographs, government reports, etc. from 1993- present. The ERIC database supplies only the citations for the "unpublished" items from 1966-1992, however, the full text is available on microfiche in the ERIC Microfiche collection in the UVA Education Library. Three organizations, CSA, EBSCO, and the U.S. Government provide access to the ERIC database. They may update their respective versions of the database at different times, but otherwise the content is the same. However, the U.S. Government version of the ERIC database (http://eric.ed.gov/) does not include Find@UVa links leading to full text access to journal articles.
Large general database of articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Search for journal articles on all aspects of the nature and use of language. Includes book reviews. Updated monthly.
Contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. For each test, the database provides the name of the test author, publication information, scoring information, and the number of the Mental Measurements Yearbook in which the test was described originally. The full text for each record includes reliability and validity, an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test.
Citations of papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses and symposia.
Search for articles and book reviews in over 4000 international humanities and social sciences journals published from 1770 to the 1990s. Includes links to full text of articles in Periodicals Archive Online and in humanities and social science titles at JSTOR. Formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index (PCI).
Full text of articles from 45 psychology journals. Use PsycINFO to search for specific articles.
Searchable full text of 30 psychology journals published by Sage and some associated societies.
Covers journal articles in more than 30 languages and books in English about psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education.
Full text of articles from journals published by Elsevier Science.
Sociology and related fields. All languages. 2600 scholarly journals. Includes book, book chapter, and conference paper abstracts and book reviews. Updated quarterly.
Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) gathers studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies). It review the studies that have the strongest design, and report on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC Evidence Standards.
