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ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Encyclopedia of Education
World Education Encyclopedia
Kay A. Buchanan
Education Library
434-982-2664
kaybuchanan@virginia.edu
University of Virginia Library
PO Box 400113
Charlottesville VA 22904-4113
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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.
This database contains information and reviews on children's books, videos and audio books ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults.
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.
Get articles from journals and proceedings published by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education on all aspects of educational technology and e-learning.
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.
This fully-revised second edition offers a complete view of the institutions, people, processes, roles and philosophies found in educational practice in the United States and throughout the world. Features include 121 biographies of influential educators; profiles of historic colleges and universities; profiles of organizations active in the field; and an appendix of full text primary source documents including education related legislation, international treaties and testing methods
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.
A search in this database will retrieve short fulltext articles providing an overview of the topic.
Horn Book Guide publishes short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people. As of 2003 there were more than 49,000 reviews published.
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.
Database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. Includes PDF reproductions of complete curriculum documents from school systems covering core disciplines such as math, science, English and language arts, foreign language, and social studies.
Tool for journal evaluation, using citation data taken from over 8,000 journals in the areas of science and technology. Used to find impact factors. EgenFactor is a competitor of JCR.
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings.
Indexes over 230 journals covering libraries, information science, copyright, publishing, and the history of the book. Includes book reviews. Full text of selected journals begins with 1994.
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.
Searchable full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, mostly from North American university presses. Older volumes are often available from JSTOR.
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).
Publications of all kinds on topics such as kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, dance, fitness tests, sports equipment, sports law, medicine and business, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.
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.
International database covering sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, coaching, recreation, and more. Includes book reviews.
TRC indexes over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Web of Knowledge includes Science Citation Index (1970-), Social Sciences Citation Index (1981-), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1981-), which can be searched together or separately. Daily updates make it a good source for very recent information. Citations include number of times the article has been cited and Journal Citation Reports (JCR), uses that to find impact factors for journals in science and technology.
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.
