Research Resources: Education
How to Find Articles in Magazines, Journals and Newspapers
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Scholarly
ERIC- ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center is the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. ERIC provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials at no charge.
- Also: ERIC in EBSCOhost and ERIC in FirstSearch
- Professional Development Collection
- Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles.
- Teacher Reference Center
- Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
- JSTOR
- Full-text journal archives across the curriculum including 46 education journals.
- Project Muse
- Coverage: 1995-present. Full text of over 100 scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, from Johns Hopkins University Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press and others. Search full text across all journals in the database or in selected journal titles. Individual titles listed in NKUIRE. Covers eleven education titles.
- Selected Education Periodicals
- Dissertations and Theses
- Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.
Library and Information Science
Library Literature Online- Index to professional literature in the field of Library and Information Science.
- Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
College and University Information
College Source Online- Provides full text (in PDF format) of 12,000 college catalogs, including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools. Searchable by major, geographic location, tuition, enrollment, affiliation, and other criteria.
Career and Technical Education
Career and Technical Information- Coverage: 1991 - present. Fulltext for 380 publications. [Proquest]
Coaching
Coaching Science Abstracts- "These abstracts interpret research articles for practicing coaches and others interested in applied sport science."
Appropriate for K-12
- MAS Ultra - School Edition
- Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 252 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.
- Middle Search Plus
- Provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
- Primary Search
- Coverage: Provides full text for more than 50 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
created by: Jennifer Smith, August 7, 2006 Tuesday, 15-Nov-2005 12:53:23 EST