Education Electronic Databases
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Research Options for Kids
Grolier
Online
Consists of two online encyclopedias: Grolier Multimedia and The New Book of Knowledge. Courtesy NRMLS
Kids Search
Kids Search is a colorful interface that's designed for students through the eighth grade, and for teachers. It searches the Primary Search database, a children's dictionary and encyclopedia, and a collection of images. The Teacher Resources include Academic Search Elite, the Professional Development Collection and ERIC. via EBSCOHost, courtesy NOBLE
Kids InfoBits
Targeting the research needs of grades K-5 students. this resources incudes Blackbirch Press curriculum support references, 100 full-text age appropriate magazines and 2 newswires. Graphs, charts, maps and over 2,500 searchable images. via InfoTrac, courtesy MBLC
Info Trac K-12 Junior Edition
Designed for junior high and middle school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. via InfoTrac, courtesy MBLC
Info Trac K-12 Student Edition
Designed for secondary school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. via InfoTrac, courtesy MBLC
Consists of two online encyclopedias: Grolier Multimedia and The New Book of Knowledge. Courtesy NRMLS
Kids Search
Kids Search is a colorful interface that's designed for students through the eighth grade, and for teachers. It searches the Primary Search database, a children's dictionary and encyclopedia, and a collection of images. The Teacher Resources include Academic Search Elite, the Professional Development Collection and ERIC. via EBSCOHost, courtesy NOBLE
Kids InfoBits
Targeting the research needs of grades K-5 students. this resources incudes Blackbirch Press curriculum support references, 100 full-text age appropriate magazines and 2 newswires. Graphs, charts, maps and over 2,500 searchable images. via InfoTrac, courtesy MBLC
Info Trac K-12 Junior Edition
Designed for junior high and middle school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. via InfoTrac, courtesy MBLC
Info Trac K-12 Student Edition
Designed for secondary school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. via InfoTrac, courtesy MBLC
- Educator's Reference Complete A&I FT
- "Use this mainly full-text collection of over 1100 periodicals and 200 reports for educational research from preschool to college. Every educational specialty can be found here including technology, health and bilingual education, testing, and issues in administration, funding and policy." via InfoTrac
- Education Research Complete A&I FT
- Education Research Complete. This database is enormous and contains all 501 titles indexed in Education Index from Wilson and 866 additional titles. In whole it has 750 active full text journals, indexes over 1,500 journals and includes full text for more than 80 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. It spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Of interest is the fact that this database contains the full text of Educational Leadership with no embargo and the Journal of Higher Education with no embargo. via EBSCOHost
- ERIC A&I
- contains citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests. (via EBSCOhost)
- Academic Search Premiere A&IFT
- provides indexing and selected full-text articles in a variety of disciplines including education and education-related topics.(via EBSCOhost)
- Expanded Academic ASAP A&IFT
- provides indexing and selected full-text to scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers.(via INFOTRAC)
- JSTOR FT
- provides full-text core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, many of which date back to the 1800's.
- Professional Development Collection A&IFT
- Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. (via EBSCOHost)
- PsycArticles FT
- PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 52 journals. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present. (via EBSCOHost)
- PsycINFO A&I
- Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, all in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage back to 1887. (via EBSCOHost)