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The following is a list of online databases available in the Frederick Douglass Library to assist you with research in Education.

Educational Psychology General Special Education Additional Resources

Educational Psychology

Education Journals
Education Journals searches the leading full-text journals in education and related fields.

ERIC via EBSCO
It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and ...

ERIC via Cambridge

Mental Measurements Yearbook 
The Mental Measurements Yearbook provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.

PsycARTICLES    
PsycArticles contains more than 25,000 full text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations.  Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection  
This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

PsycINFO    
PsycINFO contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.  Journal coverage, which spans from 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.

Social Science Abstracts
This database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 520 publications.

Sociological Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for articles in over 1,700 journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations. Many records for key journals in sociology, published since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article.

Tests in Print
TIP serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

General

Chronicle of Higher Education
Provides information on all facets of higher education in the United States, Canada, and abroad, with reference lists of relevant research, books, seminars, workshops, fellowships, and grants; for senior administrative, business, and academic officers. Full-text covered is included back to 1995

College Source Online
Contains over 25,900 complete college catalogs with links to the school's home page, financial aid information, and career information. All U.S. schools are accredited.

Education Journals
Education Journals searches the leading full-text journals in education and related fields.

ERIC via EBSCO
It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and ...

ERIC via Cambridge

JSTOR
Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of journals with full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years.

Library Literature & Information Science Abstracts (LISTA)
An index of more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings 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.

MAS Ultra - School Edition
Full-text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications, as well as 253 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.

Professional Development Collection    
The database provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.

Physical Education Index    
Physical Education Index features a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.

Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

Testing & Education Reference Center
This database to searches thousands of college and graduate school entries and identifies scholarships that meet their financial needs. Use Testing & Education Reference Center to take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.

Special Education

Education Journals
Education Journals searches the leading full-text journals in education and related fields.

ERIC via EBSCO
It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and ...

ERIC via Cambridge

Additional Resources

 

For assistance with these databases, please consult a Reference Librarian.

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