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Education Subject Guide
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Indexes
General
WilsonWeb OmniFile
A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.
Academic Search Complete 
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
Britannica Online
Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Subject
ERIC is the Education Resources Information Center, from the U.S. Department of Education. Search for journal articles and other ERIC publications in this database which includes more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966 and some full-text. Use the online ERIC Thesaurus to help you select appropriate search terms.
ERIC
WilsonWeb's ERIC database (The Educational Resources Information Center) provides access to education literature and resources, listing citations and abstracts for over 1,000 comprehensively indexed educational and education-related journals, primarily American, along with some Canadian and British publications. The ERIC collection includes annotated bibliographic records, including journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other education-related materials. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 200,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
LexisNexis Statistical:
Allows users to search summaries, then link to the full-text of selected statistical publications on LexisNexis Statistical and government web sites.
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E-Sources
Journals
JSTOR
is an archive of scholarly journals, including many education journals. Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.
SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including education (formerly Kluwer Journals).
Wiley Journals Search in peer-reviewed education journals and access full-text articles.
Reference Works
A to Z Maps Online is the worlds largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month. See Educational-Teach Tools under the main menu.
ICPSR is the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. It provides social science data and resources for researchers.
K-12 Resources
Atomic Learning * Atomic Learning provides web-based software training and curriculum resources for more than 100 applications that students and educators use daily. Atomic Learning focuses on answering common questions people have when learning popular software packages. Thousands of short, easy-to-understand tutorial movies and a library of curriculum resources are provided for integral use as part of a professional development program, or as a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere software training resource.
* This resource is available to the Department of Education faculty and students. Please contact Dr. John White for the necessary information to login and use this resource.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: Volume 1 A-F
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: Volume 2 G-P
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairytales: Volume 3 Q-Z
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature comprehensively documents and interprets children's books worldwide. This global perspective pays attention to significant international trends and multicultural expansion of the field. Brief biographies of every major author and illustrator are included. Essays are featured on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children's literature in many countries throughout the world.
Roger Taylor Curriculum Guides Dr. T. Roger Taylor, in his 35 years as a classroom teacher, administrator, professor and internationally-known educational consultant, has authored/co-authored over 5000 integrated, interdisciplinary thematic curriculum units. The units are written based on the AHA (Analyzing Human Activities) model created by Dr. Taylor.
Books
netLibrarycollection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.
You are allowed to print one page at a time using your Web browser's print function or the print function on the Adobe Acrobat toolbar. Printing the entire eContent item violates copyright laws and precautions are taken to protect those copyright laws.
About the Catalog
Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.
Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.
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Curriculum planning
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Multicultural education
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Public schools--United States
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Secondary education
Internet Sites
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Certification Requirements in 50 States The University of Kentucky's College of Education provides a site to track teacher certification.
- Connexions: Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities This global repository of educational materials offers tools for developing curriculum materials.
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EducationDegree.com is a directory of 18,000+ teacher education programs (both undergrad and graduate) from over 1,200 schools across the US, including over 570 Alternative Certification programs.
EducationWeek on the Web Read the latest news on important issues in American education.
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Educator's Reference Desk provides links to over 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues, more than 2000 unique lesson plans, and an archive of over 200 responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education. The site also provides separate links to search in the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and in ERIC.
- Encyclopedia of Educational Technology Provides short multimedia articles that help create a foundation for incorporating technology in education. This site gives definitions and overviews on various topics in the fields of instructional design and education and training.
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GEM, the Gateway to Educational Materials provides access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
Illuminated Books: A Free Access Digital Library of Illuminated & Illustrated Books This website offers access to images of complete books with illustrative content or children's books. Images are high resolution and provide copyright information.
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National Center for Education Statistics Access to data collected by the National Center for Educational Statisics
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is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
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Children's Literature Web Guide: Internet Resources for Children and Young Adults is by David K. Brown of the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources of the University of Calgary. One of the links on this site is to on-line children's stories.
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World Wide Web Virtual Library: Education
About the Department
Citing Sources
- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition (BF76.7 .P83 2001)
or click on Style Manuals to locate guidelines for using correct APA citation format.
