Emmanuel d'Alzon
Library
Education and Library
Science Databases
Academic OneFile
Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.
Academic
Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 3,970 journals covering the social sciences, humanities,
general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more. Full text
and abstracts from 1958 to present.
Blackbirch
Kid's Visual Reference of the United States
Contains
more than 2,500 graphs, charts, maps, and photos that cover the most important
and interesting facts about every state in the country.
Blackbirch
Kid's Visual Reference of the World
Presents more than 2,500 graphs, charts, maps, and
photos that cover the most important and interesting facts about every country
on the planet.
Books in Print
More than 4 million records, updated weekly. Records describe in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos from more than 44,000 North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers.
The
Chronicle of Higher Education
Provides news, information, and jobs for college and
university faculty members and administrators.
ClasePeriodica -
Index of Latin American
journals in the sciences and humanities from 1975 to the present.
CQ Researcher
Published 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Educator's Reference Complete (formerly Professional Collection)
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.
Encyclopedia Americana
Contains additional materials, including maps, flags, tables, and links to related sites on the World Wide Web.
ERIC
Available via EBSCO. Coverage is from 1966 to the present. This is a database
of citations and abstracts from nearly 1,000 educational journals plus full
text of educational documents and papers.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
This database is funded by the Massachusetts Board of
Library Commissioners. Coverage is from 1980 to the present. This is a database
of periodicals covering all major academic disciplines including many articles
in full text.
General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
In
the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal
Narratives
Personal narratives- the
most comprehensive archive of social memory. Covers many topics including historical
events and people from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine,
Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th.
Junior
Edition
Funded by Mass. Bd. of Library Commissioners & Central Mass Region
Designed for junior high and middle school students. Access to full-text magazines,
newspapers and reference books.
Student
Edition
Funded by Mass. Bd. of Library Commissioners & Central Mass Region
Designed for high school students. Access to full-text magazines, newspapers
and reference books.
JSTOR
Available via JSTOR. Coverage is from the first issues to the last 3-5 years.
This is a database of over 100 full text scholarly journal titles including
some volumes dating back to the nineteenth century.
Kids
InfoBits
Kids InfoBits is a database
developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade
5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface. The
curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary
reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events,
the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
LISTA
(Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) This world-class bibliographic
database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification,
cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management
and more.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Coverage is from 1938 to the present. This database
contains full text information about English language standardized tests and
also contains test reviews. This is the online version of the printed volumes.
Multimedia
Encyclopedia
Containing thousands of
articles, extensive hyperlinking, bibliographies and links to other sources
of information on the Web. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online is updated
monthly.
Primary Search
Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research.
Project
MUSE
Available via John Hopkins University Press. Coverage is from 1993 to the present.
This is a database of over 100 full text scholarly journals mainly within the
past five years.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES™ is a
database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological
Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological
Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from
the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists.
PsycINFO
Available via EBSCO. Coverage is from 1887 to the present. This is a comprehensive
database with international coverage of scholarly literature in psychology.
Includes articles from more than 1300 periodicals in over 25 languages.
Teacher Reference Center
Indexes more than 260 periodicals and trade journals for educators and librarians. Covers assessment, best practices, continuing education, curriculum development, etc.
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