Databases
- Articles
- Tests & Mental Measurements
- Table of Contents Notification & Document Delivery Services
- Dissertations
- Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Library Catalogs
Articles
- Abstracts for more than 850,000 references to education and counseling journals (EJ) as well as published and unpublished educational materials such as school system reports, conference papers, research reports, and dissertations (ED). Largely English-language.
- Most journals (EJ) available in Jackson Library. Most ERIC Documents (ED) available on microfiche in Documents/Microforms area on 2nd Floor Main in Jackson Library.
- Some recent ED numbers available in full text
- 1966 to present
- More info on ERIC via EBSCO
- More info on ERIC via Institute of Education Sciences
PsycINFO
- Provides abstracts for over 1,300 periodicals, book chapters and books in psychology, counseling, psychiatry and related areas.
- Large number of foreign language titles.
- Jackson Library owns many of the core, English-language journals.
- 1872 to present
- More info
Child Development and Adolescent Studies
- Covers the growth and development of children through the age of 21.
- Indexes articles, book reviews, technical reports, books, book chapters, theses, and dissertations.
- More info
Social Science Citation Index: SSCI (Web of Science)
- Provides citations (no full-text), author abstracts, and cited references (footnotes to a scholarly article) to more than 2,100 peer-reviewed social science journals.
- Dates of coverage: 1956 to present.
- Covers K-12, higher, special, and physical education, historical topics in the social sciences, substance abuse, school administration, counseling, library science, educational psychology, and educational research.
- Includes the capability to perform a cited reference search, which allows you to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent, or another article.
- Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more.
- Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Education journals by using Journal Citations Reports.
- More info
- Searches Education Full Text and Education Index Retrospective simultaneously.
- Indexes almost 500 English-language periodicals and yearbooks as well as some books
- Strong on educational and psychological topics including all educational levels, educational administration, child development, and counseling
- 1929 to present; abstracts since 1994; full text since 1996
- More info
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
- Covers articles from more than 1800 scholarly and popular periodicals, two-thirds of them full-text, in all subject areas. Includes full-text of many of the core counseling journals.
- 1984 to present;Full text since 1990 but varies by title
- More info
- Biomedical literature covering psychology and psychiatry journals.
- Useful for topics such as counseling for healthy lifestyles, vocational counseling of medical personnel, mental health issues, and sex counseling.
- 1965 to date
- More info on PubMed
- Mix of 2,500 scholarly and popular journals, many full-text, from a variety of disciplines
- Limited indexing of counseling and psychology journals
- full text for 8 counseling journals since about 1994
- 1971 to present; full text dates vary by title
- More info
- Provides detailed statistical information (impact factor and total cites) to more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science journals.
- Dates of coverage: 1997 to present.
- Corresponds to the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index.
- Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Social Sciences (includes Education) journals and for the Science journals.
- More info
Tests & Mental Measurements
- Contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology and related areas.
- Does not have full text of the tests.
- 1972 to present
- More info
- Provides practice tests and tutorial course series for GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, Praxis, Nursing Assistant, ACT, SAT, ASVAB, GED, and other educational and occupational tests.
- Provides immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of test results.
- More info
Table of Contents Notification & Document Delivery Services
Ingenta (formerly Carl UnCover Reveal)
- Provides a searchable database of the tables of contents from over 25,000 journals.
- The records in this database are not searchable by subject; however, you can search for keywords in article titles.
- Useful for locating citations to articles available in a few of the core library and information science journals.
- Ingenta also provides a notification service that delivers the table of contents of your favorite journals directly to your e-mail box.
- The library underwrites document delivery service through Ingenta. On request, the full text of an article can be sent to any UNCG student, faculty, or staff member.
- Dates of coverage: 1988 to present.
- More info
Dissertations
- Indexes dissertations (no full-text) accepted at accredited US institutions; includes abstracts for dissertations since July 1980.
- Dates of coverage: 1861 to the present date.
- Selectively covers dissertations from Canada, the United Kingdom, and a few other countries.
- Also indexes masters theses, with abstracts for theses since 1988.
- Can limit to Institution and type in University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- Like most academic libraries, UNCG owns few dissertations and theses completed at other institutions. If you need such a dissertation or thesis, use Inter-Library Loan.
- More info
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Contains descriptions of over 10,000 tests and research instruments from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Tests in Microfiche Collection and ERIC Document Reproduction Service, tests described in journal articles or book chapters, and descriptions that were created or verified after 1989 of commercially available tests. Tests listed in the collection are NOT available from ERIC/AE; however, those from ETS are available on microfiche in Jackson Library: microfiche LB1131 .T550.
- More info
Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Provides the full text of the many specialized encyclopedias, including:
- Encyclopedia of Education
- World Education Encyclopedia
- Child Development
- Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
- More info
Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- Full text of the print encyclopedia plus more up-to-date articles not yet available in the printed version. Also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, and thousands of WWW links selected by Britannica editors.
- More info
Library Catalogs
WorldCat
- Union catalog of materials held in libraries world-wide
- More info
School of Education Subject Guides
- Curriculum and Instruction Resources
- Counseling and Educational Development Resources
- Educational Research Methodology Resources
- Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations Resources
- Library and Information Studies Resources
- Specialized Education Services Resources
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Mary Krautter
CED Librarian
