ref LB15 .O270
Education: a Guide to Reference and Information Sources, 2nd ed. 2000.ref. LB 1028 .B4
Research in Education. 2006.ref. LB 1715 .A440
Directory of Members. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
ref. LB15. E47 2003
Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd ed.ref. LA 225 .H54 2002
Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia.ref. LB15 .G68 2003
Greenwood Dictionary of Education. 2003.ref LB1139.25 .E53
Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education. 1992.ref LC3957 .V470
Dictionary of Special Education and Rehabilitation. 1997.ref HQ772 .G27
The Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence. 1997.ref LC4007 .E53
Encyclopedia of Special Education. 2000.ref HQ 772 .C436
Child Development. 2002.ref LB2805 .E527 2006
Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. 2006.
ERIC
The most widely used education database, ERIC (U.S. Department of Educational Resource Information Center) contains indexing and abstracts from thousands of research and technical reports in the Resources In Education Index (ED numbers) and from more than 750 education and education-related journals in the Current Index to Journals in Education (EJ numbers). Excellent for topics dealing with schools of all types and levels, parent-school relationships, counseling, college teaching, educational ethics, student discipline, and so on. Coverage from the 1960s.Education Full Text
Indexes over 400 education journals dating from 1984; about half of the journals include some full text. There are advantages and disadvantages of this database as compared to ERIC. Advantages: this database indexes most of the core education journals and many of them are full text. Disadvantages: subject headings are not as varied or clear as ERIC nor is the subject coverage as deep or varied so it can be hard to find the right terms to get articles on your topic.Child Development and Adolescent Studies
Indexes materials relating to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide.
--Covers 1927 to presentAcademic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Provides abstracts for almost 8,000 scholarly and popular journals covering topics across the disciplines including education, sociology and psychology. Aside from Education Full Text, Academic Search Premier may have a little better coverage of full text education, child development, and psychology materials than Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) or ProQuest Research Library .
-- Considerable full-text dating back to 1990 with some as far back as 1975.
--Multiple EBSCO databases can be searched at the same time. For example Academic Search Premier, ERIC, and Business Source Premier would be a good combination of databases to check for articles on organizational management or institutional finances.PsycINFO via EBSCOhost
Provides citations and abstracts for over 1900 journals written in over 25 languages, as well as book chapters, books, technical reports, and selected dissertations in psychology and related disciplines such as counseling, sociology, social work, medicine, nursing, and psychiatry. Covers such topics as behavior modification, leadership qualities, and organizational structure. Large number of foreign language titles. Jackson library owns or has access to many of the core, English-language titles and the database links to the full text of many of the articles.
--1872 to presentSocial Science Citation Index (Web of Science)
Provides citations, author abstracts, and cited references (footnotes to a scholarly article) to more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science journals. Corresponds to the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. 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 the Journal Citations Reports for the Science journals (most recent data on diskette at the Reserves Desk, Jackson Library).
-- 1956 to present.Lexis-Nexis Academic
Full text articles from over 7500 journals, magazines, transcripts, newspapers, editorials, newsletters, and other sources. Covers news, business, law, medicine, government, and other types of information. Especially good for short articles on current issues and for newspaper articles on issues and programs relevant to North Carolina. Updated daily except for newspapers which are usually updated within 48 hours.
--Dates of coverage vary by publication.
To find articles on a specific geographic area, click on Guided News Search, select U.S. News from the drop-down menu in News Category, then select your geographic area from the News Source menu. Enter your search terms. You can use the default search for Headline, Lead Paragraph, Terms or switch to Full Text. Select a time period from the drop-down menu. Finally, click on the red Search box.
The "Legal Research" section includes legal news, law review articles, state and federal case law, and state and federal statutes.Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)
One of the largest of the full-text databases, Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) includes citations, abstracts and some full-text for several thousand English-language general periodicals and scholarly journals dealing with all subject areas including education, psychology, sociology, social work, and family studies. Most materials available in UNCG library.
Coverage from 1980 to date.ProQuest Research Library
Provides indexing and abstracting of approximately 2600 periodicals and national and regional newspapers from 1971 to present including some full text from 1700 periodicals. Covers a wide variety of subjects.
Mental Measurements Yearbook .
Earlier print editions are in ref BF431. M430. (1938 - ) Lists, describes, indexes, and reviews published copyrighted tests.Goldman, Bert A. and others. Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures.
Washington: American Psychological Association, 1974 - .
location: ref BF431 .G625
Lists in 24 subject categories unpublished test instruments as they have been mentioned and used in the research articles of 37 professional psychology and education journals. For each test the following is provided: Test name, purpose, number or items, format, reliability, validity, author, article examined, journal in which the article appeared, and related research; author and cumulative subject indexes.ERIC/AE Test Locator
Contains descriptions of over 10,000 tests and research instruments from the 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.Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests available in compilation volumes
This is a list of some of the tests that can be found quickly in compilation volumes available in many libraries. This site from the University of Texas at Arlington was designed as a service to locate tests, measures, instruments, etc. when there is a known title and a copy of the test is desired. Note the test keyword list for access by subject.ref. BF 431 .T380
Tests in Print.ref. BF 176 .T419
Test Critiques.ref. LB 3051 .E79
Educational Testing Service (ETS) Test Collection Catalog
Certification Guides
ref. LB 1771 .W6
Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools, 2005-2006
ref. LB 1771 .T43
Teacher Certification Requirements in All Fifty States
ref. LB 1771 .N37
The NASDTEC Manual on the Preparation & Certification of Educational Personnel
ref. 1771 .M25
The National Board Certification Workbook: How to Prepare Your Portfolio
ref. 1771 .A480
Alternative Teacher Certification: A State-by-state Analysis
ref L 112 .B377a
Condition of Educationref LA 201 .E38
Education Statistics of the United Statesref L 112 .A35
Digest of Education Statisticsref LA230.5 .S6F29
SREB Fact Book on Higher Education
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