Indexes and Databases for Education

ERIC
Covering education literature from preschool to higher and adult education.

ISI Web of Knowledge [Off-campus Access] NEW
13,000 journals,23 million patents, 192,000 conference proceedings, 9,100 Web sites, 5,000 books, 2 million chemical structures, Over 100 years of backfiles, 40 million cited references added annually, 256 subject categoriesin Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.

Wilson Web
Full text begins in 1994. OmniFile Full Text Mega 1982-present. Comprehensive database covering Business, Education, Science, Humanities, Social Sciences etc. Full text begins in 1994.

PSYCHINFO
PsycInfo contains summaries of articles from journals and chapters of books in social work, psychology, psychiatry and related subjects. Because of its research orientation and the large number of citations it contains, this database is a very important source for social work research.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite
A multi-disciplinary database that offers full text for more than 1,850 scholarly journals including 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. Also contains Business Source Plus, ERIC, MLA, CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition, and Clinical Pharmacology.. 

GALE(InforTrac) Expanded ASAP
(1980 to present) From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!

JSTOR
Full-text articles and images from more than 120 scholarly journas. Subjects covered include African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology,Economics, Political Science, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Population Studies, Sociology, Statistics, and General Science Collection.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Search
iA broad-based database and full text online search service that provides indexing and full text access to sources in such categories as General Medical and Health Topics, Medical Abstracts, General News Topics, and many more.A title list is available for viewing.

Wiley InerSciences
A partially full text database featuring over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases as well as a suite of professional and management resources. Subject coverage includes business, finance and management, chemistry, computer science, earth science, education, engineering, law, life science, mathematics and statistics, psychology and physics.

ERIC Clearinghouses from the Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch)
This database is primarily for doctoral students. It covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

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