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Education Databases

Educational Administrative Abstracts (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, management, research and other key areas. The index contains more than 66,000 records.

Education Full Text (WilsonWeb : 1983- )  UWW access only  How to Use WilsonWeb
Covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. Includes abstracts from January 1994 and indexing from June 1983. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.

Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. ERIC is not a full-text database although the EBSCO version allows access to the full text of articles indexed in other EBSCO databases. EBSCO also contains links to EDRS to get full text (starting 1996) of many ERIC Documents (ED).

ERIC
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No ID needed. The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. ERIC is not a full-text database. Andersen Library owns the microfiche set of the ERIC ED documents.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library  UWW access only
A searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  EBSCOhost Guide
Provides test users with descriptive information, references, and critical reviews of tests.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  EBSCOhost Guide
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of over 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 800 journals. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information dates as far back as 1965.

Sage Premier Journals Online  UWW access only
SAGE Premier provides electronic access to 408 peer-reviewed, full-text journals in Business, Education, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. (94,000+ articles).

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Supplemental Education Databases

Book Collection: Nonfiction-Elementary School Edition (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
A cross-curricular database which provides abstracts and searchable text for 1,290 popular nonfiction books. Book Collection: Nonfiction-Elementary School Edition includes high interest titles on animals, weather, holidays, adventure, sports, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, nature, civics and more.

Book Collection: Nonfiction-High School Edition (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
A cross-curricular database which provides abstracts and searchable text for 2.448 popular nonfiction books. Book Collection: Nonfiction-High School Edition includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more.

Book Collection: Nonfiction-Middle School Edition (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
A cross-curricular database which provides abstracts and searchable text for 3,089 popular nonfiction books. Book Collection: Nonfiction-Middle School Edition includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics and more.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)  UWW access only
CLCD is a complete source of information about children's books and a tool for leading you to the best books. There are more than 150,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 27 sources of reviews including  The Cooperative Children's Book Center [CCBC] which originates in Madison.

ComDisDOME (1997- )  UWW access only
ComDisDOME is a continuously updated information service developed by Communication Sciences and Disorders educators and professionals for educators, clinicians, researchers and students in the fields of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. It contains over 130,000 citations from over 125 journals in the field and searches multiple content sources, including books and dissertations.

EBSCO Animals (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]   EBSCOhost Guide
EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, & III Collection  UWW access only  [More JSTOR Info]  How to Use JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic journal archival project which provides full-text access to complete runs of back issues of scholarly journal titles approximately 35 fields, including Education.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

Literary Index
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This literary Index is a master index to the printed editions of the 43 literary series published by Gale. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.

MAS Ultra-School Edition (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only   [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for nearly 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 237 full text reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. It is updated daily.

Middle Search Plus (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
Middle Search Plus provides abstracts and indexing for over 170 magazines, and searchable full text for over 52 of the most frequently used magazines in middle school libraries, including 115 pamphlets, and also offers Essential Documents of American History. This database is specially designed for middle schools, K-8 and large elementary schools, and covers the majority of a middle school library's periodical collection.

NoveList (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
NoveList is a Reader Advisory database of over 155,000 fiction titles for readers of all ages.

NoveList K-8 (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
NoveList K-8 contains enhanced subject access for over 60,000 fiction titles aimed at the K-8 population. Full-text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many titles

Primary Search (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  [More Ebsco Info]  EBSCOhost Guide
Primary Search Plus is designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms. Updated monthly, this database provides the full text of over 40 magazines for young readers and abstracts and indexing for over 120 magazines. With 109 full text pamphlets, this database provides wonderful opportunities for children to research information quickly and easily, and to acquire searching skills at an early age. It also includes three Funk & Wagnalls publications, the New World Encyclopedia, the World Almanac for Kids and the World Almanac of the USA.

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  EBSCOhost Guide
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)  UWW access only  EBSCOhost Guide
Restricted to 4 users at a time
Provides full text for more than 490 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus with coverage back to 1985.

TeachingBooks  UWW access only
TeachingBooks offers original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. From Badgerlink.

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