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Encyclopedia of Education - James W. Guthrie, Ed. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 3412 pp. 8 vols.
Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world. Approximately 900 articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice.

ERIC - EBSCOHOST - Fulltext 1975 to present
ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals. This database also gives citations for education journal articles (EJ), as well as ERIC Documents (ED). ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

ERIC - OCLC - 1966 to present
Journal articles and reports in education. Contains annotated references to nonjournal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Updated monthly.
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Professional Development Collection - 1965 to present
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

World Education Encyclopedia - 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2001
Country-by-country survey of educational systems which provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. Provides up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and technological advances.

   

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ERIC - Education Resources Information Center Database - World’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.

   
ERIC - Educator's Reference Desk
Provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice. You can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
       
       
       

 

 


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