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Education Databases

Education in Video - Alexander Street Press
Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection will contain more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available.

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.

Films on Demand - Education
A collection of streaming videos on various educational subjects, including curriculum and instruction, educational psychology, foundations of education and special education.

LearningExpress Searchable E-books
LearningExpress provides study guides and test-preparation books to help people prepare for high-stakes tests—to advance in school, or pass licensing, certification, or competitive entry-level exams.

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.

 

Education E-Books

Encyclopedia of Education - (2003) James W. Guthrie, Ed. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 3,412 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.

World Education Encyclopedia - (2002) 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale -
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.

 

Education Research Guides

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Education Websites

Education

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.

 

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