Research Guide: Elementary and Secondary Education Databases

Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with summaries of the issues. Full text. Five simultaneous users.

Large database that provides coverage of all aspects of education, including curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Offers some full text.

Available through EBSCO. Links to full text in other databases.

Free version of ERIC from the National Library of Education.

Provides access to Encyclopedia America,Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, and several specialized encyclopedias as well as current news, dictionaries, and an atlas.

Provides access to the full text of over 300 scholarly journals across many subject areas. The objective of JSTOR is to provide all issues back to Volume 1, Issue 1 for all journals. (Due to copyright restrictions, the most recent 3-5 years are unavailable.)

Provides full text information on standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, and psychology. The print version is located in Milne Library Reference REF LB1131 .B93. Another, simpler index to the series, volumes 9-17 (1985 to the Present), is located on the website of the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

Contains about 2000 viewpoint articles, 1000 topic overviews, 700 court case overviews, and 30 full text periodicals and newspapers. The Research Guide provides tips on analyzing issues with opposing viewpoints, distinguishing fact from opinion, evaluating information sources, and recognizing deceptive arguments.

Provides access to back files of over 550 complete full-image journals spanning 200 years in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Full text of about 500 education journals (about 350 are peer-reviewed). Includes full text of the Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to the present (with a one month delay).

Provides full text for nearly 70 popular magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Full text of over 100 scholarly journals in fields including literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, gender studies, and economics.

Covers 1887 to the present. Provides worldwide coverage to literature in psychology and related disciplines. Links to full text articles in other databases. PsycARTICLES provides access to over 100,000 searchable full text articles from 48 journals published by the American Psychological Association from 1894 to the present.

Hundreds of primary source materials such as letters, diaries, and newspaper excerpts dating from about 1810 - 1860 that can be used in teaching local New York State history.