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Contains articles with page images, plus abstracts, and indexing. Comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks includes 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC. View the list of journals covered.
Coverage: Indexing 1983-; full text 1996-
Users: 9
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Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, and books. Includes full-text ERIC digests and links to some full-text articles. ERIC also uses an excellent thesaurus. When a citation lacks full-text and has an ED number, you may request the microfiche by ED number at the 2nd floor help desk.
Coverage: indexing 1966-.
Users: unlimited
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This is the official source of bibliographic information for U.S. Government publications. Users can search the entire catalog or specific subsets, choosing either a basic, advanced, or expert search option. Recent material may also have links to full text.
Coverage: 1976-
Access: unlimited
Free resource


A free database of more than 8,000 resources from disciplines related to child care and early education. Resources in the collection include research reports, fact sheets and briefs, datasets, instruments and measures, citations for scholarly journal articles and books, grey literature, government documents, and more.
Coverage: 1995-
Users: unlimited
Free resource


The CLCD is a complete source of information about children's books, audio recordings, and films. It includes reviews of children's books all full-text searchable. In addition you can see what awards books have won and read reviews from major publications like Booklist, Horn Book, and Kirkus.
Coverage: varies by review source
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Provides abstracts, 24-page previews, and the full text of dissertations and selected theses from Kansas State University. Citations are available starting with 1937, with free (for the KSU community) full text as far back as 1945. For full-text dissertations from other universities, use Dissertations and Theses - Full Text, where dissertations from virtually all doctoral institutions in North America are available from 1996 onward, and in many cases, from earlier years as well.
Coverage: 1937-
Users: unlimited
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An online resource for funding research, the Foundation Directory Online provides information over than 98,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors, 1.7 million recent grants, and more than 400,000 key decision makers.
Coverage: n/a
Access: unlimited
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For the full description, see Dissertations and Theses - Full Text.
Coverage: indexing 1861-; full text varies by school
Users: unlimited
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Evaluate and compare journals in the sciences and social sciences using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. JCR is related to Web of Science and is based on similar data. Use JCR to find the most frequently cited journals in a field and/or a journal's impact factor, among other information.
Coverage: 2002-
Users: 8
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Database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. Many of the materials are available online in .pdf format, or contain a link to the web page of the issuing agency.
Coverage: indexing 1966-; full text 2000-
Users: unlimited
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Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's Yearbooks. The database covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor.
Coverage: 1985-
Users: 4
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Produced by the American Psychological Association and contains citations and abstracts of the world's literature in psychology, behavioral sciences, and related subjects. It includes citations to journal articles from more than 1900 journal titles, technical reports, and dissertations of psychological relevance from more than 50 countries. PsycINFO also includes books and book chapters, including those that were formerly part of PsycINFO Chapters and Books, and the information from Historical PsycINFO (1887 to 1966).
Coverage: 1800s-
Users: unlimited
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35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. World Music, Smithsonian Folkways, historical speeches, poets and authors reading their own works, an extensive children's collection (kindergarten through middle school).
Coverage: n/a
Users: unlimited
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Online version of the three Citation Indexes: Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. In addition to searching by keyword, subject, author, etc. for articles in over 8,000 journals, one can do a "cited reference" search to see how frequently and where an article has been cited. Web of Science is one of our best databases. Also an excellent source for finding book reviews.
Coverage: Science 1945-; Social Sciences 1956-; Arts & Humanities 1975-
Users: unlimited
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