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Subject Guide: Education Databases
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The following selection of databases
are accessible through Blackwell Library.
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DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC EDUCATION DATABASES:
COMAR
Online:
Code of Maryland
Regulation (COMAR) provides access to
the full text of Maryland State agency regulations. COMAR
contains 33 Titles, with each Title corresponding to a
department/agency. Searchable by
word, phrase, codification # or title,
and browsable by table of contents.
Search: Regulations about Education. Time
span: Updated biweekly corresponding
with the effective dates in the most current Maryland Register
issue.
ERIC:
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides access to
information from journals included in
the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education
Index.
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. Coverage: Early
childhood through graduate level - 1966
to present.
Also available via the web at
http://www.eric.ed.gov/.
JSTOR
Education:
JSTOR
is a
not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and
maintain a trusted archive of
important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these
journals as widely as possible.
Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the
humanities and social sciences. Historical
in scope (pre-1980’s).
Primary
Search:
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary
school libraries and public library children's rooms,
contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary
school magazines. All full
text articles are assigned a reading
level indicator (Lexiles). This
database also offers indexing and abstracts for nearly
100 magazines. Full text is
also available for over 100 student pamphlets.
This database also provides
the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition
from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection
of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles
are available in native (searchable) PDF, or
scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles to 1989,
indexing/abstract backfiles to 1984.
Professional
Development Collection:
Professional Development Collection, designed for
professional educators, provides a highly specialized
collection of more than 550 high quality education
journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed
titles and contains more than 200 educational reports.
The most comprehensive/valuable collection of
full text education journals in the world.
Indexing/abstracts provided for more than 700 journals. The
majority of full text titles included in the database are
available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
Full text information in the Professional Development
Collection dates as far back as 1965.
Teacher Reference Center:
Provides indexing and
abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and
administrator trade journals to assist
professional educators.
Physical Education Index:
Over 300 sources are
currently indexed, though not all are comprehensive. Over
250,000 records can be searched, with
approximately 1,000 added every month. An online thesaurus is
available. Coverage: Covers academic
and recreational information concerning physical education,
physical therapy, sports, medicine,
coaching, legal issues and related topics. Time span: 1970 to
present.
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DATABASES
(Education-related):
Academic Search Premier:
Provides full-text articles from
approximately 1,560 journals, with indexing and abstracting from about
2,730 journals. The full-text dates back to 1990 whereas the
abstracts date back as far as 1984.
ArticleFirst: Indexes 16,000 sources with over 19,600,000
records in business, humanities, medicine, science, social
sciences, technology and popular culture from 1990 to the
present.
Contemporary
Women's Issues: Indexes 1,500
sources including books and journals and provides links to
full-text when available. Over 35,000
records are available and are updated on a weekly basis.
CWI covers numerous subject
areas pertaining to women's issues, such as lesbian concerns,
family life, human rights, violence
and exploitation and other related topics. Time span: 1992 to
present.
Humanities
International Complete:
Provides
full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published
sources from around the world. This
database includes all data from Humanities International
Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique
full text content, much of which is not found in other
databases.
MAS
Fulltext Ultra:
Full-text for
over 500 popular general interest and current events
publications, as well as 253 full text
reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary
source documents, and an image
collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.
Coverage: Includes current
events, popular culture, and biographical information. Time
span: 1975 to present.
MasterFILE
Premier:
Provides abstracts and indexing for 2,650 general periodicals.
Full text of articles for nearly 2,000
periodicals, and 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews.
Coverage: Multidisciplinary subjects including general
reference, business, education, health, general science,
multi-cultural issues, biography, and travel. Time span:
1975-present.
NetLibrary:
A collection of E-texts covering topics specifically
chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. Coverage:
Collection strengths include computer science, business,
international relations, education,
environmental science, psychology, and civil rights law and
history. Search: Education (176 titles).
PsycINFO: Journal article coverage spans the years 1887 to present.
Material from nearly 2,000 periodicals is included.
SU
Dissertations & Theses:
Provides access to
citations and abstracts of all SU
student's dissertations and theses published with UMI®
Dissertation Publishing, as well as the full text in PDF format,
when available. Coverage varies.
The librarian liaison
to Education is Stephen Ford,
saford@salisbury.edu
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