Blackwell Library is ready to help
students with their
information needs in Education.
This guide will direct you to the physical resources
Blackwell Library owns (Books and Journal subscriptions) and the
electronic resources (Article Databases & Selected Web
Sites) available through a computer.
If you don't
find what you need, or if you would like some
assistance in using any of theseresources, stop by the
Research Help Desk during our
service hours, call 410-548-5988, e-mail
reflib@salisbury.eduor contact the
library liaison listed below.
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Books
CIRCULATING BOOKS
SU
Blackwell Library
Search our
Library
Catalog for books, on all Education topics, that you may check out
of the library. These (Stacks) books are located on the
second floor of the library.
USMAI Combined Libraries (16 University System of
Maryland campuses) Search the
USMAI Combined Library
Catalog for books, on all Education topics, that you may electronically request be sent to Blackwell Library for you
(3 to 5 business days).
Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) (Libraries
throughout the United States) If the book you want is not
available at SU or other USMAI libraries, then you may request that we locate and request it through Interlibrary Loan.
ELECTRONIC BOOKS
SU
Blackwell Library Search our
Library
Catalog or
Ebsco eBooks database for e-books on Education topics that you may view, in full, on your computer monitor. Gull Card
required for off-campus access.
Google Book Search Browse full-text Education books available online
from
Google's Book Search.
REFERENCE BOOKS
The following selection of books can be found in
the library's first floor Reference Collection. They contain discipline-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias and other material useful for
conducting research in Education and may used only in the
library buidling.
International Dictionary of University
Histories Ref. L900 .I57331998
International Handbook of Universities Ref. L900 .I58 2005 Patterson's
American Education Ref. L901 .P32007 Ultimate
College Directory Ref. LB 2331.63 .U482004 World List of Universities
and Other Institutions of Higher Education Ref. L900 .W672006
Statistics
Digest of Educational Statistics (Ready Reference
Shelf) Ref. LB 2846 .D5632005 Education Indicators: An Internal Perspective Ref. L112 .E34 1996
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of American
Education (3 vols.) Ref. LB17 .U54 1996 Encyclopedia of Education(8 vols.)
Ref. LB15 .E472003
Encyclopedia of Educational Research (4
vols.) Ref. LB15 .E48 1992 Encyclopedia of Higher Education (4 vols.) Ref. LB15 .E49 1992 World Education
Encyclopedia(3 vols.)
Ref. LB15 .W872002
Guides
Peterson's Graduate and Professional Programs (6 vols.) (Ready Reference
Shelf) Ref. L901 .P46 2007
Peterson's Guide to Distance Learning
Programs
Ref. LC 5805 .P481997
African-American Education: a
Reference Handbook
Ref. LC2741 .J33 2001 Bilingual Education: a Reference Handbook
Ref. LC3731 .F45 2002 Handbook of Educational Terms & Applications
Ref. LB 15 .E4191996
Handbook of Research for Educational Communications
and Technology
Ref. LB
1028.3 .H355 2001 Handbook of Research on Teaching
Ref. LB1028 .H315 2001
Certification
Alternative
Teacher Certification: A State-by-State Analysis 2001 Ref. LB 1771 .A472001
Requirements
for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators Ref. LB 1771 .W61999-00
Teacher
Certification Requirements in All Fifty States Ref. LB 1771 .T432003-04
Tests
Barron's
How to Prepare for the MAT: Miller Anthologies Test (Ready Reference
Shelf)
Ref. LB2367.6 .S741998
Barron's How to Prepare for the CLEP: College Level Exam Program (Ready Reference
Shelf)
Ref. LB2353.68 .B37 2003
Everything You Need to Score High on the GRE
Ref. LB2367.4 .E84 2000
GRE Exam
(Ready Reference
Shelf)
Ref. LB 2367.4 .G725 2004
McGraw-Hill's PRAXIS I &
II Exam.
(Ready Reference
Shelf)
Ref. LB 2367.75 .R69 2005
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Ref. Z5814 .P8 B932
Preparation for the Praxis I / PPST Exam (Ready Reference
Shelf) Ref. LB 2367.75 .P7368 2004 REA's Testbuster for the
GRE: General Test with Software
(Ready Reference
Shelf)
Ref. LB
2367.4 .R42 2004
Test Critiques (10 vols.)
Ref. BF176 .T419
Tests in Print (2 vols.)
Ref. Z5814 .E9 T47 1999
The Best Test
Preparation for the CLEP General Exams
Ref. LB
2353.68 .B46 2004
The following selection of databases
are accessible through Blackwell Library. =
contains full-text= contains full-text
or publisher pay sites
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 biweeklycorresponding
with the effective dates in the most current Maryland Register
issue. ERIC:Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides access to
information fromjournals included in
the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in EducationIndex.
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:JSTOR
is a
not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and
maintain atrusted archive of
important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these
journals as widely aspossible.
Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the
humanities and social sciences.Historical
in scope (pre-1980’s).
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY):
MMY provides a comprehensive guide to over 2700
contemporary testing instruments and information needed for an
evaluation of test products for psychology, education, and
business. Entries contain descriptive information (purpose,
publisher, pricing) and edited reviews written by content area
experts.
This electronic version of Mental Measurements
Yearbook provides information on tests that are described in
volumes 9 - 15 (1985-current).
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
schoolmagazines. All full
text articles areassigned a reading
level indicator (Lexiles). This
database also offers indexing and abstracts for nearly100 magazines. Full text is
also available for over 100 student pamphlets.
This database also providesthe American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition
from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collectionof 107,135 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles
are available in native (searchable) PDF, orscanned-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 specializedcollection of more than 550 high quality education
journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewedtitles and contains more than 200 educational reports.
The most comprehensive/valuable collection offull text education journals in the world.
Indexing/abstracts provided for more than 700 journals. Themajority 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.
Tests in Print (TIP):
Tests in Print (TIP) provides vital information to users
including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price,
test acronym, intended test population, administration times,
publication date(s), and test author(s). TIP serves as a
comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available
tests that are currently in print in the English language.
Teacher Reference Center:
Provides indexing and
abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and
administrator tradejournals to assist
professional educators.
Physical Education Index:Over 300 sources are
currently indexed, though not all are comprehensive. Over
250,000 records canbe 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 Complete:
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. Over35,000
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. eBook
Collection
(formerly 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).
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.
PsycArticles:
A source of
searchable full text articles in psychology,
covers general psychology and specialized, basic,
applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.
Search Education as it relates to psychology.
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences:
A
source of
searchable full text articles in
such topics as
emotional and
behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental
processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental
methods. Time span: 1930 to present.
Search Education as it relates to psychology.
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.
Web of Science:
Provides multidisciplinary literature coveragefrom 9,300 journals – including
cited references - in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and
humanities. Search backward and forward in time with cited
reference searching, analyze results, search over 100 years of
back files, and link to the full text.
Family
Involvement Bibliographies - A series of bibliographies of family
involvement research by year (1999-2006) and by subject (Adolescence, Cultural Diversity, Early
Childhood Education, Student Achievement, Teacher Preparation and Working Families) -
compiled from education databases (ERIC, Education Abstracts, PsychINFO,
SocioFILE, Current Contents, Dissertation Abstracts)
by the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP).
Children's Sites
Crayola Creativity Central
- An excellent site with a remarkable set of
resources for teachers, parents and students. For
K-12 children, the site offers many creative coloring pages, craft ideas and games.
International
Children's Digital Library - This site makes the best in children's
literature available online. The mission is to encourage
children to become part of the global community through tolerance and respect for diverse cultures,languages and ideas.
The Space Place
- A site dedicated to educating children about space, with numerous activities. Yahoo! Kids
- An interesting and
informative site containing a helpful reference section as well as fun
activities for younger audiences. One may also submit questions to "Ask
Earl".
College and University Information
American
Universities - This site attempts to create links to each American
University's homepage. BRAINTRACK: University Index
- Over
5,500 links are provided for Higher Education institutions in 161 countries. College and University
Rankings - Allows the user to rank institutions based on a variety of criteria
in different subject areas. College
Navigator - The U.S. Department of Education provides consumers information
on nearly 7,000 postsecondary institutions in the United States in an easy-to-use
format. Online Education Directory -
A guide to degree
granting online institutions.
Comprehensive Education Sites
Education Index - Comprehensive listings for various subjects, resources
for teaching at each educational level, educational games, and
discussion groups. Education World: The Educator's Best
Friend - A
home for educators on the Internet, a place where teachers can
gather and share ideas and a complete online
resource where educators can start each day
to find the lesson plans and research materials they
are looking for.Many fascinating sites can be found using this
resource, including an excellent reference section. Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
(Now a subscription service)
- Provides access to
K-12 math and science teacher resources for
teaching and professional development. Library in the Sky - Over 1,500 educational websites
are conveniently arranged according to topic.
Education News
Education Week
- Covers important
educational issues and includes a searchable archive.
Education Organizations
The
American Educational Research Association (AERA) - Concerned
with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly
inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and
practical application of research results.
US Department of Education
- Information
on statistics, education resources, grants, financial aid, and more is contained
here.
Teacher
Preparation
Association for
Middle Level Education (AMLE) - (Formerly National
Middle School Association) A voice for those committed to the educational and
developmental needs of young adolescents.
Teachers' Resources
Busy Teachers' Website - Each subject area has
its own pages which discusses lesson plans, activities, references,
and more Discovery
Education School Resources - This resource provides useful sites for
enhancing curriculum and professional growth and provides lesson plans, teaching tools,
a clip art gallery and a puzzle maker.
Lesson Tutor
- This
resource includes hundreds of free, original K-12 lesson plans and print- ableworksheets. The Lesson Plans Page
- This
site boasts access to over 1,500 free lesson plans for a wide array of subject areas. Sites for Teachers
- Many pages
of links to education websites are listed, though the quality of the sites
varies quite a bit. Teachers Helping Teachers -
In addition to many
carefully selected education links, there are a number of lesson
plans for all subject areas. Teacher-2-Teacher - Tips for teaching, subscription
lists, and lesson plans are all available to users.
MDK12.org - Created
to help Maryland schools analyze their state
assessment data and guide themin making
data-based instructional decisions that would support improved performance forall
students (contains
Maryland
Voluntary School Curriculum,
Assessments, Data Analysis
and
Instruction).
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The
College Board - Education tests and resources for CLEP, SAT,
PSAT/NMSQT (Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test) and AP (Advanced
Placement Program).
CLEP:
The College-Level Examination Program- "provides students of
any age with the opportunity to demonstrate
college-level achievement through a program of exams in undergraduate college courses.
There are 2,900 colleges that grant credit and/or advanced standing for CLEP
exams."
Educational
Testing Service (ETS)
- Education tests and resources for AP, GRE, ICT Literacy Assessment, Major Field Tests, MAPP, Praxis, SAT, TOEFL, TOEIC
and TSE.
GRE:
Graduate Record Examinations - "The
Graduate Record Examinations
General Test measures verbal
reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and critical thinking and
analytical writing skills that have been
acquired over a long period of time and that are not related to any specific field of study. The
GRE Subject Tests
gauge undergraduate achievement in 8 specific fields of study and is
often required for admission into a master's degree program."
The
Praxis Series: Teacher Licensure and Certification - "The Praxis Series
assessments provide educational tests and
other services that states use as part of their teaching licensingcertification
process. The Praxis I tests
measure basic academic skills, and the Praxis
IItests measure general and
subject-specific knowledge and teaching skills."
