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ERIC
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The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature.
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Education Full-text
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Education Full Text brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a one-stop source for research. Coverage includes 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC’s CIJE.
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ERIC Digital Documents
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The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, is the source of full text of ERIC documents published after 1993, and also serves as an alternative site to search the database.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
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Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators.
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Education Student Projects Index
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Catalog of projects done by UST school of education students for classes over the last 7-10 years. Includes info on lesson plans for teaching units, final projects in special education, learning technology, etc. Browse subjects, or search for a specific author, title or topic. Items are available in Keffer library.
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Media Review Digest
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An annual index to film, video, audio recording, CD-ROM and other kinds of media reviews, evaluations, and descriptions appearing in periodicals and other reviewing sources. Covering approximately 100,000 mediagraphic items, Media Review Digest provides the most comprehensive review coverage of educational media, along with strong supplemental coverage of entertainment resources. 1989- .
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UMI Current Research
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Full-text access to University of St. Thomas dissertations.
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Academic Search Premier
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The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
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Child Development and Adolescent Studies
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Child Development & Adolescent Studies, produced by NISC, is today’s source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed.
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CQ Researcher
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Original in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each 13,000-word CQ Researcher report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist.
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Dissertations and Theses
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Definitive guide to more than 2 million U.S. doctoral dissertations and master’s theses from 1861 to the present, as well as thousands of international dissertations and theses. For recent publications, the first 24 pages can be viewed freely, and the full text can be purchased online.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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Indexing, abstracts (summaries) or full text for articles from a large selection of scholarly & general interest publications. Strongest in humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences & current events. 1980- .
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Mental Measurements Yearbook
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Descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2000 commercially available standardized English-language tests: personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor. Includes the text of the Ninth through the Sixteenth Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Updated every six months. 1985-
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PsycArticles
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Access nearly 50 top full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more.
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PsycINFO
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Abstracts (summaries) of all aspects of the literature in psychology; includes journal articles, dissertations, book chapters & books. Full-text of ~300 journals.
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Social Sciences Citation Index
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The Social Sciences Citation Index® provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,800 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. 1995- .
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Sociological Abstracts
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Abstracts (summaries) of journal articles in sociology & related disciplines; international scope; includes dissertations. 1963- .
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Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities
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Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Business, Education, and Psychology - This database is a directory of thousands of journals in Business (accounting, economics & finance, management, and marketing), Education (Curriculum & Methods, and Educational Psychology & Administration), and Psychology. Individual journal records (in PDF format) include contact information for each journal; information on the journal’s topical scope, peer review processes, circulation data, and acceptance rate; and manuscript submission guidelines.
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GoENC
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This database includes an extensive collection of resources for math and science teachers. Users will find lesson plans, web guides, and other articles to help them in teaching mathematics, science, interdisciplinary topics, general education, as well as integrating technology into classrooms pre-K through postsecondary levels. Information is also included about No Child Left Behind and state academic standards, and articles to support professional growth and development of teachers.
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JSTOR
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The Arts & Sciences collections represent the building blocks of a single interdisciplinary archive of over 300 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. For most titles, coverage is from the first issue of the journal up to the last three to five years.
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Masterfile Premier
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This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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Professional Collection
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Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24 hour access from school or home.
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Project Muse
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Full-text subscription access to over 150 journals; strongest in the humanities.
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Business Source Premier
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Business Source Premier provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,100 journals.
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Factiva
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Full text of thousands of business, trade, & news publications; includes Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times. Also includes indexing & abstracts (with some full text) for large collection of general & academic journals. Updates/coverage vary.
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SportDiscus
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SPORTDiscus with Full Text offers comprehensive, bibliographic and full text coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines.
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Alternative Press Index
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Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change, mostly alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
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Infotrac Kids InfoBits
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Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Infotrac Student Edition
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Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Junior Edition
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General index for K-12 curricula; includes full text articles. Current & previous 3 years.
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Junior Reference Collection
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A comprehensive, cross-curricular database for schools and libraries featuring current, relevant, organized, and easy-to-read information from the U*X*L product line, covering science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, and people and places.
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Discovering Collection
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Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
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SIRS Researcher
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Social, scientific, historical, economic & political issues indexed from journals & other documents; international scope. 1988- .
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