Suggested Resources for Education

Indexes & Databases to Articles
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Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles
	Curriculum Resource Center		Provides printable teacher-handout material for middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.
	Curriculum Resource Center (Junior Edition)		Provides printable teacher-handout material for elementary school curriculum.
	Education Full Text		Index to articles on alll aspects of education
	Educator's Reference Complete		A selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	ERIC (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)		Index to educational materials
	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)		Full-text for many ERIC (ED) documents, 1996 - present
	Kraus Curriculum Development Library		The Kraus Curriculum Development Library (kcdlonline) is a searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards covering educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
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Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Chronicle of Higher Education (Online)		The most-read source of news, information, and job listings for college and university faculty members and administrators.
	Dissertations & Theses		Doctoral dissertations, including limited full-text of University of Minnesota dissertations from 1997 to present
	Ethnic News Watch		Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses.
	Family and Society Studies Worldwide		This database covers research in the fields of family science, human ecology, human development and social welfare. This databases includes journal articles, conference papers, books, government reports, dissertations, statistical sources.
	LexisNexis Academic		Business, law, medical, news
	netLibrary		Over 4,400 copyrighted and public domain electronic books in many subject areas
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs
	Physical Education Index		Online available from 1970 - . Paper index GV 201 .P535 covers vol. 1, 1978 - v.23, 2000.
	PsycINFO		Indexes more than 1,400 journals on psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education, linguistics and physiology
	PubMed -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		Index to articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. This campus version provides full text access to e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Duluth Library.
	Social Services Abstracts		Index to current research articles focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development
	Sociological Abstracts		Indexes articles in sociology and social policy
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		U.S. and International library holdings

 

 

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