Suggested Resources for Education

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Curriculum Resource Center		Provides printable teacher-handout material for middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.
	Education Research Complete		Education Research Complete covers topics that include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
	Educator's Reference Complete		Focuses on educational principles, child development, psychology, and best practices in education. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	ERIC (EBSCO)		ERIC contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)		Full-text for many ERIC (ED) documents, 1996 - present
	ERIC (Proquest)		Index to educational materials.
	Professional Collection (Education)		Includes more than 300 full text journals for educators.
	Professional Development Collection		Designed for professional educators. Access to nearly 520 high quality education journals. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

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
	eBooks on EBSCO (formerly NetLibrary)		Over 4,400 copyrighted and public domain electronic books in many subject areas
	Ethnic News Watch		Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses.
	LexisNexis Academic		Business, law, medical, news
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs.
	PsycINFO		Indexes more than 1,400 journals on psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education, linguistics and physiology.
	PubMed -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		Indexes articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. Full text access to articles subscribed to by UMD Library.
	Social Services Abstracts		Indexes current research articles focused on social work, human services, 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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For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Martha Eberhart, Reference Librarian

Email:meberhar@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-8733

L264

University of Minnesota Duluth Library

416 Library Drive

Duluth MN 55812-2495