Database by Subject: Education
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1990 - present |
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Updated monthly. Provides full text for 5,256 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. | |
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1998 - present |
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Collection of science reference materials. Includes access to articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. Tailored to researchers and students. | |
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1996 -present. |
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Updated monthly. The ACS Publications Division provides its members and the worldwide scientific community a comprehensive collection of high quality information products and services for the practice and advancement of the chemical sciences. | |
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1970 - present |
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Updated daily. Contains bibliographic citations with some abstracts covering agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics and rural sociology. Includes journal articles, books, state extension and experiment station publications and USDA documents. National Agriculture Library | |
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American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library |
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American Memory is an ongoing resource of digital images, audio and media clips embracing all aspects of American history and culture. This extensive collection provides access to over 7 million digital reproductions of primary sources from over 100 important historical collections from the Library of Congress and other participating museums and institutions. In addition to the digital resources, the site includes The Learning Page, a teacher's guide to assist in instructional support and learning, and Today in History which gives a brief historical account of an important event in American history occurring on that day. |
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Constructed as a companion to C-SPAN's 1999 series, American Presidents: Life Portraits, the site features basic biographical information and interesting facts about our nation's presidents along with a wide variety of video and sound clips and links to other sites of interest on the Web. Texts of speeches and addresses are included, as well as extensive bibliographies. | |
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This site's mission is to be a "portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts" and consists of annotated lists of recommended history sites that are divided by topic and rated by the site's creators for "usefulness and accuracy." Broad periods such as Prehistory, Medieval, and 20th Century history are listed and further subdivided into manageable topics and periods. Best of History Websites also identifies sites that are particularly useful for lesson plans, research and multimedia. Although coverage of the period between the Middle Ages and the modern/20th century is not particularly strong, overall this frequently updated site lives up to its name and its mission. | |
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1771 to present |
Some full text available |
This searchable directory provides biographical information on the more than 13,000 persons who have served in the U.S. Congress, including those who served in the Continental Congress. Also included are territorial delegates, resident commissioners, and U.S. Vice presidents. Based on the print publication Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, the online version has been augmented with images from Congressional photo collections, information on related research collections including personal and business papers and oral histories, as well as bibliographies from related publications | |
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Updated regularly. Covers more than 100,000 modern authors from a wide range of media who were active prior to 1960 and whose works continue to influence contemporary literature. Information is drawn from the entire Contemporary Authors print series. | |
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Updated regularly. Presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959. A strong emphasis is placed on including criticism of works by established authors who frequently appear on syllabuses of high school and college literature courses. | |
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Updated regularly. Outlines the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarizes the critical response to their work. Each entry contains personal information, a list of principal works and further readings about the author. | |
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The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. DOAJ aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are over 2796 journals in the directory. Over 800 journals are searchable at article level. | |
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Limited full text |
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. DAS includes 1,264 books and manuscripts. Most are accompanied by a full bibliographic record. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
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Updated regularly. Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. Consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic. | |
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K-12 Education Reference Directory of Resources and Schools, Content for Music, Teachers, Internet, Technology, Literacy, Arts and Linguistics | |
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Published three times per year, Educators' Spotlight Digest is a free, online publication of S.O.S. for Information Literacy, a project of Syracuse University's Center for Digital Literacy, in collaboration with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators, currently in development, that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to children. At no time in history has the ability to locate, organize, evaluate, manage and use information been more critical for today's learners. These skills, collectively referred to as information literacy, lay the groundwork for success in every phase of a student's life both in and out of school. | |
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Updated regularly. Designed for K-12 educators and students. Connects educators and students to online resources to supplement instruction and research. Content includes curriculum support, full text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts. Also includes pictures, maps, educator-approved websites, and audio/video content | |
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1966 - present |
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Updated monthly. Contains over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. | |
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Some full text available |
Launched in 2000 by the Learning Network, Fact Monster.com (formerly Infopleasekids.com ) describes its site as combining "essential reference materials, fun facts, features and individualized homework help." Intended for children aged 9 to 14, the well designed and easily navigable resource presents the following 10 subject categories in both text and graphic formats: World & News, U.S., People, Word Wise, Science, Math, Sports, Cool Stuff, Games and Quizzes and Homework Center. Each category has an Almanac, Special Features and a Games and Quizzes section which offer appropriate links. An atlas, almanac, dictionary and an encyclopedia can also be accessed directly from the home page | |
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Updated regularly. Fuente Academica is a collection of scholarly journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers. Offers full text (including PDF) for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals. Titles include Revista de Arquitectura, Estudios Sobre Educacion, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Comunicacion y Sociedad, Revista de Ciencia Politica, Revista Historia, and more. | |
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Dozens of reference sources in many subjects. | |
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"HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic [simultaneously presented and viewable] lifelines, timelines, and maps." The unique construction of the site allows history to be "viewed" rather than read, although the option of browsing and searching brief text biographies (1010 total) is available. The collection of timelines can be viewed by time period, event (including a new chronology of the 2001-02 terrorist attacks), and person; names on the timeline are color-coded to indicate area of primary influence (science, arts, religion, politics). There is also an extensive collection of event and time period-related maps. The site is complemented by linked text of a "comprehensive world history" that features bibliographies and web links for further research. A valuable site, especially for K-12 and undergraduate use. | |
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Updated daily. Provides full-text access to over 100 newspapers, including titles of local interest like the Austin-American Statesman and the Houston Chronicle. Search articles by title, headline, date, author or section. | |
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Explore a world of children's books at the ICDL, a public library for the world's children. Read 871 free children's books written in 33 different languages. The International Children's Digital Library is a project of the University of Maryland. | |
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Updated periodically. Includes the complete backfiles for over 200 scholarly journals, including major titles from all subject disciplines. | |
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Kidspace is a service of the Internet Public Library (IPL). The IPL is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. | |
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Kolabora is an independent forum about online collaboration, Web conferencing and real-time live presentation technologies, and the issues, problems and solutions relating to them. Kolabora is an online set of shared public spaces where anyone can find detailed information about the world of online work and collaboration. | |
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Updated continually. Provides both full-text and abstracts for a wide range of general-interest wire services, newspapers and magazines from around the world, including full text of the New York Times. Also provides access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. | |
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1975 - present |
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Updated daily. This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 84,074 biographies and 86,135 primary source documents, an Image collection of 188,323 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. | |
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1990 - present |
Some full text available |
Updated daily. Contains full text for nearly 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Also contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History and an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps and flags. | |
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NASA.gov, the official web site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, features an extensive collection of information related to our nation's space program and the cosmos. Redesigned in 2003, the site is well-organized and can be accessed by audience (educators, children, students, or the media) by resource category (about NASA, News and Events, Multimedia, Missions, Popular Topics), or by a handy search engine on each page that facilitates "Finding it @ NASA." | |
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Aimed at educators, students, and the general public, this site "is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the U.S. and other nations." The site provides page-image or other full-text access to its major statistical reference publications, including The Digest of Education Statistics , the Projection of Education Data, and The Condition of Education. Other resources include Postsecondary Education Data (IPEDS), Information on Public Schools and School Districts in the United States; College Opportunities On-Line (COOL,) which can be used for searching and comparing colleges that match user selected criteria; and The Nation's Report Card, a national assessment of educational progress | |
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More than 40,000 e-Books are available for browsing, searching, and virtual check-out. The e-Book collection includes titles from the world's leading business, technology, trade, reference, academic, and scholarly publishers. Search by title, author, keyword, publisher, publication date, or ISBN number. | |
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OAIster serves as a search portal for digital collections of electronic books, online journals, audio and image files, and movies provided by the research library community. Users can search by keyword, title, creator, subject or resource type, and searches yield a detailed and well-organized description of the resource and a link to the resource itself. Indexed content includes the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, various pre-print and e-print servers, and digital thesis and dissertation collections. Currently OAIster contains over a 1.26 million records harvested from over 185 institutions. OAIster increases the visibility and accessibility of these unique resources by providing a "broad, generic, information retrieval resource for information about publicly available digital library resources" via a single point of entry. | |
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The goal of the Online Books Page is to facilitate "access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Now in its tenth year, this site includes a searchable database of over 20,000 book titles available from many different sources, including such well known sites as the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center and Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/), also a Mars Best 2003 winner. In addition to keyword searching, there are options to browse by author, title or subject, this latter category arranged by Library of Congress call number. New to the site are links to several runs of serial archives. Primarily an index to English language materials, there is a page of links provided to several foreign language sites. | |
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1874 - present |
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The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. The goal of the project is to make these resources readily and freely available to students, educators, and adult learners throughout the world. | |
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Mid-1980's - present |
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Updated daily. Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984. | |
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1965 - present |
Some full text available |
Updated regularly. Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. | |
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1986 - present |
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Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database covers almost 400 leading journals in the field. Nearly all of them offer articles in the three most popular formats. | |
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1971 - present |
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Coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. | |
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Updated regularly. Contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications. | |
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Updated regularly. This current events database allows users to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Students can use either the dropdown menus for Current Events or Topics to easily locate relevant articles. Contains full text for over 102,800 articles from 2,500 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's periodicals collection, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information and EBSCO's Current Issues database. This database provides full text for more than 1,550 publications. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 1,650 journals. | |
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The VCDH at the University of Virginia promotes the teaching and learning of history using digital technologies. Our research projects and outreach programs use the web to serve scholars and educators in universities, colleges, schools, and libraries around the world. |