Selected Resources in Education
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Education Databases
ERIC
at EBSCOHost 
Index and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education
research and practice. Coverage is from 1966.
ERIC
at FirstSearch
Index and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education
research and practice. Coverage is from 1966.
Professional
Development Collection (education)
Specialized collection of journal articles and pamphlets especially
for professional educators. Includes indexing and abstracts for over
800 titles and full text for over 500 journals covering current topics
in education. Coverage is from 1984; full text from 1990.
Other Social Sciences Databases
Sociological
Collection
Includes citations, abstracts and some full-text from approximately
475 journals in all areas of sociology. Coverage is from 1984.
JSTOR
Full-text of back issues (not current issues) of core journals in the
humanities, social sciences and sciences. Many core educationjournals
are included: Child Development, Educational Researcher,
History Teacher among others. Browse
JSTOR by subject.
Project
Muse
Full-text of more than 200 scholarly journals in the humanities and
social sciences from several university presses. Coverage is of recent
issues only. Search
help for tips on searches.
PsycARTICLES
Full-text database of approximately 50 journals in psychology, most
published by the APA. Coverage is from 1988.
PsycINFO
Includes citations and abstracts from journal articles, books, book
chapters and dissertations, with some links to full-text. More than
1800 journals are indexed. Coverage is from 1887.
Social
Sciences Abstracts
"Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields
covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage
begins with periodicals published in January 1994."
SocINDEX
with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 242 "core"
coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage
journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs,
and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
To get the full text of the article
Many articles in these databases will be available full text online.
If not, there will often be an icon 
or a link to search for full text (different databases set this up in
different ways).
Clicking on the Find It button will help you see if the article is available
full text through another database, and there will be a link into the
online library catalog SOPHIA
so you can see if we have the journal in print. The Journal/Article
Locator link on the library home page is another way to get
to this type of search.
For additional assistance, please contact the McCain Library Reference
Desk in person, by phone (404-471-6096), or by
submitting a question online
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