Education Databases
CBCA (Canadian Business & Current Affairs): Fulltext Education
Covers Canadian education monographs and journal articles, many in fulltext. It includes Canadian federal and provincial government research reports, provincial curriculum guides, graduate dissertations and theses in education. It incorporates the ONTERIS database covering research reports and curriculum documents originating from sources in the province of Ontario through May 1997. Also included is the
Canadian Education Directory, providing directory information for educational institutions and organizations in Canada including public and private schools, school boards, educational associations and government departments related to education in Canada."
· Type: citations and some full text
ERIC - U.S. Department of Education
(sponsored internet access) The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles, with information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). ERIC records include full-text documents from the ERIC Digest at no extra charge. The ERIC database
includes the ERIC thesaurus, a complete list of descriptive terms used by ERIC to index and search the database. From ERIC, users can link to EDRS (ERIC Document Reproduction Service) to purchase documents through existing ERIC accounts.
· Coverage and update frequency: 1966-; monthly
· Links to EDRS, Citations with some links to full-text
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains indexing for over 8,000 publications covering virtually every area of academic study. More than 3,600 of these are peer-reviewed, full text journals.
· Coverage: 1975 - (for more than 100 of the journals)
· Type: citations, abstracts and full-text
ArticleFirst - OCLC
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: Jan. 1990-; daily
· Citations
WorldCat Database (the OCLC Union Catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 48 million bibliographic records representing books and other materials (but not journal articles) in 400 languages. Covers information back to 2100 B.C. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world as well as records describing selected internet resources. Includes the
Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily
First Nations Periodical Index
Accesses a listing of journals containing mainly Canadian Native content.
·0000 Coverage: 1992-
·1111 Type: citation index
American Memory
Information regarding the history and culture of the U.S. from over one million source materials. Compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library program; involves the participation of other libraries and archives as well.
·2222 Coverage: 1700-
·3333 Type: full-text
Project Gutenberg
A collection of public domain books in electronic format. Mainly comprised of classic literature.
·4444 Coverage: 1400-
·5555 Type: full-text
PsycArticles- American Psychological Association
The
PsycArticles database includes full text for all journals published by the American Psychological Association.
·6666 Type: full text
PsycInfo- American Psychological Association
The
PsycInfo database from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.