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Electronic Journals
Databases in Education
Databases--Multi-Subject
Local, State, Federal Government Resources
Selected Web Resources
Statistical Sources
Children's Literature Resources

Electronic Journals

Chronicle of Higher Education
         http://chronicle.com
The higher education weekly. Includes news, feature articles, and extensive job listings Ask a Librarian for user ID and password.

E-Journals in Education
         http://aera-cr.ed.asu.edu/links.html
Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journals from American Educational Research Association.

Comparative Education
         http://www-au.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=100374

Contemporary Educational Psychology
         http://www-au.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=103965

Curriculum Inquiry
         http://www-au.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=101075

Education Week on the Web
         http://www.edweek.org
Full text of current issue and searchable archive of back issues.

Harvard Educational Review
          http://www.edreview.org
Opinion and research from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Arcticles archived back to Winter 1993. Ask Librarian for user ID and password.

Learning and Motivation
          http://www-au.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=104069

Harvard Education Letter
          http://www.edletter.org
 Bi-monthly published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education covers preK-12 education.

Review of Higher Education
          http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/rhe/

Teachers College Record
          http://www.tcrecord.org
Journal of research, analysis and commentary from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Urban Education
         http://www-au.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=103779

Databases in Education

ERIC (Educational Research Information Clearinghouse)
World's largest source of education information with more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The Brooklyn College Library owns many of the journals cited and has the complete microfiche collection of the documents cited.

SEARCH ERIC
The ERIC Thesaurus--invaluable tool for searching the ERIC database.

Education Abstracts Full Text
Full-text and citations from education journals from 1983 to the present.

Databases--Multi-Subject

Academic Search Premier
        http://search.epnet.com
Full-text articles from more than 3,000 scholarly journals in education, language and linguistics.

Dialog @ Carl
        http://dialog.carl.org:3005/
Full-text articles from periodicals and newspapers.

Lexis-NexisAcademic Universe
         http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Full-text articles from newspapers and journals.

PsycINFO
         http://webspirs.silverplatter.com:8000/cuny?
Citations and summaries of journal articles, books, reports and dissertations in the field of psychology and education.
 

Local, State, Federal Government Resources

Education Resource Organizations Directory
         http://www.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/
U.S. Dept. of Education compilation of thousands of organizations that offer information on a wide range of education topics on a state, regional or national level.

National Library of Education
         http://www.ed.gov/NLE/
Federal government's main resource center for education

U.S. Department of Education
         http://www.ed.gov/

New York State Education Department
         http://www.nysed.gov/home.html

NYCENET--New York City Educational Network
         http://www.nycenet.edu
School and central office directories, governance, Board of Ed information


Selected Web Resources

Buros Mental Measurements
         http://unl.edu/buros/
Index and location guide for educational and pschological testing.

Education Library
         http://ericae.net/ftlib.htm
Education Library - Links to full-text books, reports, journal articles and statistical analysis. Lists more than 10,000 tests and research instruments.

Electronic Journal Miner
          http://ejournal.coalliance.org
Free, peer-reviewed journals in education.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
          http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html
Educational resources supported by federal agencies, subjects range from arts to science.

GATEWAY to Educational Materials
          http://www.thegateway.org
Hundreds of lesson plans, curriculum units, other resources from U.S. Department of Education.

Education Technology
          http://www.ed.gov/Technology
From Department of Education, the mother-lode of information on education/technology research and initiatives.

National Education Association
       http://www.nea.org
Tour of America's public schools, teaching tips.

Statistics

Encyclopedia of Education Statistics
         http://nces.ed.gov/edstats/

National Center for Education Statistics
          http://nces.ed.gov

US Census Bureau:
          http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education.html
Detailed data on educational attainment, training, school enrollment etc.

Children's Literature Resources

Children's Literature Site
         http://www.carolhurst.com
Children's book reviews and ideas on how to use them in classroom activities for specific subjects, curriculum areas and themes.

Children's Literature WebGuide
         http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
Rich resource for teachers and scholars from Library of Teaching Resources at University of Calgary, Canada.

Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources
         http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm
Focus on children's literature in education; also offers associated language arts resources.

de Grummond Collection
         http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/
Repository and research center for study of children's literature

Wonderful Wizard of Oz
         http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/
History of Oz, lesson ideas for teachers. This is an exhaustive resource on Oziana in print, on stage and screen.


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