Selected Resources for: Education

Full text of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication. Note: It does NOT include the most recent 2 to 5 years.
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Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities.
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This version of the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education, and provides access to education-related journal and non-journal literature.
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Covers the social sciences, including anthropology, history, industrial relations, information science and library science, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, political science, public health, social issues, social work, sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women's studies.
Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 60% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work.
Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals."
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A collection of the Correspondence of John Dewey is available via the Past Masters database.
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Based on the extensive holdings of the Milbank Memorial Library, Teachers College at Columbia University and the comprehensive collection of Harvard University Library. This microfiche collection of about 12,500 titles consists of letters, pamphlets, educational treatises and general works on the history of education published from the fifteenth century to World War I. Topics include: philosophy; legislation; works on Sloyd and vocational education; therapeutic gymnastics; American, Jewish, Chinese, Greek and English education; early childhood education and adult education; teacher training; graduation addresses; and biographies of educators. Contributors include: Erasmus, Mme. Necker de Saussure, Alexander Graham Bell, Juren Bona Meyer, Susanna Phelps Gage, Horace Mann, and Mary Tyler Peabody Mann. Note: use the History of Education paper indexes located on top of the microfiche cabinet. These indexes have not been cumulated and are subject specific so you have to look in the index that covers your topic.

You can also view, download, or search the guide to the collection at http://microformguides.gale.com/BrowseGuide.asp?colldocid=1006000&Page=1

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From the NCES: The Condition of Education; The Digest of Education Statistics; Indicators of School Crime and Safety; Projections of Education Statistics; Education Statistics Quarterly.
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