Selected Education Online Resources

Databases
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

*360Search
Click on "Education". 360Search will then simultaneously search a number of databases that contain education related sources.

• *America: History and Life
  Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals.
• CollegeSource Online
  A virtual library representing over 29,036 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. Access to the college catalogs is available to anyone in the world with access to the internet.
• *ERIC
  Educational Resources Information Center has represented the most complete bibliography of educational materials available since 1966. The ERIC database is a guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). CIJE covers over 980 journals. ERIC records now include approximately 1,200 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.
• Federal, State, and Local Governments Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data (US Census)
• Measuring Up: the National Report Card on Higher Education
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Publications and Products
  Searchable database of NCES publications and products. Connects to many full-text NCES publications.
  Use Subjects A to Z to locate publications on specific topics.
• *Professional Collection   
  Articles from more than 300 full-text periodicals covering a variety of topics for teachers/educators, including: health and fitness, school law, drug and alcohol abuse, learning disabilities, sports, arts and humanities, social sciences, and psychology.
• *Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
• *PsycINFO (1887 -)
  PsycINFO, 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 approximately 2,050 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
• SchoolDataDirect
  A place for educators, researchers, and policymakers to access information about public schools.
• *Sociological Abstracts (1952-)
  Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
• Statistical Abstract - Education Data
• *Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition (1982 -)
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text , Humanities Full Text , Readers′ Guide Full Text,  Social Sciences Full Text , Wilson Business Full Text.

Online Journals
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Social Science Journals (SerialsSolutions List)
• *JSTOR Education Journals
• *Blackwell-Synergy
  A collection of over 800 online journals from Blackwell Publishers.
• Education Policy Analysis Archives
  Education Policy Analysis Archives is a peer-reviewed electronic journal that publishes research, reviews, and scholarly writings on all aspects of education policy including educational practice in the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.
  Coverage: 1993 (volume 1) to present
• Education Week
• KAIROS
  Kairos is a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
• *Nation Archive
  Established in 1865, the Nation offers an online 135-year archive of reporting opinion and criticism. It is an important collection of primary source material for history, politics, culture and the arts.
• *Oxford Journals Online
  A large collection of online full text journals from Oxford University Press.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.

Online Reference Sources
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology
• *Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
• *Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development
• *Collins Dictionary of Sociology
• *Cyclopedia Education Dictionary
• *Dictionary of Psychology
• *Dictionary of the Social Sciences
• *Dictionary of Sociology
• *Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education
• *Encyclopedia of African-American Education
• *Greenwood Dictionary of Education
• *Historical Dictionary of American Education
• *Historical Dictionary of Women′s Education in the United States
• *Learning Theories, A to Z
• *Oxford Dictionary of Law
• *World of Sociology

Websites

• Adult and Literacy, U.S. Office of Vocational and Adult Education
  Reports, statistics, legislation and resources on adult English literacy, professional development, and job training. From the U.S. Department of Education′s Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
• Brown v. Board of Education Resources
  Offers links to sites about the Brown decision and the struggle for educational equality. From the U.S. Department of Education.
• Certification Requiremnts for all 50 States (UKY)
• Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management
  Formerly the ERIC Clearinghouse, featuring archived publications, trends and issues, and hot topics.
• Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
  Providing educational materials, services, and coursework for reading and writing.
• Discovery Education - Schrock Guide
  Kathy Schrock′s Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
• EDU History
  Covers the history of education across multiple disciplines and types of schools.
• Education - WWW Virtual Library
  Links to education sources.
• Education Links - Google
• Education Links - Yahoo
• Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
  National information system providing users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature.
• Educator′s Reference Desk
  Provides education-related links, lesson plans, news, and information.
• Gateway to Educational Materials: GEM
  The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Project is a comprehensive, searchable database connecting to lesson plans, curriculum units and other resources on the Internet.
• National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
  The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education presents reports and publications on state policies on higher state spending on higher education and surveys of the public′s perceptions of higher education in particular states.
• National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF)
  Information resources for people who plan, design, build, and maintain K-12 school buildings.
• National Education Association
• School Psychology Resources Online
  Research learning disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence, parenting, psychological assessment, special education, mental retardation, mental health, and more.
• Social Psychology Network
  Welcome to Social Psychology Network, one of the largest Internet sites devoted to psychological research and teaching. In these pages, you′ll find more than 15,000 links related to psychology. School: The Story of American Public Education
  Four-part PBS documentary series that chronicles the development of public education from the late 1770s to the 21st century.
• U.S. Department of Education
  ED was created in 1980 by combining offices from several federal agencies. ED′s mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.