Education Databases

Full text and bibliographic database that covers English-language journal articles, yearbooks and books about education.
Coverage: Articles indexed and abstacted from January 1994 - current. Full text from January 1996 - current. Books indexed from 1994 - current.

Education Full Text indexes over 600 periodicals as far back as 1983, over 400 of which are peer-reviewed. Full text is provided for over 350 journals. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of individuals, schools, and institutions are included along with over 1,500 names of educational tests. Especially thorough coverage is offered for special education with over 50 journals devoted specifically to this important topic.

Full text from more than 450 academic journals, hundreds of reports, and many premier reference sources focuses on educational principles and best prectices, child development and psychology.
Coverage: 1980 - current

Educator's Reference Complete provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC. With nearly 7 million articles, this database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy.

Full text of 2,200 digests, plus full text, citations and abstracts of 1000+ journals, books, proceedings, reports, and Department of Education publications.
Coverage: 1966 - current

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. It also offers users access to many of the ERIC documents no longer available online in the UML ERIC microfiche from 1972 to 2003.

Articles from over 760 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.
Coverage: 1991 - current

ProQuest Education Journals offers complete text and images from journals covering not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics.

Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI).

Published every weekday, the Chronicle is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. Coverage: September 1989 - current

The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online Curriculum vitæ management, salary databases, and more.
Coverage: September 1989 - current

The CogNet Library is a growing, searchable collection of books, journals, reference works, OpenCourseWare links and conference materials.

The CogNet Library is a growing, searchable collection of books, journals, reference works, OpenCourseWare links and conference materials. Content and resources are provided by The MIT Press and other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals who are willing to share public access to online work:
 * Full-text of 6 MIT Press journals plus searchable abstracts of over 30 journals from other publishers.
 * Full-text of 7 major reference works from the MIT Press.
 * Over 450 full-text books in cognitive science from The MIT Press are included.
 * Links to relevant MIT OpenCourseWare in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
 * On-demand video relevant to the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
In addition, CogNet contains a growing variety of helpful academic information: News, Profiles of Graduate Programs, Graduate Application information and Funding Resources, Conference Schedules, Conference Proceedings, Virtual poster sessions, Calls for Papers, Seminar Series, and Job Listings.

Bibliographic citations and abstracts for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, with over 750,000 available for download.
Coverage: 1861 - current

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 60,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Over 1.9 million dissertations and theses are available from the UMI vaults on microfilm or in hardcopy, and researchers can preview many recent titles electronically. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).

Search over 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, and audio/video files for material mostly selected for K-12 curriculum levels.
Coverage: most material 1994 - current

E-Library is especially useful for its teacher tools that include the Book Cart for reading lists and lesson plans, access to standards-aligned articles and other resources, plus educator-approved websites from Homework Central. BookCart functionality allows librarians and educators to build persistent links to pre-selected content, creating reading lists, subject and topic pages, standards-linked lessons and activities, community interest pages, and even pre- or post-assessments. E-Library Reference offers combined searching of over 30 encyclopdias, almanacs and atlases plus multiple other resources many of which recommended for the K-12 curriculum level.

Combines full text with indexing and abstracts from 3,500 journals, magazines and newspapers — of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed — covering all disciplines.
Coverage: 1980 - current

Expanded Academic offers balanced coverage on a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology. Limit searches by full text, peer-reviews journals, or documents with images.

Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Coverage: 1916 - 2006 (Yearbook 9 - current)

Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series contains information for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

Bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 1300 journals as well as books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology and as well as business, education, law, social work, linguistics, and medicine.
Coverage: 1887 to present

From the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO 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. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

Comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
Coverage: 1895 to present

SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus, including full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals, more than 720 books and monographs, and 6,743 conference papers. It also contains informative abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, it features over 10,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Each author profile includes biographical data and bibliographic information, which together allow users to quickly ascertain an author's areas of expertise and academic/professional focus.

Full text from 140 journals covering sociology and social work plus abstracts and indexes for articles from over 1,800 international serials along with books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Coverage: 1952-Current

Over 40% of titles in CSA's Sociological Abstracts are published outside North America with over 20% of content published in languages other than English. 124 of the 140 full-text journals are refereed, including of the 129 ISI rated journals in sociology and social work. Deep archiving dates as far back as the 1920s for some titles.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Over 3,250 items ranging from commercial tests to measures published in journals and books available at the UML Libraries. Search by test name, author, year, subject or publisher.
Coverage: 1885 to 1999

Full-text access to 4-Volume set that covers the issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of distance learning.
Coverage: Publication date 2005

The Encyclopedia of Distance Learning contains more than 2,000 terms, definitions and explanations of concepts, processes and technologies of distance learning with over 6,000 additional references to existing literature on distance learning and technologies. Over 400 leading scholars from over 35 countries have provided this extensive coverage on topics such as workforce training, accessing education, digital divide, and the evolution of distance and online education.

Comprehensive coverage of the issues, methods, and theories that define the converging worlds of literacy and technology at the pre-collegiate level.
Coverage: Publication date 2005

Over 50 international experts have combined their research and practical experience into 35 all-inclusive chapters, redefining the way teaching and learning is dispensed. This online volume contains over 260 key terms with detailed definitions plus more than 1,300 comprehensive references to existing literature and research on literacy and technology.

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Guidance on best resources for Education research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.

Guide for the use of RefWorks crerated by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.