Education and Counseling Databases
(see also
Speech & Hearing,
Psychology, and
General)
[Indexes to Journals and Books]
Online Books: [Education]
[Children's Literature]
[Directories]
[Educational Technology]
[Psychology and Development]
[Subject Teaching]
[Also of Interest]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- Education
Full Text (WilsonWeb)
 
- Comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language
periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks, indexing and abstracting articles of at least one column
in length. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Cover to cover full-text from
hundreds of journals begins in January 1996. English-language books relating to education
published in 1995 or later are also indexed.
- ERIC :
Educational Resources Information Center
(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Covers all aspects of eduction from early childhood to college and adult,
counseling, educational administration, gifted and special education,
libraries, information resources, language, teacher education,
tests, and more. Includes journal articles, conferences, meetings,
government documents, theses, dissertations, reports,
audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and monographs.
Corresponds to the two printed indexes: Resources
in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education
(CIJE). Covers 1966 to the present. Includes full text of ERIC documents.
- ERIC
: Educational Resources Information
Center (FirstSearch)
- Contains annotated references to journal articles
issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in
Education (CIJE) and to nonjournal material
issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE).
Includes full text of ERIC documents and some journals.
- ERIC :
Educational Resources Information Center
(US Dept of Education)
- United States Department of Education website access to the ERIC database and the
full text of ERIC documents. No password needed for remote access
- Education
Research Complete (Ebsco)
- Resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education
from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as
multilingual education, health education, and testing. Provides indexing and abstracts
for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes
full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related
conference papers.
- Education:
A Sage Full-Text Collection (Sage)
- Provides the full text of 33 education journals, some dating as far back as 1917.
- Teacher
Reference Center (TRC) (Ebsco)
- Offered free from Ebsco, this database provides indexing and
abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade
journals, periodicals, and books. Covers key education topics such as
assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum
development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science,
mathematics, and more. No password needed for remote access
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
- Almanac
of American Education - 2006 (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides current and historical education statistics on the national,
state, and county levels, along with analysis and graphs.
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more.
- Note: to use ebrary, you must first download and install the
ebrary Reader on your computer (more information).
- Encyclopedia
of Disability (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers the definitions, fundamental concepts, basic history, diversity,
cultural contexts, experiences, health care issues, environmental constraints, helpful
accommodations, social movements, laws, policies, theories, and practices in the
disability arena for both the general reader and the specialist. Contributors are from
the fields of sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, law, government,
philosophy, and ethics. Includes a wealth of primary source documents.
- Encyclopedia
of Education (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of
education both within the United States and throughout the world. Approximately 900 articles
offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice.
- World
Education Encyclopedia (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Survey of the educational systems of 233 countries. Each entry
covers history, background; constitutional & legal foundations; educational system
overview; preprimary & primary education; secondary education; higher education;
administration, finance, educational research; nonformal education; teaching profession;
summary; and bibliography. Includes information on topics such as new political &
educational philosophies, new technologies, and study abroad programs.
- Children's Literature:
- American Juvenile
Collection:
- A research collection of children's fiction,
folklore, and fairy tales printed in North America, covering the years
1910-1960. The AJC continues the gathering of children's books by
Christine B. Gilbert, that included fiction and non-fiction, mostly from Great Britain, published
before 1909. The AJC retains a few of them, especially appropriate
fiction titles. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Cambridge
Guide to Children's Books in English (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides a critical and appreciative overview of children's books
written in English around the world. Covers the history of children's books from pre-Norman
times to the present as well as current developments in publishing practices and in children's
own reading. Includes coverage of television, comics, annuals and the growing range
of media texts.
- Cambridge
Guide to Children's Books in English (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Children's Literature
Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
- Provides an extensive array of information about more
than 900,000 children's books, video and audio recordings,
film strips, and other children-focused media.
Records come with all of the official cataloging data, subject
terms, and annotations. In addition, CLCD contains more
than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books,
ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and
nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500
new reviews are added to the database monthly. Includes
award information and placement on Best Books lists.
- Continuum
Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Growing
and Knowing: A Selection Guide for Children's Literature
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Junior
Edition - K12 (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this
database is designed for students in junior high
and middle school, with magazines, newspapers
and reference books (most are full-text) for
information on current events, the arts, science,
popular culture, health, people, government,
history, sports and more.
- Primary Search
(Ebsco)
- Contains the full text of nearly 70 popular magazines written for
elementary school students, all of which are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile),
and abstracts for nearly 100 additional magazines. Includes over 100 student pamphlets,
the American Heritage Children's Dictionary (3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin),
and an image collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. Full text
goes back to 1989, while indexing goes back to 1984.
- Directories:
- College
Blue Book - 35th ed. (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Guide to thousands of two- and four-year schools in the United States and Canada.
Different volumes cover: narrative descriptions - tabular data - degrees offered by college & subject -
occupational education - scholarships, fellowships, grants, & loans - and distance learning programs.
- Comparative
Guide to American Elementary and Secondary Schools - 5th ed. (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Offers a profile of every public school district in the United States serving
1,500 or more students and provides pertinent evaluative and demographic statistics
necessary to evaluate educational programs nationwide.
- Scholarships,
Fellowships and Loans (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides more than 4,200 sources of education-related financial aid
and awards at all levels of study. Includes a section on federal financial aid that features
a quick summary of programs sponsored by the federal government. Also includes a
state-by-state listing of agencies that users can contact in their home state.
- SPIN: Sponsored Program Information Network (InfoEd)
- Consolidates information about funding opportunities
for research, scholarship, programs, residencies, conferences, creative
projects and more in order to help users make comparisons between a
multitude of programs and their sponsors and therefore pick the best
prospects for their funding applications. Made available by the
LIU Office of Sponsored Research.
For more information or to obtain a password to access
this database from off-campus, contact Christopher P. Egan at (516) 299-2712.
- Educational Technology:
- Advanced
Teaching Methods for the Technology Classroom (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides a comprehensive, critical approach to meeting the new
challenges of technology in the classroom by covering the analyzing, designing,
evaluating, and implementing technology-based curriculum and instruction.
- Encyclopedia
of Virtual Communities and Technologies (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the concepts and realities in the field of
virtual communities and technologies, presenting an in-depth analysis of the conceptual and
technical impacts of virtual environments in our global village. Includes definitions of over
830 terms and an extensive bibliography.
- Enhancing
Learning Through Technology (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents the latest research on theory and practice, as well as capturing
learning designs and best-practices in education. Covers learning activities, brain-based learning,
web-based instruction, 3-d virtual environments, global learning environment, online learning
communities, networked course collaboration, computer supported collaborative learning, and more.
- Teaching
and Learning with Virtual Teams (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Investigates the issues around collaborative group e-learning in both the
online and hybrid higher education classroom, offering a view of the current research
and practice on how students can effectively learn to work in virtual teams in
universities around the globe.
- Teaching
in the Knowledge Society: New Skills and Instruments for Teachers (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Investigates changes induced by information and communications
technology in today's education system including learning environments,
learning success, virtual environments, the world wide web, media selection, and more.
- Technology
and Diversity in Higher Education: New Challenges (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides current and effective educational practices, and examines
new challenges involving emerging technologies in increasingly diverse learning environments.
- Technology
Application Competencies for K-12 Teachers (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Based on national and state standards for what teachers and students should
know and be able to do, this book helps teachers develop both a general computer literacy
and a profession-specific literacy that can be successfully applied in the classroom to
design instructional materials, perform professional jobs, and teach via multimedia
materials delivered in many formats.
- Technology
Literacy Applications in Learning Environments (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Defines instructional technology skills and discusses the use of
technology literacy in higher education along with the changes needed in the
university culture. Also looks at problems created by the digital divide. Covers
such skills as word processing, presentation software, storage, human
interaction, problem solving, and virtual reality and presents a series of examples
and guides that promote instructional technology literacy.
- Technology
Supported Learning and Teaching: A Staff Perspective (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Enumerates the difficulties in implementing technology within the
college curriculum in the context of institutional policy and procedures. Covers
infrastructural issues, cultural issues, pedagogical issues, and technological issues.
- Psychology and Development:
(See also: Psychology and Psychiatry Databases)
- Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Child Development (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Child
Development (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Part of the Macmillan Psychology Reference Series, this title
covers issues related to human development from conception through adolescence.
Written for the general reader.
- Encyclopedia
of School Psychology
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Learning
and Memory
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Mental
Measurements Yearbook (Ebsco)
- Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, it provides users
with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse
areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Covers from Volume 9 to the present.
- Subject Teaching:
- Mathematics
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Real-Life
Math (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Science
of Everyday Things (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Science
Reference Center (Ebsco)
- Includes the full text of nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books,
periodicals, and other sources. Covers all sciences, including: biology, chemistry,
earth & space, environment, wildlife, medicine, history, physics, scientist
biographies, technology, and more. Provides teachers with standards-based content
by indexing articles by categories taken from state and national curriculum standards.
Also can be searched by lexile reading levels for grades one through twelve.
- MLA
International Bibliography (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
- Produced by the Modern Language Association, this covers modern
literatures from all over the world, literary theory & criticism, dramatic
arts (film, radio, television, and theatre), folklore (folk literature, music, art,
rituals, and belief systems), languages & linguistics (study, history,
theory, comparative, semantics, translation, etc.), teaching (of language,
literature, rhetoric and composition at college level), and the history of printing
& publishing. Contains more than 2 million records for journals articles
(from over 4,400 journals), books, book articles, published conference papers,
dissertations, curriculum guides, electronic materials, and more, in over 60
languages published from 1926 to the present, with some journals going as far
back as the 1880s. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals with
publication information about over 7,100 titles.
- Also of Interest:
- Beyond
Degrees: Professional Learning for Knowledge Services (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers continuing professional development and lifelong learning in the
information services environment to provide guidelines for conceptualizing, designing, and
measuring successful programs for professional learning, staff development, and professional
growth in an organization.
- Encyclopedia
of Children and Childhood in History and Society
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Covers all aspects of the nature and use of language
including phonetics, phonology, morphology,
syntax, and semantics, as well as the various fields of linguistics:
descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and
geographical. Includes hearing and speech physiology,
interpersonal behavior and communication,
learning disabilities and special education,
nonverbal communication, writing systems, and more.
Covers 1973 to the present.
- Turnitin (iParadigms)
- Compares submitted student papers against a database of websites,
journal articles, and other student papers to determine which passages, if any,
have been plagiarized and from which sources. Also includes features for class
assignments, peer review, and grading.
(More information about Turnitin and setting up an account.)
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
NOVEL (New York Online Virtual
Electronic Library) is a statewide virtual library provided free to
the public by the New York State Library.
It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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