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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
ERIC (Ebsco): The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. This version uses the Ebsco search interface. Includes the full-text of more than 2,200 ERIC Digests, and links to full-text journal articles in other Ebsco databases. Coverage is from 1966 to the present.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full-text databases, including Education Full Text, a good resource for finding scholarly undergraduate-level journal articles. Indexing begins in 1983; full-text of selected articles in 1996.
ScienceDirect: Elsevier is the world's leading publisher of social, physical, and health science information, producing 25% of the world's scientific journal information. Elsevier delivers this content through the ScienceDirect platform, which offers tremendous search capability and convenient personalization features that save time and increase productivity. The ScienceDirect College Edition collection provides access to more than 1,900 multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal titles, including leading titles like Child Abuse & Neglect and Educational Research Review.

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ERIC (U.S. Dept. of Education): The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. This interface to the ERIC database does NOT include links to online articles, but does link to full-text of recent non-periodical ERIC documents.
ERIC (FirstSearch): This version uses the FirstSearch interface. Search using keywords and names. Simple and advanced search modes are available. There is also access to the online Thesaurus (click the "Subjects" button on the search page). Print or email selected records. Includes links to selected online articles, and also links to full-text of recent non-periodical ERIC documents.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR includes six journals in the area of education. Note: coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years are not available.
National Center for Education Statistics: Includes access to the full-text of educational statistics, including the Condition of Education, Education Statistics Quarterly, Digest of Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics, and other NCES Reports.
Project Muse: Full-text from nearly 250 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies by title.
PsycINFO: PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and the psychological aspects of related fields, including education. Includes links to full-text journal articles in other Ebsco databases. Coverage is from the 1800's to the present.

Last updated September 2, 2008