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Additional Education Databases For Journal Articles

• Educational Administration Abstracts - A comprehensive source of information about issues and research related to the administration of primary, secondary and post-secondary educational facilities and programs.
• Educator's Reference Centre - Consists of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports. It is a great resource for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. It also complements the ERIC database, because it provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC.
• Sage Journals Online - includes over 400 full-text journals with coverage going back to 1999. Subjects covered include: education, engineering, health, management, political science, criminology, psychology and sociology.

Databases With Printable Teaching Resources

• Curriculum Resource Center- An electronic library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.
• goENC - Collection of materials for K-12 math and science educators including lesson plans, articles about teaching practices, curriculum resources, and professional development tools.

K-12 Databases

• Canada in Context (formerly Student Resource Centre: Canadian Edition) - Includes reference, periodicals, primary source, and multimedia resources geared toward Canadian students and educators. It contains more than 525 full-text magazines including 200 Canadian periodicals, nearly one thousand biographies on famous Canadian individuals, 400 new essays written by Canadian writers and comprehensive coverage of nearly 300 Canadian authors. New reference content is added on an ongoing basis. New full-text periodical and newspaper articles are added every day.
• Canadian Points of View Reference Centre - A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides information on 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.
• Career Cruising - An interactive career resource designed for people of all ages.
• Discovering Collection - Covers the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, also provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia.
• Junior Edition - A periodical database designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
• Kids Infobits - A database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
• Student Edition - A periodical database designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
• Teen Health & Wellness - A comprehensive database that allows teens to research health-related issues important to their well-being. It’s both a research/report tool and a self-help resource.

   

  Additional Databases

  • British Education Index - Provides over 300 education and training journals published in the British Isles.
  • Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies- Includes 15 full text Canadian major daily newspapers.
  • Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) - Includes more than 290,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books ranging from earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults.
  • The Horn Book Guide Online - Publishes short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people.
  • JSTOR - Full-text multidisciplinary archive of journal articles
  • Music Education Resource Base - Includes more than 31,000 resources in music and music education from 35 Canadian and international journals and other sources.
  • Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection (ORO Premium) - It contains over 180 reference works in over 20 different subjects.
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) - A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Full-Text from 1997-
  • PsycINFO - World literature on psychology and the behavioral sciences
  • Sociological Abstracts - A major source for sociological research
  • Theses Canada Portal - Full -text versions of Canadian theses and dissertations published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002. Also contains bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965.
  • Web of Science - Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes cited reference searching.