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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Education Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, book reviews, interviews, recordings, and more. H. W. Wilson
Education Research CompleteAll levels of education and all educational specialties. Indexing and abstracting for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text for more than 950 journals and numerous 81 books and conference papers.
ERIC - Educational Resources Information CenterCitations and full text for journals, books, and working papers in education. EBSCOhost
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Project MuseBasic Undergraduate Collection. Full text access to 125 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles are available in full text. Check "Only content I have full access to" for full text access only.
PsycINFOPsychology and related disciplines, including medicine, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and other areas. Nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Coverage from 1887 to the present. Updated weekly. All records published in Psychological Abstracts are now in PsycINFO. EBSCOhost/American Psychological Association
Teacher Reference CenterIndexing and abstracts for over 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines. EBSCOhost
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

L - Education LA - History of Education
LB - Theory and Practice of Education LC - Special Aspects of Education.
PN1008.2-1009.5 - Juvenile literature See JUVENILE - [The juvenile books collection uses the Dewey Decimal system and is located across from the elevator on the second floor]

Reference books

BookCall number
Curriculum Trends: A Reference HandbookREF LB1570 .J33 2003
Encyclopedia of Education (8 volumes)REF LB15 .E47 2003
Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment: Ability, Achievement, and behavior in ChildrenREF LB3051 .H31985 2001
Publication Manual of the American Psychological AssociationREF BF 76.7 .P83 2001
The College Blue Book (6 volumes)REF LA226 .C685 2006

Web resources

Blue Web'n
Columbia Education Center
Developing Educational Standards
Directory of Resources on Learning Disabilities
Education World
Get Ready To Read
Institute of Education Sciences (U.S. Dept. of Ed.)
National Association for the Education of Young Children
National Center for Educational Statistics
PBS Teacher Source
Phonics Skill Chart
Successful Charter Schools
Virginia Journal of Education
Virginia Standards of Learning