EDUCATION DATABASES

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ERIC
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) database contains over 2,200 full text digests, as well as citations and abstracts for journal articles, and full text reports from the most recent 10 years dealing with all areas and levels of education.

Dissertation Abstracts
Abstracts of U.S., Canadian, British, and some European dissertations and theses from higher education institutions.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Indexes more than 600 publications, plus books, research reports and conference proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Professional Development Collection
A comprehensive collection of full text on education selected from a specialized collection of 520 high quality journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also includes educational reports.

Teacher Reference Center
Provides abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

Resources for Educators and Elementary Education Curriculum Students

Primary Search
This database, designed specifically for elementary school libraries, contains full text articles from approximately 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and features Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. The database also provides the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection.

Middle Search Plus
This database, designed specifically for middle school libraries, contains full text articles from more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags."