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Education Full Text (WilsonWeb : 1983- )
Covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. Includes abstracts from January 1994 and indexing from June 1983. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. ERIC is not a full-text database although the EBSCO version allows access to the full text of articles indexed in other EBSCO databases. EBSCO also contains links to EDRS to get full text (starting 1996) of many ERIC Documents (ED). Off Campus students will need to use the E*Subscribe link below. The University Library owns the complete microfiche set of the ERIC ED documents.

ERIC
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No ID needed. The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. ERIC is not a full-text database. The University Library owns the microfiche set of the ERIC ED documents.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library
A searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (WebSpirs)
Provides test users with descriptive information, references, and critical reviews of tests.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost)
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of over 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 800 journals. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information dates as far back as 1965.

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Supplemental Education Databases

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
CLCD is a complete source of information about children's books and a tool for leading you to the best books. There are more than 150,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 27 sources of reviews including The Cooperative Children's Book Center [CCBC] which originates in Madison.

ComDisDOME (1997- )
ComDisDOME is a continuously updated information service developed by Communication Sciences and Disorders educators and professionals for educators, clinicians, researchers and students in the fields of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. It contains over 130,000 citations from over 125 journals in the field and searches multiple content sources, including books and dissertations.

EBSCO Animals (EBSCOhost)
EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, & III Collection
JSTOR is an electronic journal archival project which provides full-text access to complete runs of back issues of scholarly journal titles approximately 35 fields, including Education.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCOhost)
Provided free by EBSCO publishing, this world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

Library Literature & Information Science (EBSCOhost)
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Library Literature & Information Science is produced by the H.W. Wilson Company and indexes articles and book reviews from key library and information science periodicals. Created by librarians for librarians, this database provides coverage for over 300 books, 380 journals, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses and pamphlets, creating a database of over 242,000 records. Library Literature & Information Sciences includes English and non-English records dating back to 1980.

Literary Index
FREE
This literary Index is a master index to the printed editions of the 43 literary series published by Gale. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.

MAS Ultra-School Edition (EBSCOhost)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for nearly 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 237 full text reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. It is updated daily.

Middle Search Plus (EBSCOhost)
Middle Search Plus provides abstracts and indexing for over 170 magazines, and searchable full text for over 52 of the most frequently used magazines in middle school libraries, including 115 pamphlets, and also offers Essential Documents of American History. This database is specially designed for middle schools, K-8 and large elementary schools, and covers the majority of a middle school library's periodical collection.

Primary Search (EBSCOhost)
Primary Search Plus is designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms. Updated monthly, this database provides the full text of over 40 magazines for young readers and abstracts and indexing for over 120 magazines. With 109 full text pamphlets, this database provides wonderful opportunities for children to research information quickly and easily, and to acquire searching skills at an early age. It also includes three Funk & Wagnalls publications, the New World Encyclopedia, the World Almanac for Kids and the World Almanac of the USA.

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.

SPORT Discus (EBSCOhost)
Indexes and abstracts all aspects of sport, physical fitness, sport science and recreation.

TeachingBooks
TeachingBooks offers original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. From Badgerlink.

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