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ERIC (EBSCO version) (Full Text)
The Education Resources Information Center provides index and full text to journal articles, government studies, books, dissertations, and other material on education and related fields. Combines citations of sponsored reports, from Resources in Education, and over 750 journals, from the Current Index to Journals in Education. Covers 1966 to the present.

ERIC (U.S. Dept. of Education "free" version)(Full Text)
The new Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) online education database provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), are available for free.

Education Full Text(Full Text)
Indexing and abstracting for over 475 English-language periodicals, monographs and year-books in the field of education. Indexing from 1983; abstracts from 1994; full text from 1996.

Educator's Reference Complete (Full Text) Discus
Database of education resources covering multiple levels from preschool to college. Contains more than 1,100 full-text periodicals covering a variety of disciplines, 200 reports from the U.S. Department of Education and resources on educational specialties and issues related to administration, funding and policies. Updated daily.

Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.

Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text)  Discus

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. Please log out when you are finished.

Media Review Digest Provides extensive review coverage of educational media, along with strong supplemental coverage of entertainment resources from 1989 to the present.

Primary Search (Full Text)
Focusing on elementary school research Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984.

The African American Experience
A collection of resources on African American life covering such topics as history, biography, literature, arts, education, civil rights, politics, folklore, etc.

CQ Electronic Library (Full Text)
Includes CQ Researcher, a source for in-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day, CQ Weekly, a source for expert coverrage of the U.S. Congress such as status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and CQ's Encyclopedia of American Government. Now includes CQ Public Affairs Collection providing a wide range of public policy issues. Also includes internet links in Education.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately 140 journals.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
The most extensive online collection of copyright-released multimedia material available. It contains The Associated Press' current year's photo library and a wide selection of images from their vast negative and print library, dating from the 1840s. The Multimedia Archive contains over 750,000 photos.

Tests in Print
Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

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Print and Electronic Resources

Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Presents more than 2,500 graphs, charts, maps, and photos that cover the most important and interesting facts about every country on the planet.

Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the United States (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Contains more than 2,500 graphs, charts, maps, and photos that cover the most important and interesting facts about every state in the country.

Encyclopedia of Eduction (Full Text)
Gale Virtual Reference Library

Digest of Education Statistics
REF Desk L 111 A6

Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education
REF LB 1139.25 E53 1997

The Encyclopedia of Education Information
REF LB 1028.27.U6 E53 1997

The Encyclopedia of Educational Research
REF LB 15 E48 1992

Encyclopedia of Language and Education
REF P 40.8 .E53 1997

Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
REF LC4007 E53 1987

The International Encyclopedia of Education: Research and Studies
REF LB 15 I569

International Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
REF LB1028.3 .I567 1996

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Internet Resources

Education World
For educators and students. Education news, lesson planning, chat forums, education site reviews and links to commercial sites.

EINet Galaxy
Guide for professional educators to academic institutions, financial aid, special education and much more.

GEM Gateway to Educational Materials
a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

Global Schoolhouse
Great educational resources from Microsoft with the best in Internet resources and projects.

Nye Labs Online
Bill Nye "the science guy" provides science lessons and projects.

Teaching and Learning on the World Wide Web
Search-able dynamic sites for teachers to use in teaching.

World Wide Classroom
Over 4,000 schools in over 70 countries with links to home pages of many institutions.

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Resources at the College

College of Charleston School of Education

Mining the WWW for Quality Resources
an LITC pre-conference workshop--lots of subject specific education Web sites

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