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Citing ERIC Documents
Description: Examples of citations in APA, Chicago, and MLA styles for ERIC documents from online or print sources.
Restrictions: None
Education Research Complete
Description: Covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, full text for more than 950 journals, selected books, and numerous education-related conference papers.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
Description: Indexes journals and documents in education; with abstracts, curriculum resources and full-text ERIC documents.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
National Center for Education Statistics
Description: The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the US and other nations. Includes links to publications, data and surveys available through NCES.
Restrictions: None
1Education Digest
Description: Education Digest reviews the best of recent periodicals and reports on education.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals, Reviews
2Education Research Complete
Description: Provides bibliographic and full text access to scholarly research and information relating to many areas of education.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles, Conference papers
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
3Education Reviews
Description: Reviews of recent books in education, covering the entire range of education scholarship and practice. A service of the College of Education at Arizona State University and the Michigan State University Libraries.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Reviews
4Education Week
Description: In-depth news stories, features, commentaries and special reports on critical and timely issues in education.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Newspapers
5ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
Description: Indexes journals and documents in education; with abstracts, lesson plans and some full-text ERIC documents.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1966-present
Use to locate: Articles, Books, Conference papers, Dissertations & Theses
6Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Description: Provides information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1985-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
7ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Description: The world's largest archive of computerized social science data. All data sets are freely available within the DePaul domain.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Statistics & Data Sets
8Mental Measurements Yearbook
Description: Information about all English-language standardized tests covering educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Reviews
9Music Education Resource Base
Description: Indexes Canadian journals in music education.
Restrictions: None
Dates Covered: 1956-present
Use to locate: Articles
10Professional Development Collection
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting for over 595 education journals. Full text is provided for more than 500 of these, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1965-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
11ProQuest Education Journals
Description: Full-text journals in education and related fields.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1986-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
12PsycInfo
Description: Indexes journals, dissertations, books and book chapters in all areas of psychology. Many full-text articles; some articles have abstracts only.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1887-present
Use to locate: Articles, Dissertations & Theses
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
13Schools: Studies in Education
Description: Refereed international education journal for educators, administrators, university professors, and others who work with school-aged students from pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade. Published by the University of Chicago in association with the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles
14Social Sciences Abstracts
Description: Indexes social science, business and political journals; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1983-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
15Social Sciences Citation Index
Description: Indexes references lists in social science journals. Recommended for advanced research on where authors and articles have been cited.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1985-present
Use to locate: Articles
16Sociological Abstracts
Description: Indexes journals, book chapters, association papers and dissertations in the social sciences; with abstracts since 1974.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1963-present
Use to locate: Articles, Dissertations & Theses
17Tests in Print
Description: Bibliography to current commercially available tests with information on test purpose, publisher, acronym, publication date, price and author. Can be searched along with Mental Measurements Yearbook by going to the EBSCO Host link and selecting both. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Search for this resource in the library catalog
Use to locate: Books, E-books
1Childstats
Description: Access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including economic security, health, behavior and social environment and education. Maintained by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
Restrictions: None
2ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
Description: Indexes journals and documents in education; with abstracts, lesson plans and some full-text ERIC documents.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1966-present
3ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Description: The world's largest archive of computerized social science data. All data sets are freely available within the DePaul domain.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
4International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description: More than 4,000 articles and 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Search for this resource in the library catalog
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
5National Center for Education Statistics
Description: The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the US and other nations. Includes links to publications, data and surveys available through NCES.
Restrictions: None
6Tests in Print
Description: Bibliography to current commercially available tests with information on test purpose, publisher, acronym, publication date, price and author. Can be searched along with Mental Measurements Yearbook by going to the EBSCO Host link and selecting both. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Search for this resource in the library catalog
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1American Journal of Education
Description: Presents research, theoretical statements, philosophical arguments, critical syntheses of a field of educational inquiry, and integrations of educational scholarship, policy, and practice.
2Change
Description: A magazine dealing with contemporary issues in higher learning.
3Education Digest
Description: Education Digest reviews the best of recent periodicals and reports on education.
4Harvard Educational Review
Description: A scholarly journal of opinion and research in education
5Phi Delta Kappan
Description: The professional journal for education addresses issues of policy and practice for educators at all levels and advocates research-based school reform.
6Teachers College Record
Description: A journal of research, analysis, and commentary in the field of education published continuously by Teachers College, Columbia University.
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1American Journal of Education
Description: Presents research, theoretical statements, philosophical arguments, critical syntheses of a field of educational inquiry, and integrations of educational scholarship, policy, and practice.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals
2Change
Description: A magazine dealing with contemporary issues in higher learning.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals
3Childstats
Description: Access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including economic security, health, behavior and social environment and education. Maintained by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Statistics & Data Sets
4Citing ERIC Documents
Description: Examples of citations in APA, Chicago, and MLA styles for ERIC documents from online or print sources.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Web Sites
5Education Digest
Description: Education Digest reviews the best of recent periodicals and reports on education.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals, Reviews
6Education Research Complete
Description: Provides bibliographic and full text access to scholarly research and information relating to many areas of education.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Articles, Conference papers
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
7Education Reviews
Description: Reviews of recent books in education, covering the entire range of education scholarship and practice. A service of the College of Education at Arizona State University and the Michigan State University Libraries.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Reviews
8Education Week
Description: In-depth news stories, features, commentaries and special reports on critical and timely issues in education.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Newspapers
9ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
Description: Indexes journals and documents in education; with abstracts, lesson plans and some full-text ERIC documents.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1966-present
Use to locate: Articles, Books, Conference papers, Dissertations & Theses
10Harvard Educational Review
Description: A scholarly journal of opinion and research in education
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals
11Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Description: Provides information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1985-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
12ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Description: The world's largest archive of computerized social science data. All data sets are freely available within the DePaul domain.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Statistics & Data Sets
13International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description: More than 4,000 articles and 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Search for this resource in the library catalog
Use to locate: Books, E-books, Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
14Mental Measurements Yearbook
Description: Information about all English-language standardized tests covering educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Reviews
15Music Education Resource Base
Description: Indexes Canadian journals in music education.
Restrictions: None
Dates Covered: 1956-present
Use to locate: Articles
16National Center for Education Statistics
Description: The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the US and other nations. Includes links to publications, data and surveys available through NCES.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Statistics & Data Sets
17National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
Description: The U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation recognize NCATE as an accrediting body for schools, colleges, and departments of education.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Web Sites
18Phi Delta Kappan
Description: The professional journal for education addresses issues of policy and practice for educators at all levels and advocates research-based school reform.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals
19Professional Development Collection
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting for over 595 education journals. Full text is provided for more than 500 of these, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1965-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
20Professional Education Associations
Description: Selected list of professional associations for teachers, teachers-in-training, graduate students, and educational researchers.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Web Sites
21ProQuest Education Journals
Description: Full-text journals in education and related fields.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1986-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
22PsycInfo
Description: Indexes journals, dissertations, books and book chapters in all areas of psychology. Many full-text articles; some articles have abstracts only.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1887-present
Use to locate: Articles, Dissertations & Theses
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
23Schools: Studies in Education
Description: Refereed international education journal for educators, administrators, university professors, and others who work with school-aged students from pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade. Published by the University of Chicago in association with the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Articles
24Social Sciences Abstracts
Description: Indexes social science, business and political journals; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1983-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
25Social Sciences Citation Index
Description: Indexes references lists in social science journals. Recommended for advanced research on where authors and articles have been cited.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1985-present
Use to locate: Articles
26Sociological Abstracts
Description: Indexes journals, book chapters, association papers and dissertations in the social sciences; with abstracts since 1974.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1963-present
Use to locate: Articles, Dissertations & Theses
27Teachers College Record
Description: A journal of research, analysis, and commentary in the field of education published continuously by Teachers College, Columbia University.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals
28Tests in Print
Description: Bibliography to current commercially available tests with information on test purpose, publisher, acronym, publication date, price and author. Can be searched along with Mental Measurements Yearbook by going to the EBSCO Host link and selecting both. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Search for this resource in the library catalog
Use to locate: Books, E-books
29U.S. Department of Education
Description: Resources for teachers, administrators, students, and parents.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Web Sites
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