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• Chronicle of Higher Education

  
  The number one news source for higher education. (Full-text)

• ERIC

  
  Annotated references to educational materials in Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles in Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). (Some full-text)

• InfoTrac Educators Collection

  
  A set of resources for those studying to be teachers and educational administrators, covering developments in technologies, instruction, etc. (Some full-text)

• MAS Ultra: School Edition

  
  Includes magazine articles, reports, original historical documents, the CIA World Factbook, books, pamphlets, and book reviews. (Some full-text)

• Professional Development Collection

  
  Collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. (Some full-text)

• Testing & Education Reference Center

  
  Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your educa

Multi-subject Databases Recommended for
Education Research
 

• Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)

  
  (Some full text)

• Academic Search Complete

  
  Provides more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, with indexing and abstracts for 10,900 publications. Content goes back as far as 1865. Covers many academic disciplines including art, music, literature, history, sociology, psychology, government, and science. (Some full-text)

• General Reference Center Gold

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)

• InfoTrac OneFile

  
  A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.

• JSTOR

  
  Includes articles from over 300 research journals covering a wide range of academic fields. (Full-text)

• Project Muse

  
  This multi-purpose database offers the full text of over 300 scholarly journals covering the humanities, arts, and social sciences. (Full-text)

• ProQuest Direct

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)

• Wilson OmniFile

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)