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Academic Search Complete
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.
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ERIC (from Ebsco)
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.- ERIC (free access)
- A bibliography of educational materials available since 1966 from the journals Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Designed for teachers, students, administrators, researchers and others interested in the field of education. The database includes the ERIC thesaurus, a complete list of descriptive terms used by ERIC to index and search the database. Fulltext of over 2,200 digests is available, including references for even more information. Citations, abstracts, and some fulltext from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.
- Educator's Desk Reference Sponsored by the Information Institute of Syracuse, this site provides links to 2,000+ lesson plans and 3,000+ links to online education in the areas of counseling, management, technology, evaluation, etc.
- The Gateway to Educational Materials
- " The Gateway to Educational Materials is 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." The database is searchable by title, subject, keyword, or full-text. Search results can then be narrowed down to grade level or other factors.
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JSTOR
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Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
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Professional Development Collection
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world
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Project Muse
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Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
- Teacher Reference Center
- Includes more than 260 titles including books, teacher and administrator trade journals and periodicals providing coverage of educational topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science, mathematics, and more for K-12 teachers and librarians.
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ELibrary Curriculum
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries. Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, plus audio/video content.
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Encyclopedia of Animals
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - This extensive database provides thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.
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Kids Search
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - A combined search interface for Middle Search Plus, Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Animals, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, and TOPICsearch.
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MAS Ultra: School Edition
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Targeted at high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags.
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Middle Search Plus
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags.
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Primary Search
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
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Searchasaurus
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - A kid-friendly search interface for Middle Search Plus, Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Animals, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Primary Search, and a collection of images.
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Student Research Center Enhanced Interface
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - A combined search interface for Health Source: Consumer Edition, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, TOPICsearch, MAS Ultra: School Edition, Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Vocational and Career Collection.
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TOPICsearch
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.
Databases for K-12 Students
- CEC Lesson Plans
- Lesson plans for K-12 grades from the Columbia Education Center.
- Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
- Searchable database of bibliographic information on over 3,000 books that have been selected for " quality of art and writing, presentation of material, and appeal to the intended audience. " Each bibliographic item is annotated.
- Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption
- Indexes and abstracts of journal articles and some full text working papers searchable here. Free with registration.
- Department of Education Publications
- Full text publications from the U.S. Department of Education, including, newsletters, research syntheses, and reports
- Digest of Education Statistics
- Searchable compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school.
- EASE History: An Experience Acceleration Support Environment
- A rich online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History. Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History.
- Encyclopedia of Educational Statistics
- Quick and easy access to recent versions of The Condition of Education, The Digest of Educational Statistics, Educational Indicators: An International Perspective, and Youth Indicators. Access tables of contents, browse by subject area, and conduct full-text searches.
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Statistics on elementary, secondary and post-secondary education including graduation rates, financial information, reading assessment, school crime, and much more.
- School District Demographics System
- "The School District Demographics website provides access to school district geographic and demographic data useful for describing and analyzing characteristics of school districts, children and K-12 education."
- The Solution Site
- Offers K-12 lesson plans emphasizing active learning
- Theory into Practice Database
- Summaries and bibliographies on more than 50 major learning theories.
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