Education


Chronicle of higher education

This online version features daily reports on developments in higher education, information technology, and distance education. The full text of the current issue of The Chronicle is available every Monday morning, following the Friday print publication. The site features an archive of more than 12 years of The Chronicle. You can access the Chronicle via your smart phone by setting up a free Chronicle account using your KU email address.

Education abstracts

Provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals, books and yearbooks. Covers adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, teaching methods and much more. Dates of coverage: 1983 to present.

ERIC

Provides indexing and abstracts to the education literature. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering the published journal literature. Many of the documents, identified by the ED number, are available full text.

Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete

This collection has more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports. Content included in the database is almost entirely full-text. This database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty -- such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. Educator's Reference Complete also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy.

Google scholar

A web search engine that provides a way to search the scholarly literature including articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions.  Sources include academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites.

For best results, configure Google Scholar to provide "Get at KU" links to KU Libraries' licensed resources, especially if you're working from off-campus. See our information on accessing KU Libraries resources via Google Scholar.

Mental measurements yearbook, with Tests in print

Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. Contains the text of the Buros Institute's Yearbooks. Tests in Print includes current information about test purpose, publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date, and test authors. This resource does not contain actual tests. (Restricted to 8 simultaneous users.)

Policy File Index

Provides online access to abstracts and if available, links to full-text articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.