Databases by Subject

Education


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These directories help scholars publish their manuscripts by providing current addresses, phone, e-mail, websites, publication guidelines, and review information for journals in education, business, and psychology. 

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.

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.

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.

This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.

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.

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.

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Indexes and abstracts articles in the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Also the study of descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

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.)

Provides information on undergraduate and graduate programs at colleges and universities.  Includes scholarship information and test prep materials.

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.

Includes full text journal articles from some of the most important journals in the field of education and library science and contains U.S. Department of Education reports.

This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.

Provides online access to over 3.8 million dissertations and master's theses with 1.7 million available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the ProQuest UMI database. 

Provides full-text journal articles, many of which are indexed in PsychInfo​.  The content in this database is especially strong in child psychology and counseling services.

This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.

Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations in psychology and psychiatry. The journal literature spans 1887 to the present. Indexes journal content published by the American Psychological Association that is available through PsycARTICLES. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present.

Provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.

Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals in assessment, continuing education, curriculum development, elementary education, and school administration.

Provides full text coverage for more than 330 trade and industry related periodicals.

This resource is supported through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the State Library of Kansas.