UWSSLEC Distance Education Program Toolkit   Tags: course_guides, education, library_media  

This guide is designed to help students in the UWSSLEC (University of Wisconsin System School Library Education Consortium) Distance Education Program find the Library resources needed for their research.

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Below is a list of some suggested databases to search for locating journal articles in the areas of education and library media.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)   
Although this is a multi-disciplinary database, there are many articles related to education and library media. Because this database includes magazine and newspapers articles in addition to journal articles, you might want to check the "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" checkbox when searching. This database includes nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)    
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. If you want to exclude ERIC documents from the results list, limit your search to "journal articles." There is also a "Peer Reviewed" limit in ERIC to retrieve scholarly articles.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCOhost)
This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. If you are looking for scholarly journal articles, there is a limit called "Academic Journal" under the "Publication Type" limit.

Education Full Text (WilsonWeb : 1983- )
Covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. Includes abstracts from January 1994 and indexing from June 1983. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.

Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost)
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost) 
Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of over 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 800 journals. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information dates as far back as 1965.

Educational Administrative Abstracts (EBSCOhost)   
Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, management, research and other key areas. The index contains more than 66,000 records.

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