Databases for Teachers

• Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
  The Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database includes 1,800,000 records for children’s books and audio books. It also provides reviews of books from over 30 sources, including The Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books, Children’s Literature, Horn Book, and Booklist, and is updated monthly. The database provides extensive search options, including category/genre, age, reading level, grade level, language, and award books. To identify libraries that own specific titles, search the WorldCat database.
• Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
  This free database, compiled by a children's librarian, allows you to search award winners by several criteria.
• Educational Administration Abstracts
  Abstracts and summaries of the latest information, research findings and ideas on management aspects of topics such as personnel, curriculum, school-community relations, supervision, minority group relations and professional education. Coverage begins at volume 34, 1999. A print copy is available in the 4th Floor Reference Collection, call number: LB2806.A1E23.
• Educator's Reference Desk
  The Educator's Reference Desk includes a searchable database of lesson plans, a question archive, as well as links to a variety of education resources.
• ERIC
  ERIC is the largest education database in the world. Along with articles and documents focusing on issues and topics related to education, ERIC also includes curriculum materials. To focus your search on these items, use the Advanced Search option, selecting the "Publication Type" limit. There are several different limits that relate to curriculum materials, including "Creative Works" , "Guides- - All", "Guides - Classrooom - Learners", "Guides - Classroom - Teacher Materials", "Guides - Classroom - General Materials", "Guides - Non-Classroom", and "Test/Questionnaires". There is also a limit for Education Level. For more information, view ERIC's help guide.
• Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online
  KCDL Online is a searchable database that provides curriculum information on a broad variety of subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. It includes citations for over 7,000 curriculum documents and contact information on the agencies that issue the curricula. Over 3000 full-text documents are available in the collection. Curriculum documents not available in full-text may be available on microfiche via the Library's interlibrary loan service.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
  This searchable database includes extracts from the full-text of the reviews and descriptive information about tests and measurement instruments that are contained in the print title of the same name (Z5814.P8R91 Regenstein 4th Floor Reading Room). Coverage begins with the 9th edition (1980) and continues to the present. The database is updated every six months. The producer of the database, the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, removes older entries from the database when a new edition of a test is published. Buros offers a free service, Test Reviews Online, that provides excerpts from reviews for more than 4,000 commercially published tests.
• Mathematics Education Database = MATHDI
  This database provides the indexing contained in the documents section of the publication Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik (ZDM) / International Reviews on Mathematical Education, published by the European Mathematical Society. The database, beginning with 1976, provides indexing for materials in mathematics education and computer science education at all levels, from pre-school to teacher training and adult education. Topics range from research and practice of mathematics education to the basic pedagogical and psychological issues affecting mathematics education. Approximately 50% of the citations are to journal articles taken from more than 500 journal titles. The remainder of the citations are to a wide array of materials: textbooks, research reports, conference papers, dissertations, curriculum guides, audiovisual materials, software, and monographs including citations for individual chapters. The database utilizes a specialized Mathematics Education Subject Classification (MESC) scheme that includes a digit representing the grade or difficulty level of the material. A list of serial titles indexed by ZDM and MathDI is available.
• Professional Development Collection
  Specialized collection of journals designed for professional educators. Full-text is included for approximately 500 titles, with some content dating as far back as 1965. The database includes indexing only for about 100 additional titles.
• Teacher Reference Center Freely Available
  This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education 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 & Librarians.