Encyclopedias

Online Encyclopedias for Education

• Educators Reference Desk (Freely available)
  When the ERIC Clearinghouses were closed in December, 2003, the Information Institute of Syracuse archived the AskERIC resources and, through volunteer efforts, continues to add content to the Educators Reference Desk. Content includes Resource Guides to a multitude of topics, an archive of questions previously answered by AskERIC, more than 2000 lesson plans, and an interface to search a free version of the ERIC database.
• Encyclopedia of Education
  Print copy: Encyclopedia of education / James W. Guthrie, editor in chief. 2nd ed. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2003. 8 volumes. Call Number: LB15.E47 2003 Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
• CogNet
  This is a growing collection of searchable electronic texts in the field of cognitive and brain sciences. The website that was first designed to accompany the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (BF311.M556 1999; copies in Regenstein 4th Floor Reference Collection, Crerar Reference and Regenstein Bookstacks). The CogNet library now contains more than 400 books and over 30 journal titles are available full-text, as well as links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals. Cognet has other features as well, ranging from news, conference announcements, and awards to the ability to initiate or participate in seminars, discussions and commentaries.
• Encyclopedia of Pyschology )Freely Available)
  Created and maintained by the Department of Psychology, Jacksonville State University, this is a searchable, hierarchical directory of annotated links to web content in the following categories: Career; Environment Behavior Relationships; Organizations and Institutions of Psychology; Paradigms and Theories; People and History; Publications and Documents; and Underlying Reductionistic Machinery. The site also hosts the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior and the Theory Into Practice Database (TIP) that contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction.
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
  Online version of the Encyclopedia. Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. New York : Elsevier Science, 2001. 26 vols. Print copy: H41.I58 2001 Location(s): 1st Floor Reference Collection; D'Angelo Law, Reference
  
• Oxford Reference Online
  More than 20 dictionaries and reference handbooks are available covering topics that range from computing to performing arts. It is possible to search a single title, such as the Dictionary of Psychology, or selected ones, or across the entire database.
• Xipolis--German Reference Database
  This database consists of 18 standard reference tools--encyclopedias and dictionaries--in the German language. It includes such titles as the Brockhaus Enzyklopaedia.
• Credo Reference
  More than 100 searchable and browsable full-text reference books comprise this database. It includes some encyclopedias related to education, including Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development.
  

Selected Print Encyclopedias for Education

• Education and sociology : an encyclopedia / editors, David L. Levinson, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Alan R. Sadovnik. New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
  Call number: LC189.95 .E38 2002 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Encyclopedia of African-American education / edited by Faustine C. Jones-Wilson ... [et al.]. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
  Call number: LC2717.E530 1996 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Encyclopedia of American education / Harlow G. Unger. 2nd ed. New York : Facts on File, c2001. 3 v.
  Call number: LB17.U54 2001 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Encyclopedia of bilingualism and bilingual education / [edited by] Colin Baker and Sylvia Prys Jones. Clevedon ; Philadelphia : Multilingual Matters, c1998.
  Call number: LC3707 .E53 1998 Location(s): Reading Rm, floor 4 Regenstein
  
  
• The Encyclopedia of education. Lee C. Deighton, editor-in-chief. [New York] Macmillan [1971] 10 v.
  Call number: LB15.E56 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Encyclopedia of education / James W. Guthrie, editor in chief. 2nd ed. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2003. 8 volumes.
  Call number: LB15.E47 2003 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection Electronic Edition available through the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
  
  
• Encyclopedia of educational research / Marvin C. Alkin, editor in chief ; with the assistance of Michele Linden, Jane Noel, and Karen Ray ; sponsored by the American Educational Research Association. 6th ed. New York : Macmillan : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992. 4 v.
  Call number: LB15.E480 1992 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Encyclopedia of early childhood education / edited by Leslie R. Williams, Doris Pronin Fromberg. New York : Garland Pub., 1992.
  Call number: LB1139.25.E530 1992 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Encyclopedia of English studies and language arts : a project of the National Council of Teachers of English / general editor, Alan C. Purves, with Linda Papa, Sarah Jordan. New York : Scholastic, 1994. 2 v.
  Call number: PE65.E470 1994 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• The Encyclopedia of higher education / Burton R. Clark, Guy R. Neave, editors. Oxford, England ; Tarrytown, N.Y. : Pergamon Press, 1992. 4 v.
  Call number: LB15.E490 1992 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection; Regenstein Stacks
  
  
• The Encyclopedia of human development and education : theory, research, and studies / edited by R. Murray Thomas. Oxford [England] ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1990.
  Call number: BF713.E650 1990 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Encyclopedia of language and education. Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, c1997. 8 v.
  Call number: P40.8.E53 1997 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Encyclopedia of special education : a reference for the education of the handicapped and other exceptional children and adults / edited by Cecil R. Reynolds, E. Fletcher-Janzen. New York : J. Wiley & Sons, 2000. 3 v.
  Call number: LC4007.E53 2000 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Harper's encyclopedia of religious education / general editors, Iris V. Cully, Kendig Brubaker Cully. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1990.
  Call number: BV1461.H370 1990 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• International encyclopedia of economics of education / edited by Martin Carnoy. Oxford, OX, UK ; Tarrytown, N.Y., USA : Pergamon, 1995.
  Call number: LC65.I580 1995 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• The International encyclopedia of education / editors-in chief Torsten Husén, T. Neville Postlethwaite. [Oxford, England] : Pergamon ; New York : Elsevier Science, 1994. 12 v.
  Call number: LB15.I5690 1994 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• The international encyclopedia of higher education / editor in chief, Asa S. Knowles. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1978, c1977. 10 v.
  Call number: LB15.I570 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• International encyclopedia of national systems of education / edited by T. Neville Postlethwaite. Oxford, OX, UK ; Tarrytown, N.Y., USA : Pergamon, 1995.
  Call number: LB43.I5840 1995 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• International encyclopedia of teaching and teacher education / edited by Lorin W. Anderson. Oxford ; New York : Pergamon, 1995.
  Call number: LB1025.3.I580 1995 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• International encyclopedia of the sociology of education / edited by Lawrence J. Saha. Kidlington, Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Pergamon, 1997.
  Call number: LC191 .I49 1997 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• International higher education : an encyclopedia / edited by Philip G. Altbach. : New York : Garland Pub., 1991. 2 v.
  Call number: LB15.I590 1991 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection
  
  
• Kokusai kyo-iku jiten = Encyclopedia of international education / kanshu- Matsuzaki Iwao ; henshu- daihyo- Nishimuyra Shun'ichi. To-kyo- : Aruku, 1991.
  Call number: LB15.K65 1991 Location(s): E Asian Reading Rm, floor 5 Regenstein
  
  
• Shin kyo-ikugaku daijiten = New encyclopedia of education / henshu-daihyo- Hosoya Toshio ... [et al.]. To-kyo- : Daiichi Ho-ki Shuppan, Heisei 2 [1990]. 8 v.
  Call number: LB15.S55 1990 Location(s): E Asian Reading Rm, floor 5 Regenstein
  
  
• World education encyclopedia / edited by George Thomas Kurian. New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications, 1988.
  Call number: LB15.K87 1988 Location(s): Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection