Databases for Fields Related to Education

• Ageline
  AgeLine, produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), is an indexing service for the field of social gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related, and economic contexts. The database covers materials published from 1978 forward. References are included to books, journal articles, videos, dissertations, and other materials.
• Anthropology Plus
  Includes the complete contents of the print Anthropological Literature (Z5112.A53 Regenstein RR2) from Harvard University's Tozzer Library and Anthropolical Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK. Describes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies, in works published in English and other European languages from the late 19th century to the present. For education, the database is particularly useful for historical and contemporary research on customs and practices in countries and societies around the world. More Information
• APA PsycNet
  The American Psychological Association's full-text database, which includes PsycInfo (indexes scholarly journals, books, reviews, and dissertations), PsycArticles (full-text of APA journals), PsycBooks (full-text of APA books and The Encyclopedia of Psychology), PsycExtra (grey literature) and PsycCritiques (book and film reviews).
  
• Current Contents
  Lists tables of contents for thousands of journals with bibliographic data for each article. Abstracts are also available. Searchable by journal title, article title, authors, keywords, and corporate source.
• Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
  This free resource indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Coverage dates back to the mid-1960s
• Library Literature
  Beginning with 1980, this index includes records for selected library journals, books (more than 600 a year), conference proceedings, library school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews. Covering the full range of librarianship and information science, example subjects are education for librarianship, school libraries and media centers, information literacy, use of the internet, children's literature collections and reference sources and more. Both English and non-English records are provided and the index covers more than 360 sources.
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
  LLBA indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, technical reports and conference papers on all aspects of theoretical and applied linguistic research in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Coverage includes psycholinguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, interpersonal communication, hearing and speech physiology, psychopathology, nonverbal communication, psychometrics, child language acquisition, computational and mathematical linguistics, language therapy, dialectology, artificial intelligence, bilingualism and other related areas. Coverage begins with 1973 and includes materials from all countries and in all languages of the world (but with limited coverage of dissertations).
• 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.
• PAIS International
  Published by OCLC Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), this database indexes materials covering global public policy and social issues. It provides selective bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries. This database is especially valuable for education policy matters, covering the range from federal-state relations and education finance to innovations and reforms. PAIS International includes records from the print PAIS Bulletin (1977-) and from the PAIS print Foreign Language Index published 1972-1990, at which time it merged with the PAIS Bulletin. The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976.
• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  Covers the dissertations accepted at accredited institutions in the U.S. since 1861. Author- provided abstracts are included since 1980 for Ph.D. dissertations and for masters theses since 1988. University of Chicago has full-text access to dissertations included in the database since 1997.
• Social Services Abstracts
  Social Services Abstracts, since 1980, provides bibliographic coverage of research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serial publications and includes citations to dissertations and book reviews.
• Social Work Abstracts
  Social Work Abstracts, produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), contains information on the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present. The database provides coverage of more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems.
• Sociological Abstracts
  Provides access to research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It includes citations since 1963 (and abstracts since 1974) for articles in over 1,500 journals. Draws information from an international selection of journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations. Tthere are some links to full-text available in other databases to which the Library subscribes.
• SPORTDiscus
  The SPORTDiscus database provides bibliographic citations to research literature from around the world for sport, physical fitness and physical education topics. It offers bibliographic coverage of literature discussing sport, sports medicine, biomechanics, psychology,training, coaching, and other related topics. Citations to theses and monographs date back to 1949, and journal coverage back to 1975. The database producer, SIRC, is the Sport Information Resource Centre of Canada, and many countries contribute to the central SportDiscus database as "indexing partners." While SportDiscus is primarily an indexing database, there is some full-text available.
• UNESBIB | UNESDOC Freely Available
  These databases are made freely available by UNESCO.    UNESDOC includes the full texts of official UNESCO documents (about 20,000). Contents include speeches of Directors General since 1987, Executive Board documents since 1992, the General Conference since 1991, and Resolutions and Decisions since 1946.  UNESBIB includes citations to all documents and publications issued by UNESCO since 1972. Documents include conference papers, reports, Executive Board and General Conference documents, and speeches of the Director General. Publications include books and articles in UNESCO periodicals. Both databases utilize the controlled vocabularly of the UNESCO Thesaurus for indexing.  It is trilingual (English, French and Spanish) and synonyms are listed for the English terms. The most recent print edition of the UNESCO Thesaurus is 1995 and the Library has a copy: Reading Rm, floor 1 Regenstein fZ695.U35 1995. The first edition, 1977, is 2 volumes and locates in Regenstein bookstacks: fZ695.U35 1977. The UNESCO Information Service provides access to many additional databases; additional information is available.
• Web of Science
  The Web of Science, now one component of the ISI Web of Knowledge, is a unique citation database that indexes thousands of research journals in many languages. It corresponds to the print indexes Science Citation Index Expanded (1945--), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956--), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975--). The Web of Science is most useful when you have identified a key author or paper and wish to trace who has since cited the work in the scholarly journal literature, or when you wish to trace the articles that your key author cited in his or her footnotes.