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Education Reference Ebooks

Search the Gale Virtual Reference Library Education Ebook collection or select an individual title below.

Encyclopedia of Education Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and SocietyEncyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 2nd Ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Encyclopedia of Education Law

Education Databases

Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Common Core State Standards Initiative - The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). New Jersey is one of 44 states, Washington, DC and the U.S. Virgin Islands to join the state-led Common Core State Standards initiative.

Core Curriculum Standards (New Jersey) - The New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards include Preschool Teaching and Learning Standards as well as K-12 standards.

Curriculum Resource Center - Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle school, high school, and junior college curriculum.

Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition - Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material and other content geared for elementary-level students.

Discovering Collection - a comprehensive reference database for the study of literature, history, science, biography and social sciences.

Dissertations & Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection - A comprehensive collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, this database covers more than 1 million dissertations and theses.

Education Journals - Indexing for over 820 periodical titles in education, including over 630 scholarly journals, 120 trade publications, and over 50 magazines. Citations and abstracts are available back to 1971 for several titles, and full-text access is available for over 650 titles, with current full-text content provided for over 460 of these. Covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics

ERIC - a database from the Educational Resources Information Center. Consists of the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 980 professional journals. Includes abstracts for all citations and links to full-text when available. Jennings Library owns ERIC microfiche from 1989 to 1998 (Eric document numbers ED338115 to ED448262). Please ask a Librarian if you need to access ERIC documents in microfiche.

Lexis-Nexis Academic - provides access to a wide range of news from English and non-English sources, business, legal, and medical information. Search all of Lexis-Nexis Academic or use the following links to search for Education Law information:

Search Education Case Law:

Federal and State Education Law Cases       
Federal Education Law Cases      
State Education Law Cases

Search Education Law Reviews and Newsletters:

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal
Journal of Law and Education
Special Education Law Monthly
School Law Bulletin
School Law Newsletters
Special Education Law Monthly

Search Education News Sources

The New York Times - Education Law Stories

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (TIP) - Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present. MMY via EBSCOhost® now includes the MMY Archive providing all yearbooks from the first edition in 1938, through the 18th yearbook released in 2010 raising the total number of full-text reviews available on the product to over 7,000.

Professional Development Collection is designed for professional educators, providing a highly specialized collection of 520 education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full-text coverage, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. Funded by the New Jersey State Library.

Proquest Research Library Journals - a general interest database covering popular to scholarly journals. Contains the full text for some of the articles.

PsycARTICLES - includes more than 34,000 full-text articles from 43 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.

PsycINFO - covers psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines. Contains citations and abstracts for journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations, and reports and links to full-text when available.

SIRS - SIRS Government Reporter contains current and historic government documents, directories and almanacs. SIRS Renaissance contains current perspectives on the arts and humanities. SIRS Researcher contains selected articles from popular journals and newspapers regarding current social issues, health, science, and business.

Social Science Journals - full-text periodicals covering the social sciences. Education Journals contains leading journals in education and related fields with full-text articles. Criminal Justice Periodical Index contains abstracts and some full text of articles from criminal justice literature. Psychology Journals provides full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications for both students and mental-health professionals. In ProQuest Social Science Journals, use the databases selected link to search any combination of the databases in this collection.