Education Reference Ebooks

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

Encyclopedia of EducationInternational Encyclopedia of Marriage and FamilyEncyclopedia 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 - funded by the New Jersey State library, it provides full-text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Contemporary Authors - provides access to current biographical and bibliographical data on modern authors.

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.

Dissertations & Theses @ Caldwell College - a digital library of master's theses written by Caldwell College students.

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 provides users with critical evaluations for over 2,000 commercial tests within a wide variety of areas that include education, psychology, business, aptitude, achievement, and intelligence. Written by leading experts in the field, this series supports the informed selection and use of commercial testing products. Typical MMY entries include descriptive information about the test, professional reviews, and reviewer references. To be included in this series, a test must be commercially available in English. Full text of test reviews is included in the database.

Omni Full-Text - a cross-disciplinary database which combines and searches Education Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Business Abstracts, and Social Science Abstracts. Contains the full text for some articles.

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

ProQuest 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.

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.

** DATABASE TRIAL** Research Starters - Education – provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.

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.

Tests in Print (TIP) - serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Tests in Print also guides readers to critical, candid test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series