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Education: Education Databases

Resources on the Education Industry including K-12 and Secondary Education.

Best Resources for Education

Chronicle of Higher Education (Digital Edition)

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  • Online edition of the U.S.'s major news source for higher education
  • Text of all news articles and essays from weekly print issues since September 1989
  • Daily website-only updates and new-media extras such as slide shows, podcosts, and videos published since  May 1998

Education Abstracts

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  • Bibliographic database that cites from more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published worldwide
  • Covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college
  • Abstracts of selected series, supplements and citations for book reviews

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)

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  • Over 1.1 million education-related citations going back to 1966
  • More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004)
  • Links and citations of articles and reports written since 2004

21st Century Education

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  • This 2009 edition covers current issues relating to students, teachers, staff and curriculm in the U.S.

Additional Education Resources

Education Research Guide from U-M Library

  • Thorough resource for people looking for information on education for all ages and subject areas from early childhood through higher education and adult lifelong learning. Major topics include:

    • Databases that help you discover education-related articles by subject
    • Books - our online catalog and other resources to find books on various education topics
    • Statistics - education statistics from a variety of sources
    • Reference Sources - online and paper education encyclopedias, handbooks, compendia, etc.
    • Useful Library Services - services to help integrate media into assignments and presentations, help with data, publishing, etc.
    • Web Resources - a group of influential and useful web resources

Google Scholar Search

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