Ready
Reference Sources
- Bilingual Education:
A Reference Handbook (LC 3731 F45 2002 Ref).
- Education at
a Glance: OECD Indicators (LB 2846 E247)
- Education Statistics
of the United States (LA 201 E38 2001 Ref).
- Encyclopedia
of American Education (LB
17 U54 2001 Ref).
- Encyclopedia
of Children and Childhood : in history and society.
(HQ767.84 .E53 2003
Ref); also available online.
- Encyclopedia
of Education (LB 15 E47 Ref).
- Encyclopedia
of Educational Research (LB 15 E48 1982 Ref).
- Encyclopedia
of Learning Disabilities
(LC 4704.5 T86 2002 Ref).
- Encyclopedia
of Special Education (LC 4007 E53 2000 Ref).
- ERIC/AE
Test Locator. A good place to identify survey instruments for
research.
- International
Handbook of Early Childhood Education (LB 1139.23 I68 1992 Ref).
- Multicultural
Education in the U.S. (LC 1099.3 M59 2000 Ref).
- National
Center for Education Statistics. Provides access to major statistical
reports on the state of education in the United States.
- UNESCO
Education Information Service. Includes recent issues of the
publication, Statistics on Education.
- UNESCO
Statistical Yearbook. Selected statistics are available for
downloading. The library acquires the most recent printed version (AZ
361 U45 Ref).
- U.S.
Census Bureau Education Data.
- U.S.
Department of Education: topics from A to Z. Major access point
to the Department's services and documents. The full text of the most
recent publications, Condition of Education and Digest of
Education Statistics can be found here.
Searching
for Books
You can look for books
by searching the Five College
Online Library Catalog by author, title or subject. The following
are examples of subject headings that might be useful: "Education--Elementary,"
"Cognitive Styles," "Education Equalization--United States,"
and "Language Experience Approach in Education" (the subject term
for whole language materials!) You may also find it helpful to browse
the call numbers L thru LT in the main stacks for primary
and secondary sources on education.
Bibliographies
and Indexes
- Child Development
Abstracts and Bibliography. Available in print format from 1927
in the Reference Room, call number: HQ 750 A1 C47 REF.
-
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)(1966
- present)
National index to materials in the field of education, sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Education. Contains over 700,000 citations covering
research documents, journal articles, technical reports, curricular
materials, etc. Records marked "EJ" are citations to journal
articles; "ED" are "ERIC Documents," texts which
are available through three major avenues: 1) The fulltext of "ED"
documents from 1993-present are now available online and are directly
linked from ERIC; 2) For "ED"
documents prior to 1993, UMass Amherst has most of these on microfiche--the
UMass librarians encourage you to ask for help on your first visit.
3) If you are not in a hurry, or can't get to UMass, you may also submit
an interlibrary
loan request for ERIC documents that are not available
online, just be sure to include the "ED #" somewhere in your
request. Journals
Indexed.
- Education
Index (1983 - present)
Citation index for
periodical literature and yearbooks, covering every age and sector of
the educational community from preschool through college. Indexes over
400 periodicals beginning 1994. Updated monthly. Print volumes preceding
this electronic resource from 1929-1984 may be found in the Williston
stacks, call number: LB 5 .E4.
- Family
Index (1995 - present)
Interdisciplinary
index for periodical articles covering a wide range of topics in family
studies; includes over 2000 journal titles. This database is preceded
by the Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature which is available
in print format only from 1973 to 1994 in the Main Reference Room, call
number: HQ 728 A482 REF. Updated monthly.
- PsycInfo
(1872 - present)
This bibliographic database covers the professional and academic literature
in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage is worldwide, and includes
references and abstracts to over 1,800 journals, and dissertations in
more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English
language. Linked from PsycINFO is access to PsycARTICLES,
an ejournal collection that contains recent issues of the 40 journals
published by the American Psychological Association, along with 3 journals
published by the Canadian Psychological Association and 6 journals published
by Hogrefe and Huber.
Updated monthly. The PsycINFO index also exists in print format under
the title Psychological Abstracts from 1927- 1969 and can be
found in the Science Periodicals.. Journals
Indexed.
E-Journals
Organizations
Selected
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