CI 5327: Principles and Practices in Elementary Education - Darden: Research Databases

Multi-subject. Animal science, anthropology, archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, history, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women’s studies, & zoology.

Multi-subject resources from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities & other scholarly organizations

Multi-Subject

An online database provider. Use the "Select Multiple Databases" link to search databases simultaneously.

In-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, economy, and global affairs. Reports include an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Online version of Gale's Encyclopedia of Associations. List of national organizations described briefly, with names, addresses, and telephone numbers.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) provides annotations, professional reviews, curriculum tools, awards, honors, prizes (725+) and reading lists for millions of Children's & Young Adult titles. CLCD contains 550,000+ critical reviews, ranging from children’s board books to young adult fiction and nonfiction. 3000+ new reviews are added to the database monthly. Subscribers can search by keyword, author, title and subject; filter by reading level, age, grade, interest level and many other facets.

Education, educational administration, community development; counseling and guidance programs; curriculum development; educational facilities, parent-school communications; performance and program evaluation; school choice; staff development; target programs for high-risk and special-needs students; and vocational education.

Scholarly research in education & education-related social issues. All levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, & testing.

Education journals & documents (research reports, evaluation studies, curriculum guides & lesson plans collected by the U.S. Dept. of Education).

Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics.

List of links to education related databases

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) provides annotations, professional reviews, curriculum tools, awards, honors, prizes (725+) and reading lists for millions of Children's & Young Adult titles. CLCD contains 550,000+ critical reviews, ranging from children’s board books to young adult fiction and nonfiction. 3000+ new reviews are added to the database monthly. Subscribers can search by keyword, author, title and subject; filter by reading level, age, grade and interest level.

Bibliographic information for over 25,000 records of picture storybooks, beginning readers, and graphic formats. Find books by artistic media and style, character traits, literary devices, literacy tie-ins, genres, narrative formats, series, and characters, country of origin, and age ranges.

A collection best for students in kindergarten to grade five, and includes over 300 books: 150+ animated talking picture books, 93 language learning books, 25 Read-Alongs, 22 non fiction books and over 50 National Geographic Videos, as well as dozens of educational games and puzzles. These videos are paired with books as part ofcontinued efforts to provide our subscribers with Core Curriculum Standards content. You can see all the paired videos by going to the Search box and using the drop down to choose "Books With Videos". NOT APPROPRIATE FOR COLLEGE LEVEL RESEARCH.

Interactive database of statistics that enables users to create tables, maps, and figures from a variety data sources covering banking, criminal justice, education, energy, food and agriculture, government, health, housing and construction, industry and commerce, labor and employment, natural resources and environment, income, cost of living, stocks, transportation, and more. Data holdings for the United States are significant with some data available at state, county, or local geographies. International data, available at the country level, include population, food and agriculture, labor, trade, and more. Data are organized by subject and source.

Federal government data on numerous topics including geography, environment, education, transportation, population, national security, agriculture, energy, and more. Provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.

Part of the Web of Knowledge, the Data Citation Index fully indexes a significant number of the world's leading data repositories of critical interest to the scientific community, including over two million data studies and datasets.

Annual analysis of scholarly journals in sciences, social sciences & humanities. Objectively determines the relative importance of journals within their subject categories. Information for each title includes the "impact factor" (measurement of the frequency with which the average article has been cited in a particular year) and the "immediacy index" (how quickly the average article in a journal is cited).

Directory of over 250,000 U.S. and international periodicals. No articles, just information about journals. Useful for purchasing periodicals, where periodicals are indexed, & periodical type (such as scholarly, newsletter, newspaper, etc.).

Directory of U.S. and international periodicals. No articles, just information about journals. Useful for purchasing periodicals, where periodicals are indexed, & periodical type (such as scholarly, newsletter, newspaper, etc.).

Research platform for information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Annual analysis of scholarly journals in sciences, social sciences & humanities. Objectively determines the relative importance of journals within their subject categories. Information for each title includes the "impact factor" (measurement of the frequency with which the average article has been cited in a particular year) and the "immediacy index" (how quickly the average article in a journal is cited).

EndNote is an online tool that allows you to create your own personal account and store an unlimited number of citations you retrieve when doing your research. Later, when you are writing your paper, you can use EndNote to insert citations where you need them. EndNote can then create and automatically format your bibliography in the bibliographic style you need.