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Child Development &
Adolescent Studies
1927 - present
A source for
references to current
and historical
literature related to
growth and development
of children through the
age of 21. This
database includes book
reviews, journal article
abstracts, and an
extensive bibliography
of technical reports,
books, theses, and
dissertations. It
provides references to
the literature indexed
in Child Development
Abstracts & Bibliography,
1927-2001. |
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Chronicle of Higher
Education
1989 - present
Popular news source for
college and university
faculty members and
administrators. |
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CQ Researcher
1991 - present
The Congressional
Quarterly Researcher
explores a single issue
in the news in depth
each week. Topics range
from social and teen
issues to environment,
health, education and
science and technology. |
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Education Full Text (H.
W. Wilson)
Education Full Text, a
WilsonWeb database,
provides comprehensive
coverage of an
international range of
English-language
periodicals, monographs,
and yearbooks. Indexing
of periodicals goes as
far back as 1983. Full
text of articles from
journals dates from
1996. The database
covers a broad range of
educational specialties.
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Educator's Reference
Desk
1966 - present
Formerly AskERIC.
Contains citations and
abstracts to journal and
report literature in
education and related
fields. |
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ERIC
1966 - present
On October 1, 2004, the
Educational Resources
Information Center
(ERIC) introduced
full-text access to
content through a new
free interface. Content
includes curriculum
guides, abstracts,
instructional materials,
research reports,
bibliographies, and test
and measurement
instruments. Included in
these materials are more
than 107,000 documents
that were added to the
ERIC database during the
period January 1993 -
July 2004. Previously,
these materials were
only available through a
paid subscription to the
ERIC Document
Reproduction Service (EDRS),
a service that is no
longer available.
Similarly, the AskERIC
service is now defunct.
If full-text cannot be
found within the new
ERIC database, other
options include checking
Squires Library's print
and microfiche holdings
as well as interlibrary
loan. |
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LearningExpress Library
This resource contains
practice tests and
interactive tutorials
for various academic and
professional
standardized tests. The
tutorials and practice
tests offer immediate
scoring, answer
explanations, and
individual analysis of
test results.
Included are:
- courses and
practice tests in
math, reading, and
writing for adults,
as well as
elementary and high
school students,
- practice tests
for: GED, ACT, SAT,
advanced placement,
GRE, GMAT, LSAT,
MCAT, TOEFL, and
U.S. citizenship,
- practice
certification tests
for: civil service,
teacher praxis, real
estate, and EMS,
- e-books for
skill building and
career
development.
To use
LearningExpress
Library tools, you
must first set up
your own individual
account. On their
welcome page, click
the "New User"
button. Enter a
username and
password that are
easy for you to
remember, because if
you forget your
password there will
be no way to
retrieve your
password.
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Mental Measurements
Yearbook (MMY)
Produced by the Buros
Institute at the
University of Nebraska,
MMY provides users with
a guide to over 2,000
commercially-available
test products in the
areas of psychology,
education, business, and
leadership. Entries
contain descriptive
information such as test
purpose, publisher, and
pricing, as well as
reviews written by
content area experts. |
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Professional Collection
Full-text periodicals
for teachers and school
administrators. |
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Teacher Reference Center
(TRC)
This database provides
indexing and abstracts
for over 280 of the most
popular K-12 teacher and
administrator trade
journals. |
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Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros
Institute of Mental
Measurements at the
University of Nebraska,
Tests in Print (TIP)
serves as a
comprehensive
bibliography to
commercially available
tests that are currently
in print in the English
language. TIP provides
the following
information: test
purpose, test publisher,
in-print status, price,
test acronym, intended
test population,
administration times,
publication date(s), and
test author(s). A score
index permits users to
identify what is being
measured by each test.
Tests in Print also
guides readers to
reviews published in
Mental Measurements
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Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile
provides access to
peer-reviewed, full-text
articles from journals
and reference sources.
It also offers full text
of the New York Times
from 1995 to the
present and includes
transcripts and audio
files from National
Public Radio (NPR). |
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Academic Search Premier
(ASP)
1965 - present
The world’s largest
academic
multi-disciplinary
database, Academic
Search Premier
provides full text for
nearly 4,700
publications, including
full text for more than
3,600 peer-reviewed
journals. PDF back-files
to 1975 or further are
available for well over
one hundred journals,
and searchable cited
references are provided
for more than 1,000
titles. |
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America's Newspapers
(Newsbank)
A database of the
complete electronic
editions of more than
750 U.S. newspapers,
including major
newspapers such as
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
and regional newspapers
such as The Knoxville
News-Sentinel and
The Tennessean.
Paid advertisements
are excluded. |
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Children's Catalog (H.
W. Wilson)
Children's Catalog is a
selective annotated list
of fiction and
nonfiction books and
magazines for children
from preschool through
sixth grade. Included in
the database are review
sources, recommended web
resources for children
and professionals, and
other collection
development and
curriculum support aids. |
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Custom
Newspapers (InfoTrac)
A collection of more
than 650 national and
international
newspapers. Includes the
Chattanooga
Times/Free Press. |
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Digital Library of
Appalachia
The Digital Library of
Appalachia provides
online access to
archival and historical
materials related to the
culture of the southern
and central Appalachian
region. The database
includes reproductions
of photographs, typed
pages, books,
manuscripts, diaries and
correspondence, journal
and newspaper articles,
musical recordings, and
oral history recordings
and transcripts. The
online collection is
compiled by libraries,
archives, and museums
associated with the
Appalachian College
Association. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP
1980 - present
Coverage in the social
sciences, humanities,
sciences, and
technology, national
news, and general
interest, with a
concentration on
scholarly journals. |
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General OneFile
General OneFile is a
source for news and
periodical articles
covering a wide range of
topics. It includes
full-text articles,
along with some images
and NPR transcripts and
audio files. Updated
daily. |
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JSTOR
1800 to 3 years
before present date
A digital archive
collection of scholarly
journals starting with
the first issues (many
of which date from the
1800s).
NOTE: the
Adobe Acrobat Reader
is required to print
articles. |
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Library, Information
Science & Technology
Abstracts (LISTA)
mid-1960s - present
This database indexes
periodicals, books,
research reports and
proceedings in the
following subject areas:
librarianship,
information management,
classification,
cataloging,
bibliometrics, online
information retrieval,
and more. Full-text
articles are included. |
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Points of View Reference
Center
A full-text database of
essays that present
multiple sides of a
current issue. For each
topic there is an
overview along with
positive arguments
(point) and opposing
arguments
(counterpoint). Source
materials include
essays, political
magazines, newspapers,
news transcripts,
primary source
documents, and reference
books. This database
also offers guides to
developing arguments and
writing position papers. |
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Project Muse
The full text from over
100 scholarly journals
in arts and humanities,
the social sciences, and
mathematics. |
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PsycARTICLES
1998 - present
Covers general
psychology and
specialized basic,
applied, clinical, and
theoretical research in
psychology. Over 25,000
full-text articles are
available from 42
journals published by
American Psychological
Association, Canadian
Psychological
Association, and Hogrefe
& Huber. The APA
journals offer full-text
articles from 1988 to
the present with earlier
years currently in
production. |
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PsycINFO
1800s - present
Citations and abstracts
of journal articles and
book chapters in
psychology and related
fields. |
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