Education

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Education Research Complete
This resource is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
An index to thousands of education-related journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, standards, and guidelines. EBSCO's ERIC database includes the full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information. All ERIC citations with an ERIC number that begins with the letters "ED" (for ERIC document) are available on microfiche in the Weatherford library.

Professional Development Collection - see Education Research Complete above

The content of the Professional Development Collection is contained within Education Research Complete.

KCDLonline (Kraus Curriculum Development Library)
KCDLonline provides educators, curriculum developers, and other researchers with easy access to the resources they need to implement educational strategies and objectives, and improve learning in PreK-12 schooling. Its fully searchable database brings together in one place:
 - Curricula, frameworks, and standards from all across the English-speaking world
 - Lessons and learning activities
 - Educational objectives
 - Educational content
 - Instructional strategies
 - Evaluative techniques
You can search KCDLonline for specific curricula by subject, keywords, forms of educational content, grades covered, and geographic locale. You may also download PDF files of the curriculum documents that appear in the current edition.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, includes consumer-oriented test reviews. The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

SPORTDiscus (EBSCOhost)  
SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.

  • Maximum number of simultaneous users: 1
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
The ERIC database is currently undergoing a restructuring and redesign. The database currently covers 1996-2003. Citations for 2004 will be added in December, 2004. AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents.

  • Access restrictions: None

Cabell's Directories
4/9/08: Cabell's Directories is temporarily unavailable while Cabell Pub. redesigns their site. Cabell expects access to be restored in mid-April.
The resource provides information about the characteristics, requirements, and procedures of refreed journals for potential authors. Topics include readership, fees charged authors, lengths of manuscripts accepted, review procedures, etc. A table of contents lists journals alphabetically, a subject index classifies them according to topic.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

Education Resources on the Internet
A directory of useful education-related Internet sites.