How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus
UCF
Library Homepage provides links to the UCF library catalog and
gateway to various resources for Education
and other subjects, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/
EBSCOhost databases:
ERIC is a guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). The ERIC database is also available at http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/. The ERIC/AE Test Locator is available at http://www.ericae.net/testcol.htm. The ERIC Thesaurus is available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, as well as at http://ericae.net/scripts/ewiz/amain2.asp. Selected full text (1996+) is available through the UCF Library's subscription to EDRS http://www.edrs.com/Webstore/Search.cfm
Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full text journals especially for professional educators, from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Middle Search Plus provides full text for over 145 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and jr. high school students. Primary Search provides full text for 57 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
Education Abstracts (FirstSearch database) indexes English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more. Dates of electronic coverage: 1983+ The UCF Library has the print version, Education Index, at Index L11.E39 from 1929+
PsycINFO (WebLUIS database) - from the American Psychological Association - indexed materials are selected from more than 1,300 journals published in 50 countries and 28 languages. Most records have abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1887+
Web of Science - ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts when available in the science and social sciences source material, and cited references from the world's most influential journals. Dates of coverage: 1965+
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch database) covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Dates of coverage: 1861+
LexisNexis databases: Congressional (CIS) gives researchers access to vast and varied information published by and about Congress, including full text of almost all Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988 forward, and indexing & abstracting from the CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress from 1970 forward. Statistical (CIS) provides the full text of Statistical Abstract of the U. S., plus indexing and abstracts (with some full text available) from American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS). Academic (CIS/Lexis-Nexis) provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18,300 sources, including access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Their files are updated with full-text documents from general interest wire services, newspapers, and magazines from around the world.
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Ask A Librarian provides links to useful Internet sites,
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Other Useful Web Sites:
UCF
Curriculum Materials Center
http://www.lib.ucf.edu/CMC/
UCF
College of Education Library Tutorial
http://reach.ucf.edu/~libedu1/main.html
User
Guides for Education Classes
http://www.lib.ucf.edu/Instruct/Education/UserGuides.htm
Florida Department of Education
http://www.firn.edu/doe/doehome.htm
U.S.
Department of Education - Publications and National
Library of Education
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/index.html
and
http://www.ed.gov/NLE/
Buros
Institute - publishers of the Mental Measurements Yearbook
and Tests in Print
http://www.unl.edu/buros/
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(407) 823-2563
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