EDG 6253 Resources
Curriculum Inquiry

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

General Internet Information

UCF Library Homepage provides links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/

• Academic Index (WebLUIS database) indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some articles. Provides access to ASCII full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+ 
  Another version of this database, Expanded Academic ASAP (1980+ ) available through InfoTrac, allows you to limit your search to refereed journals and this version is updated daily and may have entries and full text that is somewhat more current; some articles have charts and illustrations not included in the WebLUIS version.
  
• Biography & Genealogy Master Index (GaleNet database) is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
  
• 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+
  
• Early American Periodicals covers all known periodical publications that had their inception and ending from 1741 to 1935. The full text of the actual periodicals are in the UCF Library in three microfilm collections (often referred to as APS I, APS II and APS III). The electronic index is incomplete but growing.  You may find the CD-ROM version available in the Library's Electronic Reference Area easier to use. The print index provides limited subject access to the complete series and is shelved in the UCF Library's Reference Collection at REF AP2.A388. Nearly one hundred of the periodicals in the APS II & APS III collections are at least partially indexed in Poole's Index to Periodical Literature [Index AI3.P7] (1802-1906).
  
• EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite provides abstracts and indexing for approximately 3,000 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,000 journals including 380 journals dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals. The Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.
  
• 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+
  
• ERIC (WebLUIS database) 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 SearchERIC.org as well as through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.  Selected full text (1996+) is available through the UCF Library's subscription to EDRS http://www.edrs.com/Webstore/Search.cfm
  
• JSTOR provides full text, page image from over 100 scholarly journals, including 4 education journals: Journal of Educational Sociology / Sociology of Education (1927-1995), Journal of Higher Education (1930-1995), Journal of Negro Education (1932-1995), and Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (1993-1998).
  
• Kluwer Online provides full text articles from approximately 600 Kluwer journals, including Learning Environments Research (1998+), Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education (1998+), Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education (1995+), and Reading & Writing (1995+). Partial list of journals
  
• 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+
  
• Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database) is a primary resource from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Dates of electronic coverage: 1963+  The UCF Library has the print indexes at Index HM1.S67 for 1953+
  
• UnCover is a database of current article information taken from more than 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. It contains brief descriptive information about over 7,000,000 articles published since Fall 1988. The UCF Library is subsidizing document delivery service in the UnCover database for Faculty and Graduate students.
  
• Universe databases:   Congressional Universe (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 Universe (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 Universe (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.  
  
• 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: 1977+
  
• WilsonSelect (FirstSearch database) contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database includes records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1994+

• Research Sources for Education Courses
  http://library.ucf.edu/Instruct/education.htm

• Electronic Serials (UCF Curriculum Materials Center) provides a list of some education journals available electronically.

• William S. Gray Research Collection in Reading provides a retrospective compilation of reading research documents from key journals, books, research reports, and monographs published between 1884 and 1980. The full text documents are available in the UCF Library on microfiche - LB 1050.W469. An author/subject guide is available in the Reference Collection under the same call number. Author/subject index cards in the drawers preceding the microfiche documents also provide abstracts.

Other Useful Web Sites:

• 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/

• Education Resources Guide (Florida Gulf Coast University)
  http://library.fgcu.edu/Subjects/Education/educate.htm

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