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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 Education and other resources, such as:

• American Periodicals Index 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) and some of the full text is now available online in the database American Periodicals Series Online. The electronic index is incomplete but growing.  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). Poole's Index... was followed by International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965), Social Sciences & Humanities Index (1965-1974), Social Sciences Index (1974- ), and Humanities Index (1974- ). The last two indexes are available electronically as Wilson databases: Social Sciences Full Text (1984- ) and Humanities Full Text (1984- ).
• Biography Resource Center (GaleNet database) provides information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. See also: Biography & Genealogy Master Index, 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.
• Citation Management Options help researchers: * Collect citations from online sources; * Organize references by subject, project, author, or other schemes; * Create bibliographies formatted according to MLA, APA, or other widely used citation styles.
• Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest 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+
• EBSCOhost databases:  Academic Search Premier is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,043 journals in the collection. Dates of coverage: 1975+  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. Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 90 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and jr. high school students. Primary Search provides full text for nearly 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
• Education Full Text (Wilson 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: 1984+  The UCF Library has the print version, Education Index, at Index L11.E39 from 1929+
• Education in SAGE Full-Text Collections provides full text of 19 education journals. Dates of coverage: 1968+
• Educational Research Abstracts (Taylor & Francis database) provides selected indexing of over 700 journals. Abstracts are selected for their relevance to international educational research, educational technology, multicultural education, higher education, organisation and management, sociology of education, special needs and technical education and training.
• ERIC (EBSCOhost 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://www.eric.ed.gov/.
• ERIC Thesaurus - Use the Look Up feature on the Search Wizard to see a list of education descriptors used in ERIC citations. The Thesaurus offers term definitions and arrays of related terms to help the searcher to pinpoint the desired concept.
• JSTOR provides full text, page image from over 300 scholarly journals, including approximately 30 education journals, such as: Journal of Educational Sociology / Sociology of Education (1927-2002), Journal of Higher Education (1930-2001), Journal of Negro Education (1932-2001), School Review/American Journal of Education (1893-2001), Child Development (1930-1999), and Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (1936-1999).
• 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 (1997+), and Reading & Writing (1997+). Partial list of journals
• LexisNexis databases (CIS/Lexis-Nexis): Congressional 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 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 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.
• netLibrary provides over 30,000 full text ebooks for previewing or 2-hour checkout.
• PsycINFO (EBSCOhost 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+  See also PsycARTICLES.
• 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+
• 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+

• Research Guides for Education

• 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

• U.S. Department of Education- Teachers  and National Library of Education

• National Center for Education Statistics

• Educator's Reference Desk (Information Institute of Syracuse)

• Buros Institute - publishers of the Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print. See also ETS Test Collection

• Recommended Resources in Education - by discipline (Florida Gulf Coast University) and APA Citation Style

• Title List for ProQuest Education Journals - database is available at FGCU. Another database available at FGCU is KCDL Online.

• Course Syllabus (EDG7356) - Dr. Cynthia J.Hutchinson's class section

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