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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Education:
Digital Education Collections
An "Electronic Scholar" can consult these digital resources and prepare the way for topical
research. Visiting libraries virtually prepares for onsite work as well. Working remotely, a
scholar can tour many databases and full text collections in education. The selected resources
are arranged alphabetically in the following categories [click to go to the section.]
National and Multi-Library Catalogs
- Library of Congress: American Memory
- This site provides you with holographs of important documents and art pieces. Samples of current American Memory exhibits are featured.
- URL: http://memory.loc.gov/
- Links to Online Libraries
- URL: http://www.libraryspot.com/
- NLE National Library of Education
- This is your "one-stop" center for education information. You will find direct connections to major education societies, ERIC services, related sites, and search engines.
- URL: http://www.ed.gov/NLE
- United States Libraries Online
- Use this link to locate libraries across the United States.
- URL: http://library.usask.ca/hywebcat/
Selected Online Libraries - Education
- Children's Books Online: The Rosetta project: antique books online
- URL: http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/index.htm
- Consortium of University Research Libraries (Great Britain)
- URL: http://www.curl.ac.uk/
- Electronic Journal Search
- URL: http://blpc.bl.uk/
- Electronic Journal Search
- URL: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/ejourn/
- Infomine (University of California)
- URL: http://lib-www.ucr.edu/
- Internet Public Library
- URL: http://www.ipl.org
- Internet Public Library (IPL) Reference Page
- URL: http://www.ipl.org/ref/
- Librarian's Index to the Internet: Education
- URL: http://lii.org/search/file/education/
- The U.S. Library of Congress
- URL: http://www.loc.gov/
- U.S. Library of Congress: American Memory
- This site provides you with holographs of important documents and art pieces. Samples of current American Memory exhibits are featured.
- URL: http://memory.loc.gov/
- WWW Virtual Library
- URL: http://www.vlib.org
WWW Digital Services
- Ask An Expert: There are questions that only an expert can answer
- This site is a human-mediated Q & A service at New Jersey Institute of Technology, funded by the U.S. government.
- URL: http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html
e-Text Collections relevant to Education
Topical indexes and databases abound at colleges and universities.
E-Text collections are included in this section, since such resources tend to focus on
construction of databases on specific resources. If discovered resources are considered
useful and well constructed, they will be added to this page.
General Education
- Education Book Reviews
- Use this site to locate reviews of recently published books in education.
- URL: http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/reviews/
- Educator's Reference Desk
- Formerly AskERIC, this site can be used to search many education topics.
Counseling, Educational Levels, Educational Management, Educational Technology, Evaluation,
Family Life, General Education, Librarianship, Reference, Specific Populations,
Subjects and Teaching are the top menu topics; further subtopics are grouped under these.
- URL: http://www.eduref.org/
Administration
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Washington, DC
- Hosts some of the materials of the closed Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education
Center on Education and Training for Employment, Ohio State University
is now the home for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education. The publications and collections of links are now archived at host organizations, the Texas Center for Adult Literacy and Learning at Texas A&M University and the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project.
Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management (CEPM), at the University of Oregon
houses the former Clearinghouse on Educational Management.
CEPM provides access to the resources once provided by the ERIC Clearinghouses,
and adds new materials, such as Research Roundups.
- URL: http://cepm.uoregon.edu/
- Grants and Related Resources
- An index from Michigan State University which points towards specific foundations, resource books, and other Web links.
- URL: http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/index.htm
- Institute for Urban and Minority Education Columbia University
- Now holds many of the resources held in the closed Clearinghouse on Urban Education. Included in the new site are Supplementary Education or After School Programs in Manhattan. URL: http://iume.tc.columbia.edu/
Adjunct Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education
All present and upcoming resources and publications will continue to be made available
free to the public on the CELCEE website.
- URL: http://www.celcee.edu/
Educational Psychology
- Center of Creative Studies University of Buffalo
- A database of article citations on creativity.
- URL: http://www.buffalostate.edu/orgs/cbir/
- Counseling Outfitters
- Continues the ERIC/CASS tradition of services and products of the Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services.
- URL: http://www.counselingoutfitters.com/
- Classics in the History of Psychology
- URL: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/
- Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education resources
- areavailable, however, numerous links are broken.
Still intact are links to ERIC Digests on topics of interest. The topics are
pertinent to persons of all ages who have disabilities or are gifted.
The National Center for Gifted education has downloadable resources for research, professional development, and parent-teacher conferences. URL: http://ericec.org/
- Practical Assessment Research and Evaluation (PARE)
- now houses the materials from the Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation. Other resources from the Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation are available:
- Buros Mental Measurements Institute Test Reviews Online
- (Replaced Test Locator.)
Citations free, test review for a fee,
and
ETS Test Collection database.
"The collection is the largest in the world.
It was established to make information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers. The tests contained in this collection were acquired from a variety of U.S. publishers and individual test authors. Foreign tests are also included in the collection, including some from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. In order to search the Test Collection Database, you will need Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 or higher or Netscape version 6.0 or higher with the exception of Netscape version 7.0."[from ETS database).
- Psych Web
URL: http://www.psywww.com/index.html
Teaching and Learning
- Center for Applied Linguistics
- Has many of the resources that were in the closed ERIC
Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.
- URL: http://www.cal.org/resources/update.html
- Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative (ECAP)
- Houses the resources once held by The Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood
Education located at the University of Illinois. The site provides information on
education of children from birth through early adolescence.
- URL: http://ecap.crc.uiuc.edu/info
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC) contract with the Office of
Special Education Programs, ED. Contact: NECTAC, Campus Box 8040, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8040,
Phone: 919-962-2001, TDD: 919-843-3269, Email: nectac@unc.edu
- Family Learning Association
- Lessons plans, Ask-an-Expert, Parent's links are provided free, as is an online(fee) bookstore. The site links to resources from:
- National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE)
- At host organization
(Center for Applied Linguistics) as long as they are relevant.
- URL: http://www.cal.org/
- Social Studies Development Center Indiana
- Holds some of the resources from the closed Social Studies/Social Science Education.
The site has: SSDC Digests, Links to Other Internet Social Studies Resources the Social
Studies Resource Organizations Directory, FAQs for Teachers and numerous Social Studies
Standards and Curriculum Frameworks.
- URL: http://www.indiana.edu/%7Essdc/ssdc.htm
- University of Virginia Electronic Texts
- URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/
Dissertation Collection Sites NEW!
A thorough listing of
dissertation sites
by discipline.
Prepared by Sterphanie Bartz, the listing includes both Rutgers and Non-Rutgers
sites. Also available are ways to find specific dissertations within Rutgers
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