LIBRARY

home > research help > education resources

ARTICLES

What is a Scholarly/Peer-reviewed/Refereed Article?

A peer reviewed journal indicates that before being accepted for publication, articles are reviewed by other experts in the field; also known as scholarly or refereed journals.

Databases

Databases can be accessed through the E-Resource List (A-Z) and are only available to current Penn State students, faculty and staff.

ERIC -- Educational Resources Information Center
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dballpsu.html#ERIC

This menu choice takes you to the following Education databases:
ERIC -- Educational Resources Information Center
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing over one million abstracts on education research and practice. ERIC covers two types of literature:

Journals (in CIJE- Current Index to Journals in Education , 1969-) Scholarly, professional and practitioner journals.

Documents (in RIE- Resources in Education , 1966-). Non-journal literature, such as full text curriculum guides, theses, conference papers, standards, reports, etc. Not peer-reviewed.

Professional Development Collection

Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators and librarians, provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, with full text dating as far back as 1965. . It also provides full text for 167 education pamphlets, a searchable images database, and will soon contain full text for scholarly monographs.

Proquest Direct

ProQuest Direct indexes 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers. It contains Full text (word file with no photos or tables) or images (looks like real paper publication) to over 2,000 journals, and Full text to 150+ newspapers.

Education Abstracts Full Text [Wilson]

Education Abstracts Full Text [Wilson] covers over 625 periodicals, with indexing from 1983, and full text for many since 1994.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO, the primary database for psychology and related disciplines, is a database of psychological literature from the 1800's to the present, from 1300 journals from 50 countries. Through SilverPlatter, it provides full text, searchable access to more than 25,000 articles from 42 journals published by APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present, and links to non-APA full text journals owned in electronic format by the University Libraries. Related subject areas included education, organizational management, psychophysiology, psychiatry, nursing, ergonomics, environmental psychology, human factors engineering, sociology, business, law and more. Published by the American Psychological Association.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL)

Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL) Online is the premier searchable database of retrospective and current collections of curriculum guides, lesson plans, frameworks, standards, and teaching practices for PreK-12, and Adult Basic Education. Information in the database covers all disciplines, subjects, and grade levels found in PreK through 12th grade education and Adult Basic Education.

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Each entry includes test author, publication information, scoring information, an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test.

top of page

News & Newspapers

Penn State Great Valley News and Newspaper Resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/greatvalley/news.htm

top of page

BOOKS

Finding Books at Penn State:

Penn State's Online Catalog (CAT)
http://cat.libraries.psu.edu/uhtbin/guestcat.exe

• Use the online catalog to find books and other material throughout the entire Penn State Library system.
• Request books not available at Great Valley by clicking on the I WANT IT button.
• For additional information on using the CAT go to the Online Catalog Help site.

TIP: How do I find appropriate subject terms?

• Type in keywords words related to your topic.
• Look for books that seem relevant, click on DETAILS, click on the MORE tab and look at the subject terms.
• Search again using these new terms in the "Topic: Title + Subject" search category.

Once you find a book you want, you can order the item through the Penn State Interlibrary Loan Department.

For more information on Interlibrary Loans (ILLiad) go to
https://ill.libraries.psu.edu/

Books Not at Penn State: Can't find what you are looking for? Try searching the following catalogs.

WorldCat - WorldCat includes over 38 million records for books, periodicals, magazines, and any other type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries.  The database includes records for material as early as the 11th century.

E-ZBorrow (PALCI) - Pennsylvania Academic Libraries

VEL - The Big 10's Virtual Electronic Library

RLG - Research Libraries Group's Union Catalog

top of page

Electronic Books

The following databases can be accessed through the E-Resource List (A-Z) and are only available to current Penn State students, faculty and staff.

netLibrary

NetLibrary provides access to a PALCI-shared collection of electronic books. Access to a title is limited to one concurrent user at a time.

Safari

Safari provides electronic access to computer manuals from a several publishers and allows the user to search across a number of different manuals simultaneously.

MIT CogNet

MIT CogNet, the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community Online, provides access to a searchable, full-text library of books, journals, and reference works from the MIT Press.

World Bank e-Library

World Bank E-Library presents full text PDF-format versions of all new World Bank books and selected books beginning in 1984.

Gutenberg-e

The e-books are selected by the American Historical Association and produced by the electronic publishing staff at Columbia University Press. The electronic versions offer elements that cannot be conveyed in print: extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related web sites.

top of page

Reference Sources

ELECTRONIC: The following databases can be accessed through the E-Resource List (A-Z) and are only available to current Penn State students, faculty and staff.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Contains searchable full-text of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in many different subject fields.

Encyclopedia Britannica

International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Access Science (McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)

top of page

Dissertations and Theses:

Penn State Dissertations:

Penn State's Online Catalog (CAT)
http://cat.libraries.psu.edu/uhtbin/guestcat.exe

• Use the online catalog to find dissertations and thesis written by Penn State students.
• Request materials not available at Great Valley by clicking on the I WANT IT button.
• First click on Advanced Search (on the right) and go to Material Type (toward the bottom) and use the drop down menu to limit your search to Doctoral Dissertation

The Pennsylvania State University's electronic Theses and Dissertations Archives
http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/

This archive is the collection of all Penn State electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). These ETDs fall into three categories of access. Most are available for worldwide access. Others are restricted to the Penn State community. Some are totally restricted due to a number of reasons, such as pre-publication concerns.

Dissertations from various institutions:

Dissertation Abstracts

Dissertation Abstracts is the primary source for 1.4 million doctoral dissertations (and selected master's theses) from over 1000 North American and European universities. Includes a link to the UMI full text dissertation pilot project. Coverage: 1851 to date. Abstracts are available for dissertations since 1980, abstracts for theses since 1988.

WorldCat

WorldCat includes over 38 million records for books, periodicals, magazines, and any other type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries.  The database includes records for material as early as the 11th century.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
http://www.ndltd.org/

"The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to NDLTD and ETDs."

THESES CANADA PORTAL
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html

Launched by National Library of Canada. A website that provides free access to 46,000 full text electronic Canadian theses. Searching of over 220,000 Canadian theses held by the Library and Archives Canada is also available.

Center for Research Libraries Foreign Dissertation Database
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23&l3=44&l4=25

"More than 17,000 dissertation titles recently received or recently circulated. Please note that no new records are being added to this database. To view or search current dissertations, please access the CRL catalog."

top of page

WEBSITES

Penn State Sites:

Penn State Great Valley Education Division
http://www.gv.psu.edu/Prospective_Students/Degrees___Certificates/Education/

Penn State Education and Behavioral Sciences Library Homepage
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/ebsl/

Associations & Organizations:

Associations Unlimited
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dballrem.html#EA

This reference database has information and locations on nearly 144,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide: International and U.S. National, Regional, State, and Local.

National Education Association (NEA)
http://www.nea.org/index.html

More Sites:

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

Pennsylvania Department of Education
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/

The Virtual Library: Education
http://vlib.org/Education.htm

Open Directory Project
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=education

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

Online Reference Resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/gateway/referenceshelf/

Complied by Penn State Librarians, this website provides links to general reference material including: Almanacs, Fact Books, Biographical & Genealogical Resources, Census, Statistics, & Data Sets, Education & Funding Resources, Internet Search Tools, Dictionaries/Encyclopedias, Directories and much more.

top of page