Education (General)

• PsycARTICLES
• ProQuest 
• Google Scholar

• ERIC
• ERIC (US Dept of Education)
• ProQuest Education Journals
  
• WorldCat
• Dissertations and Theses 
• Education Index 

• America: History and Life
• JSTOR
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• PolicyFile
• PsycINFO
• Sociological Abstracts
• Social Science Citation Index (Web of Science)

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

Includes:

•    21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook (2008)
•    College Blue Book (2008)
•    Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education (2008)
•    Encyclopedia of Education (2003)
•    Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration (2006)
•    Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (2009)
•    the World Education Encyclopedia (2001)
•    and many other resources.

• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• CQ Researcher – background, chronology, and pro/con essays on important social issues, including Education.
• Annual Reports of the National Center for Education Statistics – a source for the most commonly requested statistics pertaining to Education.
• Kids Count Data Center – statistics on many aspects of children’s and teens’ well-being, detailed to the state level.

• Almanac of American Education
• Chronology of Education in the United States (2006)
• Early Childhood Education: An International Encyclopedia (2007)
• Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia (2004)
• Education and Technology: An Encyclopedia (2004)
• Encyclopedia of American Education (2007 – other campuses may have an earlier edition)
• Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education (2001)
• Encyclopedia of Special Education (2007 – other campuses may have an earlier edition)
• Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia (2007)
• Greenwood Dictionary of Education (2003)
• Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia (2002)
• International Encyclopedia of Adult Education (2005)
• Learning Theories: A to Z (2002)
• Multicultural and Diversity Education: A Reference Handbook (2002)
• Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia (1996)

• CAT
• netLibrary
• WorldCAT
• Google Book Search – provides “snippets,” partial- , and full-text of millions of books.
• Annenberg Media –after signing up (it’s free), you can view professional videos for teachers.

• In The CAT, select “Advanced Search”
  In the box for “Material Type” selected either “Instructional Material” or “Juvenile” or “Video.” For items at another campus, click the “I WANT IT” button.
  

• Book Collection: Nonfiction
• Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database
• For more resources on children’s/adolescent literature, see the Children’s Literature Research Guide.
• Discovery Education – not at Penn State, but often available at schools and public libraries. A source of online documentaries for K-12 audiences.
• Kraus Curriculum Development Library
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
• MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
• TumbleBooks – not at Penn State, but often available at schools and public libraries. A source of online children’s books from major publishers.

• American Federation of Teachers
• American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• American Educational Research Association
• Council for Exceptional Children
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• National Education Association
• Pennsylvania Department of Education
• UNESCO (Education Portal)
• U. S. Department of Education

• Action in Teacher Education
• Adult Education Quarterly
• American Educational Research Journal
• American Journal of Education
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Early Childhood Research Quarterly
• Educational Administration Quarterly
• Educational Leadership
• Educational Researcher
• Education Week
• Elementary School Journal
• Harvard Educational Review
• Instructional Science
• Journal of Education Policy
• Journal of Higher Education
• Journal of the Learning Sciences
• Journal of Research in Reading
• Learning and Instruction
• Reading Research Quarterly
• Reading Teacher
• Research in Higher Education
• Review of Educational Research
• Scientific Studies in Reading
• Sociology of Education
• Teachers College Record
• Young Children