Education Resources
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Journal Articles
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Academic Search Premier
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications in nearly every area of academic study. -
ArticleFirst
Index of articles from the contents pages of more than 16,000 journals published since 1990.
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ERIC (Dept of Education)
The worlds premier database of journal and non-journal education literature with more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. The only source for more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents.
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ERIC (EBSCO)
Provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Also provides full text of ERIC digests.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. Get it @ RPI links allow users to connect to full text articles from Rensselaer Libraries.
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LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical and reference information. Coverage dates back more than 20 years for many areas. For an industry report, click on Companies in the left frame, and then Company Dossier in the left frame. Enter company ticker. Under Financials, click Analyst Reports.
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Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. A comprehensive collection of full text education journals.
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ProQuest Education Journals
Access to over 785 educational publications, with more than 615 available in full text. Covers primary, secondary, and higher education, special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Coverage: 1991-present.
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ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to more than 4,000 periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines.
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PsycINFO
From the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines,such as management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine and social work. Contains material dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
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Rand Publications
RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. Report and book topics include Criminal Justice, Education, Enterprise Analysis, Health, Civil Justice, and Science and Technology.
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Web of Science (with Conference Proceedings)
Includes all five ISI citation products: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science; and Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science and Humanities. Citation databases treat the references of an article as index terms, allowing them to be searched.
- Citation Databases
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. Get it @ RPI links allow users to connect to full text articles from Rensselaer Libraries.
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Web of Science (with Conference Proceedings)
Includes all five ISI citation products: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science; and Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science and Humanities. Citation databases treat the references of an article as index terms, allowing them to be searched.
- Magazines
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LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical and reference information. Coverage dates back more than 20 years for many areas. For an industry report, click on Companies in the left frame, and then Company Dossier in the left frame. Enter company ticker. Under Financials, click Analyst Reports.
- Newspapers & News Sources
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Gale Newsstand
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LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical and reference information. Coverage dates back more than 20 years for many areas. For an industry report, click on Companies in the left frame, and then Company Dossier in the left frame. Enter company ticker. Under Financials, click Analyst Reports.
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NewspaperSource (EBSCOhost)
245 regional U.S. newspapers, 18 international newspapers, 6 news wires, and 9 newspaper columns, including The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times
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ProQuest National Newspapers
Indexes and abstracts 28 national and regional newspapers.
- Retrospective & Historical Information
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Google Books
Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.
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NewspaperSource (EBSCOhost)
245 regional U.S. newspapers, 18 international newspapers, 6 news wires, and 9 newspaper columns, including The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times
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PsycINFO
From the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines,such as management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine and social work. Contains material dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages.