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Journal/Magazine Articles

(See section below for research tools for school-age children.)

Education Full Text (Wilson)
Comprehensive coverage of periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks in education.
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Education Research Complete (EBSCO)  
The world’s largest and most complete collection of full text education journals, covering all areas of education.

ERIC (EBSCO)
Citations and abstracts for 1000+ education and education-related journals, plus lesson plans, reports, and other types of documents.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)
Highly specialized collection of journals and reports for professional educators.  More than half the journals are peer-reviewed.

Proquest Education Journals
The database covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

WilsonSelectPlus
Full-text articles in business, science, technology, education, health, art, broadcasting, and engineering.
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Research Tools for School-Age Children:

EBSCO Animals  (NOVEL)
Easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals for elementary school students.

InfoTrac Junior Edition (Gale - NOVEL)
Designed for junior high and middle school students, includes full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books, as well as full color maps.

Kids Search (EBSCO - NOVEL)
Designed for students in grades K-8. Search by keyword or topic to find images, dictionary entries, or articles in magazines or encyclopedias.   Includes teacher resources.

Primary Search (EBSCO - NOVEL)
Full-text articles from popular magazines and reference materials suitable for elementary school research.  Lexile reading level indicators assigned to each article.

Searchasaurus (EBSCO - NOVEL)
An animated, dinosaur-themed search interface designed for the very young researcher. Contains the same content as Primary Search.

TOPICsearch (EBSCO - NOVEL)
Current events database geared toward students in grades 5-12.


Reference

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database
Critical reviews and other information about children’s books, multimedia, audiobooks, etc.  Contains book jacket images, links to author and illustrator web sites, information on award-winning titles, plus best books lists and all state reading lists.  Reading measurement parameters of the Accelerated Reader, Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile, and Reading Counts are provided.

CollegeSource Online
Complete and printable college catalogs for 2-year, 4-year, and graduate schools in the U.S. and internationally.  Detailed college profiles.  Search for colleges by major, location, enrollment, tuition, etc.