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 Education: 20 Databases

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Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1985-
Description: Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for 1,800+ publications (including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed journals). Indexing and abstracts provided for all 3,200+ journals in the collection. Full text information dating as far back as 1985.
Dissertation Abstracts Online
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs. Look for and click on the "Free Download" button on the search results screen.
Coverage: 1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting Dissertations); 1988- (Abstracting Theses).
Description: Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Dissertations from all institutions since 1997 have 24-page previews freely available without restriction. Masters theses selectively indexed since 1962. Includes citations for thousands of Canadian dissertations and an increasing number of papers accepted in institutions abroad. Professional (e.g., M.D., LL.D.) and honorary degrees not included.
EBSCO Animals  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
EBSCOhost  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.
Education Abstracts Full Text 
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1983- (Indexing); 1994- (Abstracting); 1996- (selected Full Text).
Description: Indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals and yearbooks on education; also indexes English-language books relating to education. Includes selected full text.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
ERIC (EBSCO)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1966-
Description: Provides article citations and abstracting to more than 750 educational journals, related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC), and educational symposium report literature. Selected full text articles available for thousands of ERIC digest records.
Expanded Academic ASAP  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,000+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.
International Medieval Bibliography Online  
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Click on "Enter databases", then select International Medieval Bibliography - online.
Coverage: 1967-
Description: Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.
Journal Citation Reports on the Web (Science Ed. & Social Sciences Ed.)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1999-2001
Description: Resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide, showing the relationship between citing and cited journals.
Kraus Curriculum Development Library Cumulative Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1983/18th ed.(1999)
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: Indexes the microfiche full-text collection "Kraus Curriculum Development Library" providing lesson plans for primary and secondary education.
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online  
Type: Reference
* Click on "Enter databases", then select Lexikon des Mittelalters Online.
Lumen
Type: Reference
Description: Website for highlighting University of Notre Dame faculty and student research, scholarship, creativity and teaching.
MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Full text as far back as 1990 from over 400 periodicals covering general reference and current events; indexing and abstract backfiles as far back as 1984.
Middle Search Plus (EBSCO)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: In addition to full text as far back as 1990, indexes and abstracts as far back as 1984 selected magazines covering general reference, health, and science topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students. Includes thousands of full text entries from Magill book reviews.
NetLibrary E-book Collection
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: A collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.
Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.
Primary Search (EBSCO)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides full text from dozens of children's magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children's reading rooms. Indexing and abstracting from additional selected publications. Other full text sources include World Almanac for Kids.
PsycINFO  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1872-
Description: Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Top American Research Universities
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: 2000-
Description: Provides data that present institutions within their competetive context as a tool for measuring and improving research university performance.
WDI online
    (Use World Development Indicators)
World Development Indicators  
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
Description: The World Bank's comprehensive database on development data (social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators) including more than 500 indicators, more than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups; with coverage from 1960 onward, where data are available.

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