Back to School Databases (September)

Several key databases are critical for searching the literature in essentially all subject fields at Teachers College; these resources include:

ERIC, the database of the Educational Resources Information Center is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature through two main parts: Current Index to Journals in Education and Resources in Education. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs from 1966 to the present, with full text ERIC documents available online from 1993 and up.

Education Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. The full text of articles, with indexing cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this an essential resource. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC’s Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).

Academic Search Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.

JStor offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. With 112 titles, JStor Arts and Sciences Collection (IV) provides a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology and public policy and administration.

JStor Health and General Science Collection features important historical scientific journals and seminal publications in the health sciences, and it offers published scientific research from as far back as 1665. The collection includes publications of the Royal Society of London, which extend back to the seventeenth century, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, which dates from the early twentieth century. A cluster of titles in nursing and epidemiology is also available through the Health and General Sciences Collection today.

PsycInfo provides citations and abstracts to journal articles and English language books from 1806 to the present in the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics.

APA PscyNet is a resource published by the American Psychological Association that includes access to the following titles: PsycInfo, a large database containing abstracts and bibliographic citations for the scholarly psychological literature from the early 1800s to the present; PsycArticles, searchable full-text articles from journal published by APA, EPF (the Educational Publishing Foundation), and allied publishers; PsycBooks, which contains full books and chapters from APA books, classic books published by others, and the full electronic release of the Encyclopedia of Psychology published by APA and Oxford University Press, with new books are added each month; PsyCritiques, or Contemporary Psychology–APA Review of Books is a database of book and film reviews; and PsycExtra, professional literature published outside peer reviewed journals and scholarly books, covering conference presentations, technical reports, white papers, standards, policies, and more.

Digital Dissertations provides subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Masters theses have been selectively indexed since 1962. Abstracts are included for doctoral dissertation records from July 1980 to the present and for masters theses from 1988. In addition, the full text of dissertations published since 1997 (and some from earlier dates) is available.