Highlighted Databases: Women in Education

At the turn of the century, the head professor of Latin dubbed 120th Street "hairpin alley" (James Earl Russell, Founding Teachers College, NY, 1937, pp. 64-65). Lawrence Cremin, renowned education history and seventh president of Teachers College, reported that by 1950-51, almost 36 percent of the professors here were women, a considerable increase over the years, while female faculty climbed the academic ladder as regularly as their male counterparts (A History of Teachers College, p.245). While philanthropist Grace Dodge served as the pioneering founder of Teachers College, Susan Fuhrman served as the first female president of Teachers College from 2006-2018.

Indeed there are milestones: the founding in 1833 of Oberlin College, the first higher education institution to admit women and people of color; the Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848, which addressed issues of suffrage, education, and employment; the granting in 1877 of the first female doctorate -- a Ph.D to Helen Magill who attended Swarthmore College and Boston University. By 1880, women comprised eighty percent of all elementary school educators. By 1910 women comprised 39 percent of collegiate undergraduates, and 20 percent of college faculty.

Join us as we feature selective resources that cover the literature of women in education during Women's History Month.

Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. It includes the full text of articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference works published by H.W. Wilson, including "Current biography", plus thousands of biographies from other publishers. In addition to full text biographies, the database contains millions of magazine citations (many of which contain full-text), as well as thousands of book review excerpts. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth or death, keyword, and presence of images.

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.

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Education Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. There is full text of articles, with indexing cover to cover, from hundreds of journals. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC’s CIJE.

Education Index Retrospective provides cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals and yearbooks. It includes accurate, detailed, cover-to-cover indexing of some 500 periodicals, as far back as 1929. It cites nearly one million articles, including book reviews.

Education Research Complete is an authoritative online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.

Professional Development Collection is designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world.

JStor, a scholarly journal archive, provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added on an ongoing basis.

Pocketknowledge contains digitized resources about the history and development of Teachers College, Columbia University, including historical dissertations, papers of the faculty, records of departments, programs, centers, and experimental and demonstration schools, artwork, media, and much more.

Social Sciences Full Text overs the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. There is a wide range of the most important English-language journals published in the U.S. and elsewhere with full text and page images from scores of key publications, plus abstracting and indexing of hundreds of others.

Poster Image: Blue Girl's Dress, from the McNeeley Costume Drawings Collection, Courtesy of Teachers College, Columbia University

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