Professional Development Collection 
Coverage: varies. Professional Development Collection 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.
ERIC
Coverage: 1966-present. The Educational Resource Information Center, containing citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals and ERIC documents (on microfiche and online).
JSTOR
Coverage: varies. Includes over one thousand leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous titles. Beginning in 2011, current issues for more than 150 journals will be available on JSTOR as part of the Current Scholarship Program.
Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
LexisNexis Academic
Coverage: varies, generally 1980s-- . A multi-disciplinary database, with especially strong news, business and legal material.
PsycInfo
Coverage: 1887-present. Contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines.
Humanities & Social Science Index Retrospective
Coverage: 1907-1984. Allows search of a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences.
INSPEC
Coverage: 1969-present. A bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world`s scientific and technical literature.
Web of Knowledge
Coverage: 1989-present. Consists of databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. It includes the Science Citation and Social Sciences Citation Indexes.
Physical Education Index
Coverage: 1970-present. Features a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.
Primary Search
Coverage: 1990-present. Provides access to popular magazines for elementary school research, with all articles assigned a reading level indicator.
Encyclopedia of African American Education
2009 ed. The entries provide a comprehensive overview of educational institutions at every level, from preschool through graduate and professional training, with special attention to historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities. The encyclopedia follows the struggle of African Americans to achieve equality in education—beginning among an enslaved population and evolving into the present—as the efforts of many remarkable individuals furthered this cause through court decisions and legislation.
Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
2010 ed. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the academic field of curriculum studies for the scholar, student, teacher, and administrator.
Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent
2010 ed. Educational reform is a topic rich with ideas, rife with controversy, and vital in its outcome for school patrons, educators, and the nation as a whole.
Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent
2009 ed. These volumes review research findings on giftedness, talent, and creativity and their effect on education, training, science and the arts, government policy, and everyday life.
Encyclopedia of Education Law
2009 ed. This encyclopedia is a compendium of information drawn from the various dimensions of education law that tells its story from a variety of perspectives. The Encyclopedia also includes selections from key legal documents such as the Constitution and federal statutes that serve as the primary sources for research on education law.
Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education
2010 ed. A compendium of information that tells the story of law and higher education from a variety of perspectives. As many of the entries in this encyclopedia reflect, the editor and contributors have sought to place legal issues in perspective so that students of higher education and the law can inform policy makers and practitioners about the meaning and status of the law and also raise questions for future research as they seek to improve the quality of learning for all.
Encyclopedia of Research Design
2010 ed. Explains how to make decisions about research design, undertake research projects in an ethical manner, interpret and draw valid inferences from data, and evaluate experiment design strategies and results. Two additional features carry this encyclopedia far above other works in the field: bibliographic entries devoted to significant articles in the history of research design and reviews of contemporary tools, such as software and statistical procedures, used to analyze results.
Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
2008 ed. A comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural foundations of education. With more than 400 entries, the three volumes of this indispensable resource offer a thorough and interdisciplinary view of the field for all those interested in issues involving schools and society.
Encyclopedia of Education
2002 ed. Describes the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world, offering a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice.
World Education Encyclopedia
2001 ed. (2nd ed.) This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries.
Chronicle of Higher Education Online
Coverage: 1995-present. Published every weekday, this is a source of news, advice, and jobs for people in academe.
Data (World Bank)
Recognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the World Bank Group provides free access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe--some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English.
National Education Association 
Current and projected statistics for public K-12 schools including the "Status of the American Public School Teacher" report.
Open Doors Online
Produced by the Institute of International Education, contains data on foreign students studying in the U.S. and U.S. students studying abroad.
Other US Data
For more US-centric data on a multitude of topics.
US Department of Education
United States Department of Education website is full of materials on the state of education in the United States. This includes data, statistics, white papers, education policy, legislation, guidelines and best practices.
National Center for Education Statistics
Current national and international education statistics. Also features an electronic catalog and search tool for NCES reports; users can browse the report and often download the files.
World Data on Education
Educational profiles for about 110 countries that include literacy figures, government spending on education and enrollment ratios. Much of the material is taken from UNESCO's Statistical Yearbook and other government sources.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
15th ed. The complete contents of the Chicago Manual of Style.
Guide to APA citations
Diana Hacker's guide to the APA style, including in-text citations and list of references.
Polling the Nations
Coverage: 1986- present. A compilation of surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries.
Public Opinion Polls
Resources available to the Colgate community
Professional Development Collection
Coverage: varies. Professional Development Collection 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.
ERIC
Coverage: 1966-present. The Educational Resource Information Center, containing citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals and ERIC documents (on microfiche and online).
Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Education Review: a journal of book reviews
Coverage: 2002--. ER publishes reviews of recently published books in education. Reviews are written by education scholars and are typically 2,500 to 4,000 words long. Reviews may be browsed by topic, book author, book title, review author, or the date of publication of the book.
Education Index
Call Number: Case Ref L11 .E38
Coverage: 1929/32-2007/08. Separate book review section begins volume 26, 1975/76. Previous volumes, use subject heading Book Reviews--Single Books.
Book Review Index
Coverage: 1965-present.
Indexes reviews in magazines and scholarly journals.
Book Review Digest
Call Number: Case Ref Z1219.C95
Coverage: 1905-2004/05.
Indexes and excerpts reviews of books written in English and published in the U.S. and Canada. More selective than Book Review Index. Arranged alphabetically by author; subject and title indexes. Search year of publication and the year following publication.
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