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Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,000 full-text periodicals, many of which are peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,000 journals and a total of 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in all areas of academic study including area studies, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals.
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Education includes the full text of 36 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 90 years. The database includes 45,400 articles in the areas of adult and continuing education, educational administration, educational policy, elementary and primary education, high school and secondary education, higher education, international education, leadership, measurement and testing, multicultural education and diversity, professional development, teaching and instruction, teaching methods. Every bibliographic record in the database links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
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ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, with more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on educational research and practice. The database contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
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Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.
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If you need to pass an important test, get extra help with your courses, or ensure a top score on a graduate school entrance exam, the resources available in Learning Express Library can help you reach your goal. Create your own personal account within Learning Express Library and then work on the tutorials and practice tests at your own pace. LEL includes PRAXIS practice tests, GRE reviews, help for job seekers with resumes and interviews, and skill-builders in all academic areas. Provided by the State Library of Iowa.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts™ (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. LISTA is free to any library - compliments of EBSCO Publishing.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Coverage is from 1985 to the present.
**This database allows up to four simultaneous users.**
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The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
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Psychology includes the full text of 34 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 60 years. The database encompasses over 44,400 articles in such areas as applied psychology, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, family studies, industrial/organizational psychology, learning disabilities, personality, school psychology, and social psychology. Every bibliographic record in the database links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
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PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. PsycINFO also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, physiology, pharmacology, sociology, education, nursing, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
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SPORTDiscus is the world's most comprehensive sports and sports medicine database. Articles from more than 440 journals are available with links to full-text. Coverage ranges from 1985 to the present. Material published in books and conference proceedings is also indexed in this database.
**SPORTDiscus allows up to four simultaneous users.**
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Teacher Reference Center provides abstracts and some full-text for 270 of the most popular education and administration journals to assist professional educators. Most journals in TRC are peer-reviewed.
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