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General Databases

Academic Onefile
Searches many peer reviewed full text journal articles in multiple disciplines.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts over 18,000 journals in science and technology, psychology, religion and philosophy, etc. Over 4,800 journals are peer-reviewed and full text.

Library Catalog - Find books, journal articles, videos, and more

Library Catalog

Find books, journal articles, videos, and more.

Subject Databases

EbscoHost Databases This link opens in a new window
Menu of all databases accessible at Carthage via EBSCOhost. View Tutorial:
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher provides in-depth coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, education, the environment, technology, the U.S. economy, and international affairs. View Tutorial:
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Coverage ranges from early childhood to higher education, with specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Indexes and abstracts over 3,500 journals, as well as providing full text for numerous journals, books, and conference papers.
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts over 1.4 million records, links to over 337,000 full-text documents of educational literature and resources.
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
Downloadable public-use data sets from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research that can be used with SPSS or Excel for statistical analysis. You can create an account from on-campus using your carthage.edu e-mail as the contact info.
Safe Search This link opens in a new window
Safe Search Kids is the Friendly Search Engine for Kids powered by Google. Providing kid safe internet filtering and parental control software solutions.
MAS Complete This link opens in a new window
Designed for high school libraries, this database provides full text for some 500 general interest and current events magazines and over 360 reference books, including photos, maps and flags.

Center for Parent and Information Resources
Supporting the Parent Centers Who Serve Families of Children with Disabilities, CPIR replaced the NICHCY in 2015.

In Spanish and English, provides information and resources from diagnosis to intervention strategies to evaluation/placement issues. Includes academic research studies and practical information for parents, educators, and care providers.
Primary Search
Provides full text for some 60 popular magazines for elementary school research.

Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
This database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, including the following:
* Booklist
* Education
* Education Week
* Journal of Education
* Journal of Educational Research
* School Library Journal

...And many others.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Full-text database containing more than 178,000 peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from over 100 journals covering psychology-related subjects.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Abstracting database of over 3.5 million citations in the behavioral science and mental health fields from the 1800s to the present.

Teacher Reference Center
TRC indexes over 260 titles and provides coverage on key education topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science and mathematics.

Online Reference

Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
The Third Edition of the highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of Special Education offers a thoroughly revised, comprehensive A to Z compilation of authoritative information on the education of those with special needs from AAMR, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ON MENTAL RETARDATION to ZYGOSITY. All articles are cross-referenced, and citations guiding you to related sources appear at the end of each entry.

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of ebooks including subject encyclopedias, handbooks and guides, and covering many subject disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia
The entries in this work cover the breadth of topics related to gender and education. They provide reference information on the history and condition of gender and education from elementary to high school.
Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children
It provides a comprehensive overview of important contemporary issues and the information necessary to make judgments about these issues.The volume is organized in four parts: Early Childhood Education and Child Development.Early Childhood Educational Curriculum.Foundations of Early Childhood Educational Policy.Research and Evaluation Strategies for Early Childhood Education.
Key Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care
Cathy Nutbrown, a leading academic in early childhood education, identifies and explains key terms and practices central to the work and study of early childhood in this accessible reference text.
Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia
The encyclopedia is designed to show the diversity of topics that contribute to the study of the philosophy of education. The core of the encyclopedia is its coverage of philosophical points of view that have had the greatest influence on educational thinking, from ancient Greece to the present.
The Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the U.S.
The Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the U.S. focuses on this fight for equal educational access and represents a significant addition to American educational literature. The contributors to this volume reveal that many Latino children still face challenges that were present many decades ago.

Research Tools

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Full Text Finder

Full Text Finder is not an article database, it is a portal to journal availability within the library database and serials collections.