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Education Searching Guide

Your InfoKat account: see due dates, renew books, learn your fines, track your requests, save records and searches. These are your borrowing privileges.
Your ILLiad account: place orders, renew loans.
Your LinkBlue account: get off-campus access to databases.
Create your own accounts in EBSCOhost, WilsonWeb, Ovid, JSTOR, Web of Science, WorldCat, etc., to save searches, records, make lists, etc.
Create your own EndNote Web account. Save the references that you've collected here and there and everywhere. Use EndNote to "cite while you write." You can also download the desktop software version. More info.
Here's a show showing how to use your accounts.

Oxford Reference Online and Gale Virtual Reference Library give articles on most any topic, person, place.
Biography Reference Bank; Biography Master Index (BGMI)
CQ Researcher and Opposing Viewpoints will give you overviews and articles, especially on current topics.
Search also Wikipedia; for recent articles you can browse Times Topics.

InfoKat / WorldCat.
You can also use Google Books to find good stuff; click the link "Find this book in a Library" to learn library holdings.
The article databases listed next give you book reviews: that's an easy way to learn of books on your topic. Search also Book Review Index Online.
Dissertations & Theses: many of these are full-text.
OregonPDF in Health and Performance

Education Full Text (WilsonWeb); older print volumes of Education Index in the library's reference section.
ERIC and Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
PsycInfo and Sport Discus (EBSCOhost) / PsycInfo (OVID interface)
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)
America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
Sociological Abstracts and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (CSA)
Social Work Abstracts and PsycInfo (Ovid)
Gender Watch / Ethnic News Watch (Proquest)
Web of Science: covers all disciplines, all scholarly journals; you can search article footnotes using a Cited Ref search. From here, using Journal Citation Reports, you can get details on the top 100 or so education journals.
JSTOR: covers all disciplines, all scholarly journals, all full-text.
And, why not? Google Scholar. Results include monographs and articles. For journal full-text look for the familiar "Get Text @ UK" otherwise, click "Other UK means of access" or go directly to InfoKat or ILLiad. (If off-campus tune Scholar Preferences to UK.)
Info on journals in Ulrich's, Cabell's, JCR.

Tests: Mental Measurements Yearbook (Ovid); ETS
DSM IV-TR
Statistics: Digest of Education Statistics; CCD; Condition of Education; Nation's Report Card; Statistical Search; Social Explorer
Government reports: Monthly Catalog (pre 1976) and Catalog of U.S. Government Pubs (since 1976). Government reports also appear in InfoKat.
Survey results: Polling the Nation
Legal cases, reviews, laws in LexisNexis; reviews, statues, etc., in Hein Online / take time to visit the campus Law Library.
Newspaper and broadcast articles: LexisNexis, Lexington Herald-Leader, Courier-Journal (Louisville)
Children's sources: Searchasaurus, Novelist
Words: definitions and extensive histories: the fabulous Oxford English Dictionary!
Historical sources: Here I list links to a great variety of primary-source sources.

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