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Education / Human Resources Development
Indexes & Databases
Academic Search Premier
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Academic Search Premier
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
« Hide Description America: History and Life [info] America: History and Life
Coverage: From 1954
Licensed Number of Users: 6
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Index to research on the history of the United States and Canada, from prehistoric times to the present. Includes references to journal articles, books and book reviews, dissertations, and collective works.
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Education Full Text
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Education Full Text
Format: Internet
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Education Full Text, published by H.W. Wilson, provides high-quality indexing and abstracts for an international range of English-language education journals, books, and yearbooks. More than 725 Journals are indexed “cover to cover” going back to 1983. Full text articles are provided for over 350 journals going back to 1996. ArticleLinker connects to additional full-text articles and points to library holdings in print and microform.
« Hide Description ERIC - Education (EBSCO) [info] ERIC - Education (EBSCO)
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1966
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides a database of journal and non-journal education literature for K-12 teachers, school administrators, education faculty, school psychologists and education students. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. This database contains more than 1.2 million citations going back to 1966. More than 110,000 full-text non-journal documents (from years 1993-present) are included in the database. The EBSCO version connects to many full-text journal articles through Linked Full Text and Article Linker.
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Historical Abstracts
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Historical Abstracts
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1969
Index to articles, dissertations, and books on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Works on U.S. and Canadian history are covered in America: History and Life.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook
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Mental Measurements Yearbook
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1985
Covers more than 2,200 commercially available tests in categories such as achievement, aptitude, behavioral assessment, developmental, educational, intelligence, neuropsychological, personality, sensory motor and speech & hearing.
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Official documents of the United Nations
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Official documents of the United Nations
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1993
Official Document System of the United Nations(ODS)covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993, and selected earlier coverage
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Index to dissertations from 1861 to the present, representing the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Includes the 350-word abstracts written by the author for those dissertations published after 1979. More limited coverage of master's theses from 1962 on (UM theses are not included); citations for those published after 1987 include 150-word abstracts. Database includes full text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996.
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PsycARTICLES
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PsycARTICLES
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1985
PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from 53 psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. The database is updated daily.
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PsycINFO
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PsycINFO
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage includes references and abstracts to over 1,300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations. Updated weekly.
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Sociological Abstracts
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Sociological Abstracts
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1974
Covers sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, gerontology, mental health, minority studies, political science, public health, social psychology, social work, urban studies, welfare programs, and women's studies. Comprehensive and international in scope. Covers about 2,600 journals in 30 different languages from 55 different countries. Also includes books, conference papers,and doctoral dissertations.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
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Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1600-2000
A collection of documentary projects pertaining to women and social movements in the United States. Primary source materials include books, images, manuscripts, journal articles, phamplets, letters, commentaries and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. This database has been made available through USM Faculty Technology Grant awards to the History and Women's Studies programs.
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