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DATABASES

Education Full Text  (Wilson Web)
 
This database has comprehensive coverage of an international range of English language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Educational topics covered include adult education, comparative education, continuing & distance education, educational technology, elementary & secondary education, higher education, instructional media, literacy standards, multicultural education, pre-school and special education, teacher education & evaluation, and teaching methods. Includes full text of more than 300 publications as well as indexing/abstracting of over 700 journals as far back as 1983.


ERIC  (EBSCOhost)
 
The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.


Teacher Reference Center  (EBSCOhost)
 
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators and education students. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.


Educator's Reference Desk  (Syracuse University)

The Educator's Reference Desk provides access to the following resources:
Resource Collection - Links to over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues. This collection includes Internet sites, educational organizations, and electronic discussion groups.
Lesson Plans - The Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States.
Question Archive - A collection of over 200 responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education. These responses may include citations from the ERIC database, Internet sites, discussion groups, and/or print resource information.
ERIC Database - The ERIC database, the world's largest source of education information, contains more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.


K-12 Resources  (EBSCOhost)
 
This is a collection of databases containing information suitable for students in K-12. This is a good resource for lesson planning for education majors.


JSTOR  (JSTOR)
 
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JSTOR is an archive of complete full-text backfiles. The current collection includes journals from the Art & Science Collections I - V and the Arts & Sciences Complement and covers most academic disciplines. This collection is growing and currently has more then 500 titles.


Data for Research  (JSTOR)
 
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A new way to search the JSTOR database! Provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. Features provided by the site include: Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.

E-BOOKS

Ebrary
 
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Ebrary is a growing collection of electronic books and other documents. At present through the Academic Complete Collection Salve Regina University patrons have access to over 22,000 titles. Included in these titles is a collection of more than 1,050 historical and geopolitical maps of academic interest. More than 180 different academic publishers have contributed material to the Academic Complete Collection. Most titles in the collection have been published within the last two years.
Ebrary includes a rich collection of titles in many subject areas, ranging from Business and Economics, Computers and Technology, Life and Physical Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, to Law and General Reference, that are not available in any other collection.


netLibrary
 
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Over 8,000 full-text electronic books available online.

DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Handbook of Research on ePortfolios  (Idea Group Inc)
 
The single source for comprehensive coverage of the major themes of ePortfolios, addressing all of the major issues, from concept to technology to implementation. It investigates commercial and academic ePortfolio systems—home-grown, off the shelf, and open source. Contains a compendium of over 370 terms with detailed definitions. Over 800 comprehensive references to existing literature and research on ePortfolios.


WHED Online  (Palgrave/MacMillan)

This site is the most authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of information on higher education systems and institutions worldwide. It brings together data from the International Handbook of Universities 2009 and an additional 5,000 Institutions that offer 3-year degrees, to provide a fully cross-referenced and searchable database featuring information on over 17,000 institutions in more than 180 countries. Detailed information on the higher education system of every country is also included.

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Academic Search Complete  (EBSCOhost)
 
Provides full text for nearlymore than 5,000 scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Click here for a journal title list.


ACE - Bibliography of Resources Pertaining to the Social History of Aquidneck Island

This database is intended as a guide to the resources available pertaining to the social history of Aquidneck Island for teachers from Kindergarten to 12th grade, and other interested parties. All materials have been located in repositories on Aquidneck Island. There are additional resources on the subject that are available off-island, but they were not accessed for use in this bibliography. This biography was created by ACE,


AltHealth Watch  (EBSCOhost)
 
Alt HealthWatch is a full text and image database comprised of publications focused on the area of complementary and alternative approaches to health including holistic counseling and rehabilitation counseling. The large body of international resources includes peer-reviewed journals, reports, and proceedings, association and issue-oriented newsletters, professional publications, consumer magazines, background pamphlets and reference material. The database provides in-depth coverage on both professional and consumer levels across the full spectrum of subject areas addressed by "ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE."


ARTstor  (ARTstor)
 
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.


Child Care & Early Education Research Connections  (Columbia University)

A continually updated multidisciplinary database related to child care and early education consisting of over 10,000 resources, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, research reports, grey literature, government publications, and more. Resources are selected from over 500 journals and 300 publishers. Research Connections is a partnership among the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan; and the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


Chronicle of Higher Education
 
Username and password available at the Reference Desk (401-341-2289).
Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators." --The Chroncicle


Credo Reference
 
Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.


General Science Full Text  (Wilson Web)
 
General Science Full Text covers scientific information from the fields of astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environment, genetics, health, mathematics, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology. It includes full text from over 80 periodicals and abstracting/indexing of another 280 titles. Coverage is from the present to 1984.


Naxos Music Library
 
The Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo catalogues, and selected titles from other labels. Most recordings come with scholarly notes which have been written by respected musicologists. All notes can be accessed and read while listening. NAXOS has 90,000-plus tracks, and more than 6,000 CDs. Over 7,000 composers are represented. Besides classical other genres include Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music. New releases are added monthly.


Newport Daily News  (Newsbank)

The Newport Daily News, established in 1846, covers the people and events of Newport, RI.
Coverage: May 14, 2001 - present.

America's Historical Newspapers contains: Newport Gazette, 1777; Newport Herald, 1787-1791; and Newport Mercury, 1758-1866.


TOPICsearch  (EBSCOhost)
 
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s K-12 classrooms.


Middle Search Plus   (EBSCOhost)
 
Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents such as Essential Documents in American History, and reference books such as the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and the American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition.


Oral History Online  (Alexander Street Press)
 
This landmark project makes English-language oral histories easily accessible for the first time, giving voice to typically unheard people from all walks of life from around the world. The database provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full text, audio, and video where available. Updated quarterly. Includes the Oral History Top 100 popularity rankings.


PsycINFO  (EBSCOhost)
 
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Full-text for articles linked to EBSCO fulltext databases.


Sage Journals Online  (Sage Publishing)
 
SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. Full text of journal articles is from 1999 – Present for most journals.


Sanborn Maps - Digital 1867-1970  (ProQuest)
 
Large-scale maps of towns and cities in Rhode Island. In electronic form Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.


Theatre in Video with BBC Shakespeare     (Alexander Street Press)
 
Contains more than 250 of the world´ s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, all online in streaming video. From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video offers more than 500 hours of online streaming video, and covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Users can bookmark specific scenes and then include those online links in their papers or course reserves.


WorldCat  (FirstSearch)
 
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.


World Factbook  (Government)

The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of USGovernment officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meettheir specific requirements. Information was provided by the American GeophysicalUnion, Bureau of the Census, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency,Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of State, Foreign Broadcast Information Service,Maritime Administration, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, National MaritimeIntelligence Center, National Science Foundation (Antarctic Sciences Section), Office ofInsular Affairs, US Board on Geographic Names, US Coast Guard, and other public and private sources. --The World Factbook

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