Lamar Memorial Library: Education and Teacher Licensure Resources: Databases/Search Engines

Maryville College Databases

Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews offers comprehensive, critical reviews of research written by leading scientists in the disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the #1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
Educator's Reference Complete
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
ERIC (EDRS Service)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
The Gale Virtual Reference Library consists of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Use this database to find articles on a wide range of health and wellness topics. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Health Reference Center Academic
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on a wide range of health and wellness topics. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching is a peer-reviewed journal published at Miami University by and for faculty at universities and two- and four-year colleges to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among faculty about their classroom experiences.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a collection of full-text articles and eBooks from scholarly publishers in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences, and Mathematics.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Professional Collection for Teachers/Educators
Articles from more than 300 full-text periodicals covering a variety of topics for teachers/educators, including: health and fitness, school law, drug and alcohol abuse, learning disabilities, sports, arts and humanities, social sciences, and psychology.
PsycArticles
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 153,000 articles from over 80 journals published by the APA.
Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection
This database provides coverage of more than 400 full text journals, including peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection AND PsycInfo AND PsycArticles
Search the Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection, PsycInfo, and PsycArticles databases at the same time!
Psychology Collection
This set explores what makes people 'tick' from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association, contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as 1840.
SPORTDiscus
Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines.

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Scholarly Search Engines

WorldCat
WorldCat allows researchers to search the combined catalogs of hundreds of libraries around the world. It contains more than 1.4 billion records for books, journals, audiovisual materials and more.

FDsys: Government Printing Office Federal Digital System
FDsys provides free online access to official Federal Government publications. FDsys has several options for searching through its vast collection of documents (keyword search, collection search, and browsing).
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com
Internet Public Library

Google Books

Browse books online
If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy. Learn more about the different views.

If you find a book that you need, check MC Quest to see if the Library has the book available. If not, you can request the book through interlibrary loan.