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Education databases

Academic Search Premier   (EBSCOhost)
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 8,000 scholarly journals and popular magazines covering all academic subjects. The full-text is available for about 4,700 periodicals (3,600 peer-reviewed).
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965; some current issues embargoed for several months

Dissertation Abstracts   (OCLC FirstSearch)
Indexes and abstracts dissertations and masters theses in all academic fields.
Coverage:  indexing 1861-;abstracts 1980-;abstracts for theses 1988-

eLibrary   (ProQuest)
Designed for the secondary school library, eLibrary includes full-text from newspapers, magazines, and books, as well as maps, other graphics, sound recordings, videos, and radio and television transcripts.
[This database is provided jointly by the Washington State Library and the O'Grady Library, and is funded in part with federal Library Services and Technology Act funds.]

ERIC   (EBSCOhost)
Indexes journal articles, books, theses, conference proceedings and unpublished reports in education. Citations have direct links to the full-text of ERIC documents in the public ERIC Database and, when available, to the full-text of journal articles in Academic Search Premier.
Coverage:  1966 to present

ERIC   (OCLC FirstSearch)
Indexes journal articles, books, theses, conference proceedings and unpublished reports in education. Citations have direct links to full-text of ERIC documents in the public ERIC Database.
Coverage:  1966 to present

ERIC   (Education Resources Information Center)
Public access to the Department of Education sponsored ERIC database, including the full-text of non-journal ERIC documents from 1993-date.
Coverage:  1966 to present

MAS Ultra -- School Edition   (EBSCOhost)
Designed for secondary school libraries, this database provides the full-text of articles from over 550 general interest and current events magazines, as well as biographies, primary source documents, pamphlets, and reference books. There is also an image collection of over 100,000 photos, maps & flags.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1985

Middle Search Plus   (EBSCOhost)
Designed for middle school libraries, this database provides the full-text of articles from over 150 magazines, as well as over 80,000 biographies, over 90,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of over 100,000 photos, maps & flags.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1984

Primary Search   (EBSCOhost)
Designed for elementary school libraries, this database provides the full-text of articles from over 60 children's magazines as well as the full-text of the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, and American Heritage Children’s Dictionary.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text 1989 to present; some abstracting and indexing 1984 to present

Professional Development Collection   (EBSCOhost)
Subset of education journals in Academic Search Premier. Includes indexing and abstracts for over 900 periodicals, full-text for over 550 titles (350 peer-reviewed), and full-text of over 200 educational reports.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection   (EBSCOhost)
Subset of psychology and behavioral sciences journals in Academic Search Premier. Includes full-text for over 550 periodicals (500 peer-reviewed).
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965

PsycINFO   (EBSCOhost)
American Psychological Association's index to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields. When available, citations have direct links to full-text in Academic Search Premier.
Coverage:  1887 to present

Research Library   (ProQuest)
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 2600 journals, magazines, and newspapers covering all academic subjects. Full-text for over 1,700 journals is available.
[This database is provided jointly by the Washington State Library and the O'Grady Library, and is funded in part with federal Library Services and Technology Act funds.]
Coverage:  varies with journal; full-text 1986 to present; indexing 1971 to present

WorldCat -- the OCLC Online Union Catalog   (OCLC FirstSearch)
Online catalog of books, web sites, video recordings, sound recordings, and other materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide.
Coverage:  1000 BCE to present