New Online SAGE Journal Collection Available

WSU, through the Michigan Library Consortium (MLC), now has full-text online access to 10 discipline-specific SAGE journal collections. Included are SAGE’s Psychology and Education journals.

A full title list is available here: http://www.sagepublications.com/promos/MLC_titles.pdf

You can access the SAGE online collections through the CSA Illumina database platform.
From the library homepage, click the letter “C” under Articles & Databases
Click CSA Illumina in the list.
When you get to CSA Illumina, click the specific databases link
Select the full-text collection you would like to search.

Announcement from the Michigan Library Consortium http://www.mlc.lib.mi.us/cms/sitem.cfm/news__announcements/sage/

New Field Name for searching research in ERIC

For those of you who may have used the search term research and RECORD TYPE as the search type to search for research in the ERIC (FirstSearch) database, the RECORD TYPE field has been removed from ERIC. The field name is now PUBLICATION TYPE.

To search for research articles in ERIC (FirstSearch), use research as your search term, and select PUBLICATION TYPE as your search type.

New Peer Reviewed Search Limit in ERIC

In the ERIC FirstSearch database you can now limit your search to Peer Reviewed journals.


However, ERIC is not retroactively applying the Peer Reviewed field to all citations in its database, so if you use the Peer Reviewed limit, you will only be retrieving materials published after November 2004.

Peer Review is being applied according to the Refereed designations applied in Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory. Although considered an authoritative source on information on periodicals published throughout the world, it is important to remember that Peer Review status is self-reported by the publishers.

Note that if you do not limit your search to Articles while performing a Peer Reviewed limited search, you will get ERIC Documents in your search results. ERIC is also applying the Peer Review designation to ERIC Documents published by NCES and the What Works Clearinghouse after 2004.

Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education From Birth to Adulthood

Education Week has released its annual Quality Counts report. This years report "begins to track state efforts to create a more seamless education system by looking at performance across the various sectors, and at state efforts to define students’ “readiness” to succeed from one stage to the next." The report contains a "Chance-for-Success Index, developed by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, which provides a state-focused perspective on the importance of education throughout a person’s lifetime."

Michigan ranks 25th on the Chance for Success Index.

Happy New Year!

Hello and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a good (and restful) break. I'll have lots of news to share for the coming semester, including changes to ERIC and library resources available through the Blackboard Content System.