World Journal of Education available in Academic OneFile

World Journal of Education was recently added in full-text to the Academic OneFile database. Sciedu Press, which produces this new journal, is a division of the Canadian Center of Science and Education.

New Journals Available through JSTOR

New Journals have been added to JSTOR. A title that may be of interest to the College of Education is The Journal of Museum Education--through 2007 (3 year moving wall)

Thirty Sources Added to ERIC

The ERIC digital library recently added thirty sources to the collection. Content will become available as it is received from the publishers.

Journals:
• American Educator
• Australian Journal of Indigenous Education
• Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
• Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal)
• Current Research in Social Psychology
• Education in Rural Australia
• IEEE Transactions on Education
• International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership
• International Journal of Learning and Change
• Journal of Adult Education
• Journal of Applied Psychology
• Journal of Creative Behavior
• Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research
• Journal of Research in Character Education
• Journal of Technology Education
• Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
• Pedagogy, Culture & Society
• Personnel Psychology
• Research in Comparative and International Education
• School Social Work Journal
• Science Education International
• TESL-EJ

Grey Literature Sources:
• Horizon Research, Inc.
• Math Solutions
• New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER)
• NZCER Press
• Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
• Teaching and Learning Research Initiative
• Tennessee Higher Education Commission
• Washington State School Directors' Association

From ERIC News. To subscribe, go to http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/resources/html/news/index.html and follow the directions under @ERIC Update

New Education Publications available online through library databases

New full-text titles available through the Academic OneFile database.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (from Information Age Publishing, Inc.)
Distance Learning (from Information Age Publishing, Inc.)
English Language Teaching (from Canadian Center of Science and Education)
International Education Studies (from Canadian Center of Science and Education)
Journal of Research in Character Education (from Information Age Publishing)
Middle Grades Research Journal (from Information Age Publishing, Inc.)
New Teacher Advocate (from Kappa Delta Pi)
Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport/Science, Movement and Health (from Ovidius University of Constanta)
Quarterly Review of Distance Education (from Information Age Publishing, Inc.)

Current Article Abstracts available in JSTOR

You can now search for current articles in the following education publications in JSTOR

Child Development
Educational Researcher
Review of Research in Education

You will need to use the SEARCH FOR ARTICLE article linker button to link to the full-text of articles from these publications from the past 5 years.

New Multicultural Databases at the libraries

See our 3 most recently added library databases: African American Experience, Latino American Experience and American Indian Experience. Each of these has an Education category which covers topics like access to education, discrimination and topics specific to the experience of the group like Brown v. Board of Education, Bilingual Education and Linguistic Genocide. The databases also include access to primary resources, topic guides and K-12 lesson plans which may be used to our TED students.

To access the databases, go to the library homepage and click on Article Databases. You can type in the name of the database, or select the beginning letter of the database name to select and access from the alphabetical list.

To directly access the databases, use the following links:
African American Experience http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=e1000738~S47
Latino American Experience http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=e1000770~S47
American Indian Experience http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=e1000769~S47

Remember that you can directly link these databases in your course Blackboard or website by using the direct links provided above.

New databases available through EbscoHOST

The WSU Library System now provides access to the following databases through EbscoHOST. You can search databases individually by going directly to the appropriate database page under Articles & Databases, or go directly to the EbscoHOST gateway to search mulitple databases simultaneously.

New databases available are:

• Family Studies Abstracts
• Race Relations Abstracts
• Urban Studies Abstracts
• Public Administration Abstracts
• Abstracts in Social Gerontology

These databases include access to journal articles in publications such as: Journal of Social Issues, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Urban Affairs Review, Urban Education, Public Money & Management, Journal of Ageing and Social Policy and International Psychogeriatrics.

Use the Sign in to my EbscoHOST link to create your own account in any of the EbscoHOST databases, and you can save searches, create search alerts, save search results, and more.

New Education Database available October 1

Educators' Reference Complete from GALE will be available through the WSU Library System and the Michigan Electronic Library (MEL) beginning October 1.

With more than 1,100 periodicals that cover a wide variety of subjects and 200 reports from the United States Department of Education, the Educator’s Reference Complete is an important tool for today’s educator. In addition, Educator’s Reference Complete is the perfect complement for any library that utilizes the ERIC database, because it provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC. (from Thomson-Gale promotional literature)

Look for a link to this database on October 1, on the library's website under the letter E!

Historical Newspaper database test

The WSU Library System is currently testing a comprehensive 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, which provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects.

If you would like to test this database, please contact Veronica Bielat , Education Liaison Librarian, for the URL and test password.

2006 Data now available from ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

2006 data are now available for Journal Citation Reports® on the Web. You can use JCR Reports to determine impacts factors, citations half-life, and more for many scholarly journals in the Social Sciences. This resource is made available to you through the Wayne State University Libraries.