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* Books cover older material, such as theories of education and good educational practice.
* Browse the Library's reference stacks and general book collection under the call number L.
* For juvenile books, see the Juvenile Collection on Level 3.
* Journal articles and ERIC documents contain more in-depth research and current issues
* ERIC Documents 
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ERIC 
*provides full text for thousands of digests
* lists citations and short summaries of education journal articles and documents, many which contain links to full-text
* covers education topics
* covers items published from 1966 to the present
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Education Full Text 
*lists citations, summaries, and full-text of journal articles and books
*covers education topics 
*covers items published from 1983, summaries since 1994, and full-text since 1996
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Academic Search Premier
* contains indexing for 8,200 publications
* contains full text for more than 4,650 titles
* PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over 100 journals
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Mental Measurements Yearbook
*contains information about and reviews of English-language standardized tests 
*covers education and psychology 
*covers tests reviewed from 1985 to present
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Dissertations and Theses
* Dissertations and Theses is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master’s theses
* Overall dates of coverage: 1861 - present
* Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.

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Cabell's Directory of Publishing Information (Education Set)
HELP: Helps professors, graduate students and researchers to publish their manuscripts
HELP:  Lists the type of review process, acceptance rate and number of external reviewers for most education publications
HELP: Three areas of specialization are covered: Educational Curriculum and Methods, Educational Psychology and Administration, and Educational Technology & Library Science
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Reference and Fact-finding Sources
HELP:Oxford Reference Online: dictionaries, encyclopedias, and guides covering all subjects
HELP:Encyclopedia Britannica: full encyclopedia plus web sites
HELP:Gale Virtual Reference Library: dictionaries, encyclopedias, and guides covering all subjects.  For a list of titles available at APSU, click here.
HELP:netLibrary Reference Center: dictionaries, encyclopedias, and guides covering all subjects
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Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
HELP:contains basic information about journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. 
HELP:used to identify periodicals in a field
HELP:information is updated weekly
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