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Core Resources
Education Abstracts Full Text
and Education Index Retrospective
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(1929 to present) Indexes over 800 English-language education periodicals, books, and yearbooks; covers the fields of athletics, educational technology, elementary education, higher education, library science, literacy standards, multicultural education, religious education, school administration, special education, teacher education, and student counseling, among others. Includes the full text of some articles from 1996 to present.
ERIC (CSA version)
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(1966 to present) Indexes articles in over 775 journals as well as reports, conference proceedings, and curriculum guides in education and related areas.
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Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(1966 to present) Indexes articles in over 775 journals as well as reports, conference proceedings, and curriculum guides in education and related areas.
Web of Knowledge
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Includes:
  • Web of Science, an index of current and historical journal articles as well as a powerful tool for finding works that have cited a specific author or article
  • ISI Proceedings (1990 to present), an index of over four million conference papers
  • Medline (1950 to present)
  • ... and more
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.

Reference Resources
Gale Virtual Reference Library:
Education Resources
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
Contains the fully-searchable text of the Encyclopedia of Education, the College Blue Book, Scholarships, Fellowships, & Loans, and other electronic, education-related titles in the Davidson College Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library collection.
You can also search the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Brought to you by NCLIVE LearningExpress Library
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Provides practice tests and tutorials. Includes practice tests for graduate school entrance exams (GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT), EMS (EMT-Basic Practice Test, Paramedic Practice Test), Firefighting, Law Enforcement, Real Estate, Teaching (CBEST, PPST: Praxis 1), TOEFL, and U.S. Citizenship, among others. Also includes tutorials on job hunting, interviewing, math skills, reading skills, and writing skills.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Off-Campus access available; no password required.
(Volumes for the years 1995 to present) Provides the full text of this important title, which includes economic and social statistics on the United States. The Statistical Abstracts of the United States is particularly useful as a guide to statistical data generated and published by U.S. Government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Use the index to locate relevant data in each volume.

Other Resources
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(1987 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to health, economics, education, psychology, race relations, social services, and sociology. International in scope.
Chronicle of Higher Education Online
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(Sept. 1989 to present) Contains the full text of current and back issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education as well as daily updates, the annual Almanac, Web extras and updates, and much more.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(1992 to present) Provides the full text of articles from over 130 periodicals, as well as the text of newsletters, reports, pamphlets, fact sheets, and guides on a wide range of gender-related issues.
ebrary
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary.
See also the system requirements for ebrary.
Essay and General Literature Index
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.
JSTOR
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A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
Periodicals Index Online
(formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index)
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(1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope.
Project Muse
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
PsycARTICLES
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(1894 to present) Contains the full text of 59 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. Most APA journals are available from volume 1, issue 1.
Reference Universe
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
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Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books.
Brought to you by NCLIVE WorldCat
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A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries.

Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston, Head of Library Instruction and Collection Development (704-894-2494).