EBSCO's Professional Development Collection

Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals.

ERIC

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC

Identifying Books in the library catalog
(after clicking on library catalog link, you will be directed to the CCA Library Online Catalog)  

To find items on a specific aspect of topics, do a Word search for education and keywords related to your topic. For example:

• Education and “classroom management”
• Education and recruitment
• Education and disabilities

Reference Books

(Available online through the Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Guthrie, James W., Ed. Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 3412 pp. 8 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale. 

Web Sites

Education World

A search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet, with original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts;