Resources by Subject: "Education"
LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help its users succeed on academic or licensing tests. Includes scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analyses of results.
In order to take the tests, you must register for a personal account. Simply click on the "Register" button under "New User," and then create a personal login and password that you can remember. If logging in from off campus, you must first use your EKU email login/password when prompted, and then you'll need to login with your LearningExpress personalized login and password.
Citation index in the library and information sciences; covers English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, and over 300 books per year
Access is limited to 20 simultaneous users.
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Magazine article summaries and general index for general interest and current events magazines, and general reference sources; includes Magill's Book Reviews, CIA World Factbook, Essential Documents in American History, news weeklies, New York Times, USA Today; school edition, K-12
Index to periodical articles on subjects including general reference, business, health; includes Magill's Book Reviews, CIA World Factbook, Essential Documents in American History, journals, magazines, and newspapers
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Access limited to 4 simultaneous users – please close window when through with session.
Articles, general reference sources, and book reviews for general interest and current events for middle and junior high school students
The New York Times (1851-2007) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Readers' advisory for fiction and nonfiction, and links to other home pages and fiction related web sites; includes reviews and descriptions; reviews from Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus from 1996-
The Picture Book Database guides readers to the best picture books. It includes data about picture books that is difficult to find elsewhere, replacing the need to consult multiple reference books or websites.
Magazine articles, pamphlets and reference sources for elementary schools; includes K-12 magazines, documents of American History database, CIA World Factbook, and other reference sources
Collection of electronic scholarly journals in the humanities and the social sciences
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals. From 1995-present.
TeachingBooks.net adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. The database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
Simultaneously searches 5 databases: Medline, Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Zoological Record.
Access the world's leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes Sciences Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Freely available website that includes records for the holdings (databases, books, journals, sound recordings, videos, etc.) of libraries worldwide.