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A comprehensive reference source on education. The fully revised edition offers a complete view of the institutions, people, processes, roles and philosophies found in educational practice in the United States and throughout the world. Features include 121 biographies of influential educators; profiles of historic colleges and universities; profiles of organizations active in the field; and an appendix of full text primary source documents including education related legislation, international treaties and testing methods.

A reference source providing an overview of knowledge about biological and psychological aspects of learning and memory, along with biographies of key individuals, descriptions of various theories, and information about disorders of learning and memory. The second edition features new articles and article updates that capture advances in the ever-changing fields of memory, neuroscience, and cognition.

A country-by-country survey of educational systems providing detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. Appendixes include comparative data and country maps. This updated and expanded edition gives users up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and high-interest topics such as technological advances

The Online Books Page provides access to over 40,000 books that are freely available on the internet. The site includes several featured collections such as Celebration of Women Writers, Banned Books Online and Prize Winners Online. It also lists freely accessible:
Archives of serials (such as magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals)
Major sources and indexes of free online texts (such as Google Books, University of Michigan Digital General Collection, Universal Digital Library Repository, etc…)

Information for scholars wishing to publish, such as manuscript and publication guidelines, review process acceptance rate, time required for review. Cabell. Current.

Online edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education with updates on grant opportunities, job announcements, forums and other services. 1989-

The Education Research Global Observatory is a project of the Scholarly Communications Unit of the Center for Educational Research for Global Sustainability at Arizona State University. The project intends to maintain a directory of current open access peer reviewed journals in the field of education. The directory was initiated by AERA SIG Communication.

Covers indexing of 200 Arabic academic journals (many in full-text) and conference papers in the field of education and social sciences. 1950-

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The world's largest database of education literature that contains citations for journal articles from 1085 journals, books, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, dissertations, theses and other. Offers a continually expanding collection of full text educational documents (i.e. ED numbers). IES, U.S. Department of Education.1966-

Indexing for more than 2000 journals, 98% of which are peer-reviewed. Full-text articles from the 58 journals published by the American Psychological Association. APA.1806-

Search limits allow users to limit their results to those with full text, those that come from peer-reviewed sources, by published date, those with images, and more.
Free from Ebsco.

It includes information on schools and universities. Features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations.

A multidisciplinary database containing full text of nearly 3000 journals and magazines. Gale. 1980s-

Organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including teaching and study materials

Includes over 40,000 educational resources and 3,000 internet links.

"FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by contributing federal agencies."

Known also as GEM: (Gateway to Educational Materials)
Open to all under the sponorship of the U.S. Department of Education.

"Online laboratories (iLabs) are experimental facilities that can be accessed through the Internet, allowing students and educators to carry out experiments from anywhere at any time. Remote labs enrich science and engineering education by vastly increasing the scope of experiments that students have access to in the course of their academic careers. Prepares teachers to integrate iLABs in a range of science courses (including AP courses), encouraging them to go beyond the current paradigm of cookbook science labs with outdated or inappropriate equipment.”

(IPL) and the Librarians Internet Index (LII) merged. features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines;

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, this site offers hundreds of collections of digitized material about math and science, intended to enhance science education at all levels.

The site includes cross-searching of 30 databases as well as links to science pages contributed by 12 federal agencies.

Provided by Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), this site allows users to freely access thousands of abstracts and full-text research papers.

"The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings."

Created in 1995 by Alan Liu, a professor in the English
department at the University of California, Santa
Barbara.

An index to several Virtual Library pages related to biology, with links to biodiversity and ecology, biotechnology, botany, cell biology, medicine, zoology, and more.

A freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.

including psychology, neuroscience and linguistics plus some areas of computer science, philosophy and biology, as pertinent to cognition.Instructions for submitting your own paper to CogPrints.

Education Line is a repository focusing on education, where authors can present early versions of their work, e.g. reports, working papers, conference papers and speeches. It received JISC funding from its launch in 1997 through to January 2000. Instructions are available for submitting your own paper.

From Creative Commons: "ODEPO is wiki-database of organizations involved in providing educational content online."
Currently, ODEPO includes 1176 sites affiliated with various organizations, the majority of which were provided to us by educational repositories involved in the creation and expansion of Open Educational Resources (OER).