Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia articles, written by subject authorities, provide information useful for gaining a basic understanding of a topic and getting started with a research project. Typically, a bibliography, or list, of "classic" books and articles for further research follows each article. Students will find also these encyclopedias useful for brushing up on topics related to their central area of investigation. 

Encyclopedia of African-American education. Edited by Faustine C. Jones-Wilson [et al.]. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref LC2717 .E53 1996 

Encyclopedia of bilingualism and bilingual education. Edited by Colin Baker and Sylvia Prys Jones. Clevedon ; Philadelphia, PA : Multilingual Matters, c1998.

CALL NUMBER: [q] LC3707 .E53 1998 

Encyclopedia of early childhood education. Edited by Leslie R. Williams, Doris Pronin Fromberg. New York : Garland Pub., 1992.

CALL NUMBER: Ref LB1139.25 .E53 1992 

The Encyclopedia of Education. James W. Guthrie, editor in chief. New York: Macmillan, 2003.

CALL NUMBER: [Ref] LB15 .E47 2003  v.1-8

Encyclopedia of Educational Research. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

CALL NUMBER: Ref LB15.E48 1992 – v. 1-4

The International Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Pergamon Press, 1985.

CALL NUMBER: Ref LB15.I569 1985 – v. 1-10

International Encyclopedia of Higher Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1978.

CALL NUMBER: Ref LB15.I57 1978 – v. 1-10

International Higher Education: an Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1991.

CALL NUMBER: LB15.I59 1991 – v. 1-2

Subject Dictionaries

These specialized subject dictionaries define the terminology in the discipline. See the Research Guides for sources that deal with narrower subfields within the discipline.

Biographical Dictionary of American Educators. Ed. John F. Ohles. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1978.

CALL NUMBER: Ref LA2311 .B54 v.1-3

A Critical Dictionary of Educational Concepts. Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1986.

CALL NUMBER: Ref LB15.B29 1986b

Handbooks

Handbooks collect basic, practical information, formulas, tables of data, classification systems, and definitions for professionals operating within a discipline.

The Educator’s Desk Reference (EDR). Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002

Includes Section E, "Research Purpose, Processes, and Procedures in Education," which offers a good introduction and overview of research design and examples of statistical procedures for all levels of educational researchers.

CALL NUMBER: Ref LB1028.27.U6 F74 2002

Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices. New York: Routledge, 1990.

CALL NUMBER: LB17.H267 1990

Bibliographies

O'Brien, Nancy P.
Education: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. 2nd ed. Englewood, Co.: Libraries Unlimited, 2000. Revised edition of source below.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bib LB15 .B890 2000

Buttlar, Lois, 1934- 
Education : a guide to reference and information sources. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1989. 

CALL NUMBER Ref Bib LB15 .B890 1989 

Sources of Statistics

The library subscribes to the ASI Microfiche Library for federal government publications containing statistical data. Every document indexed in ASI since 1979 is available in this library. In addition to the ASI Microfiche Library, the library also subscribes to the SRI Microfiche Library, containing most but not every nonfederal statistical item indexed in SRI. A third collection, Index to International Statistics, deals with statistical material from international, intergovernmental bodies, completes the package. Online access to the database (and to some of the documents themselves) is available through the Statistical Universe component of Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/

U.S. Department of Education: Research and Statistics
http://www.ed.gov/topics/topics.jsp?&top=Research+%26+Stats

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
http://portal.unesco.org/uis/ev.php?URL_ID=2867&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&
URL_SECTION=201

Directories

Directories identify the professionals, institutions, organizations, and associations within a discipline.

Accredited institutions of postsecondary education, programs, candidates. Edited by Kenneth A. Von Alt. Washington, D.C. : American Council on Education, [1977-].

A directory of accredited institutions, professionally accredited programs, and candidates for accreditation.

CALL NUMBER: Ref L901 .A48 2001-02

American School Directory
http://www.asd.com/
This site provides, for a modest fee, information about K-12 schools. As a minimum, all entries (approximately 104,000) include the following data: school name, address, office phone, principal name, and type of school.

Colleges and Universities: Directory
http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/LIBRARY/refroom/colleges.htm

Directory of American Scholars. Lancaster, Pa. : Science Press, 1942-.

Multi volume, multi-edition series. Each edition devoted to a specific  academic area.

CALL NUMBER: Ref LA2311 .C32 

Directory of public elementary and secondary education agencies. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Center for Education Statistics, [and] Information Services, [1987-]

CALL NUMBER: Ref L901 .E35 1998/1999

Education Resource Organizations Directory
http://bcol02.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/
The Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) contains information on more than 2,700 national, regional, and state education organizations including many associations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education
http://eric.ed.gov/
Temporary site until the new ERIC WEb site opens in September 2004.

Peterson’s Private Secondary Schools
http://www.petersons.com/pschools/index.asp

Citation Guides and Style Manuals

Style manuals and citations guides illustrate how to cite book, journal, and other research sources, including materials found in online databases and on the Web according to the conventional format of a particular discipline. Subject-specific citation guides are listed below, and a complete listing appears at Reference Sites: Citation Guides and Style Manuals.

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources. [ Online ] Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/

Books in Schaffer Library are arranged by Library of Congress Class number. Class numbers are searchable in the Web Catalog and browsable in the Stacks and Reference Collection.

L 7 -991	Education (General)
LA 5 - 2396	History of education
LB 5 -3640	Theory and practice of education
LB 1025 - 1050.7	Teaching (Principles and practices)
LB 1050.9 - 1091	Educational psychology
LB 1501 - 1547	Primary education
LB 1555 - 1602	Elementary or public school education
LB 1603 - 1695	Secondary education. High schools
LB 1705 - 2286	Education and training of teachers
LB 2300 - 2430	Higher education
LB 2801 - 3095	School administration and organization
LC 8 - 6691	Special aspects of education
LD 13 - 7501	Individual institutions: universities, colleges, and schools - United States
LE 3 - 78	- America, except United States
LF 14 - 5477	- Europe
LG 21 - 961	- Asia. Africa. Oceania

The New Acquisitions List  (residing on the Library Catalogs page) is generated on the 10th of each month and includes items added to the library's collections for the previous calendar month.

Microfiche copies of Educational Studies Program Masters theses are maintained in the Library. For details on the Library's theses holdings, formats, access, photocopying restrictions, and searching for a thesis in the online catalog, see the Thesis Search Page.

Research Guides supplement the broader Research by Subject pages by focusing on the print and electronic resources that are most useful for a course specific research assignment. For faculty, the Research Guides provide structured access to the Library and Internet resources relevant to their own work or in advising students on their research projects. For students working independently, it serves as a reminder of services and materials offered within the library while at the same time providing a gateway for information available from remote sites.

Faculty using Blackboard are encouraged to incorporate links to Library resources (specifically the Research by Subject pages and the appropriate course-related Research Guides) into the Blackboard course pages. Your Departmental Liaison or Bibliographic Instruction Contacts can assist you.

Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Follow this link to place an Interlibrary Loan request. There is also a fuller description of the Interlibrary Loan service available.

PLEASE NOTE: You are reminded that it is required to check the Online Catalog (for books) or the two lists of Periodicals Titles  (for journals with articles you need) before ordering on Interlibrary Loan. It will save you considerable time for every reference that you find available here on the shelves or in electronic format.

Direct Access (CDLC) Card
Follow this link (through the Schaffer Library home page) to get further details. The card is obtained at the Circulation Desk.
 

Hours, Directions, and Maps to Local Libraries 
From the above site through the Library's home page, one can conveniently learn the way to travel to nearby libraries, if necessary.

Schaffer Library's hours, procedures, and services 
(and anything else about the Library you need to know...)

Off-campus access
Access to the paid-subscription sources listed is limited to workstations with Union College IP addresses. Therefore, a student wishing to use all the links on this page from off-campus will need to apply at Information Technology Services for an account on the Virtual Private Network.  Such an account enables off-campus users to have full access, even to the paid subscriptions.

Schaffer Library provides a range of general and subject specific electronic databases for access to secondary material. These databases offer full-text access to articles or library holdings information.  The following databases sometimes lead to full-text articles and sometimes are designed to tell you which journals are held here in Schaffer Library. But, some do neither. Therefore, to check whether (and where) a title is to be found in the Library's collections, it is necessary to check both of the Periodical Titles lists on our Web Catalog page. Important: If you are searching from off-campus, see the above Note on Off Campus Access about Virtual Private Network accounts.

In addition to the links above to subject related databases that will lead to article citations and full-text article access, you can also browse the library's comprehensive listing of Electronic Journals and/or Periodical Titles available through Aggregated Databases.  Within the aggregated listing try Subject Headings in Social and Behavioral Sciences.  Both offer basic search options including and, or, not and Title begins with, Title contains, etc. Try entering single terms such as philosophy, philosophical, ethics, or bioethics. Ask at the Reference Desk for assistance with local holdings.

Two services included in the Databases & Indexes section, JSTOR and Project Muse, offer full-text access to journals by discipline. Users can search or browse by category/subject. JSTOR - Education. Project Muse includes Education.

Education World 
http://www.education-world.com/
A comprehensive resource which includes a search engine for thousands of educational resources.

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. Established in 1966, ERIC is supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement and is administered by the National Library of Education (NLE). At the heart of ERIC is the largest education database in the world-containing more than 1 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. The ERIC system, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, provides a variety of services and products that can help you stay up to date on a broad range of education-related issues. Products and services include research syntheses, electronic journals, online directories, reference and referral services, and document delivery.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Education
http://www.csu.edu.au/education/

Tools for tracking recently published articles.

The New York Times: College Education. [ Online ] The New York Times. Available: http://college.nytimes.com/guests/directory/Education/(Accessed 4 May 2004)
Provides full text access to education-related articles from The New York Times "Education" section. Also includes links to related topics such as Assessment and Evaluation, Bilingual Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Research, etc.

The New York Times: Education. [ Online ] The New York Times. Available: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/(Accessed 4 May 2004)
Provides full text access to news articles from The New York Times "Education" section. 

News - U.S. Department of Education
Includes press releases, regulatory materials, reports, educational resources, and more.

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