LibGuides: Education: Other Resources

Finding Theses & Dissertations

Thesis and dissertation guides
Thesis and dissertation guides available from the University Library.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Humanities + Social Science)
Use ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for online access to full-text dissertations and theses in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

CREDO Reference
Academic encyclopedia and dictionary entries defining and introducing topics in all disciplines.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes core journals, priority journals, and selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

California Department of Education
Data and statistics measuring trends, educational needs, and performance.
United States Department of Education
Data and research reports on all aspects of education.
RAND California
Statistics covering state, county, metropolitan area, and city data including Education.
US Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau website includes population, income, employment, and education statistics.

Calisphere
Explore primary sources contributed by 120 libraries, archives, and museums.

Library of Congress Digital Collections - American History
Historical records on U.S. History arranged by subject from the National Digital Library at Library of Congress. Includes written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music.

Primary Source Sets
Provided by the Digital Public Library of America to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources.
University Library Children's Literature Collection
Includes multicultural and LGBT themed literature.

Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for popular middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains biographies, primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Research database aimed at school-aged populations, with the full-text of over 500 popular/high school magazines, as well as selected biographies, primary sources, photographs, maps and flags.
All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

Lesson Plans
Available from the ERIC database of educational resources.
Teaching
DVDs and videos on teaching from the University Library.
Content Standards and Curriculum Frameworks
Available from the California Department of Education.
Common Core Teaching Resources
Available from the University Library.
Common Core State Standards Resources
Available from the California Department of Education.

Developing a Search Strategy
Tips on searching more efficiently and effectively.
ERIC Documents
Tips on identifying and retrieving non-journal literature using the ERIC database.
Content Standards and Curriculum Frameworks
From the California Department of Education.

Distinguishing Between Scholarly Journals & Popular Periodicals (CSU, Stanislaus)
Review the differences between scholarly and popular journals. Also includes a short tutorial on finding scholarly journals in a database. [PDF]

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