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Databases: Education & Humanities

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Bowker's Books In Print
Description: "Use this database to search for books in and out of print. Over 1.9 million titles retrievable by title, author, subject, publisher, publication date, ISBN, etc."
Curriculum Planning Tool Activities (CPT)
Description: Florida Department of Education - Curriculum Planning Tool Activities (CPT) (activities developed to support instruction in the Sunshine State Standards) The "learning activities were created by Florida teachers for use with the Curriculum Planning Tools." The activities "include classroom, teacher-managed assessment activities, some of which support preparing students for state assessment tests." "Each activity is identified by grade level cluster, subject area and strand, developer, date of inclusion on the web site, and activity title."
EBSCO
Description: "EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries." Username: wsc     Password: First nine digits of Warner barcode number
Education Index®
Description: The goal of Education Index® "is to provide learners and educators with access to the best educational Web sites in a variety of subjects and lifestages. Whether you're researching astronomy or political science, theology or business, parenting or health, we want to provide you with quality resources, quickly. Since it went online in September of 1996, the Education Index has grown to more than 3,000 sites in 66 categories.
Education in Florida (State Department of Education)
Description: Sections in this site include: DOE Directories, Education News and Statistics, Information for Educators, Resources for Teachers, Parents and Teachers, Employment Opportunities, and Teleconference with Teachers.
Education World
Description: Education World (tm) created "a complete online resource guide where educators could start each day to find the lesson plans and research materials they need." The site includes: a search engine for educational Web sites; an information source on the Web with news from USA Today; monthly site reviews and employment listings; an original content source for lesson plans and articles written by education experts. Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.
ERIC – The Education Resources Information Center
Description: ERIC is “sponsored by the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education” and is a bibliographic database of journal and non-journal educational materials with over 1 million citations going back to 1966. A new feature of ERIC is over 100,000 full-text non-journal documents dating from 1993-2004 in .PDF image format now available at no cost. The database contains a Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors (3rd tab at the top on the left hand side) with over 10,000 main headings and cross-references. Users who wish to save and re-run searches may wish to login to My ERIC and complete a free and easy registration form.
Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
Description: This database covers a broad range of academic disciplines. The database provides bibliographic records for articles found in more than 1500 scholarly and general interest journals. It includes full-text coverage for more than 800 titles. Password: First nine digits of Warner barcode number
FLORIDA CAT - All of Florida's Libraries in One Place
Directions for Use: 1. Click the link above for access. 2. Scroll down the page 3. Click the "Guest Access to FloridaCat" button. 4. Search by keyword for books in Florida libraries
G.E.M.: The Gateway to Educational Materials
Description: This site is sponsored by The U.S. Department of Education's National Library of Education and contains 7,051 education resources including quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units, and other educational resources. Users can browse/search keyword or subject lists.
Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac)
Description: Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Password: First nine digits of Warner barcode number
Literary Criticism Collection
Description: The well-known Internet Public Library has been added this new collection to its powerful information lineup. This literary metasite contains over 1,000 annotated metasites and articles devoted to literary criticism, biograhpical, and other information about 123 authors from Dante Alighieri to Arthur Miller to William Butler Yeats. The links to criticism information can be sites or artiles(some of which have access restrictions). Visitors can browse the site by author, title, or literary period (for Britsh and American literature). In addition, both a literary criticism guide and a pathfinder are provided for those who wish to further explore web and print resources on topic.[The Scout Report. May 01, 1998]
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection
Description: The Oxford Refence Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This means an additional 140,000 entries, including 50,000 longer, in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies. Username: wsc     Password: First nine digits of Warner barcode number
Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library
Description: This large site's purpose is to continually add material on the study of humanities, particularly the study of the ancient world and beyond. The site is edited by Gregory Crane (Tufts University) and provides the following sections: an English Index to documents in Perseus; Art and Archaeology (3,000+ pictures); Atlas; Texts and Translations; Text Tools and Lexica; Encyclopedia; Essays and Catalog.
Sunshine State Standards (Florida Dept. of Education)
Description: The Sunshine State Standards Website is divided into the following main catergories: Overview, Questions and Answers, Workforce Developemnt Companion to Sunshine State Standards, Standards by Subject Area (including links to Florida Course Descriptions, Curriculum Services, and The Bureau of Curriculum, Intstruction, and Assessment Home Page), Curriculum Planning Tools, and Learning Activities. There are additional links to Education news, research and statistics, Education reform, and the Education Directory.
Thomason Gale PowerSearch (InfoTrac)
Description: The Thomason Gale PowerSearch is a cross-searchability interface, enabling users to search across multiple Thomson Gale online collections. It simplifies navigation with a "breadcrumb trial" that shows the path the search has taken, letting the user easily return to a previous step. Password: First nine digits of Warner barcode number
Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
Description: A huge guide to online resources in: General Humanities Resources; Anthropology; Archaeology; Architectures; *Art and Art History; * Classical Studies; Cultural Studies; * History; * Legal Studies; Linguistics; *Literature (English); *Literature (Other);* Literary Theory; Media Studies; Minority Studies; Music & Dance; Philosophy; Photography; Politics & Government; Postindustrial Business Theory; Religious Studies; Science; Technology & Culture; Technology of Writing; and Women's Studies.
Writing Resource Center
Description: Contains the APA and MLA Bibliographic Style Example Sheets in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Xreferplus
Description: "Xreferplus is a giant online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of reference books from a total of 169. Xreferplus includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law." Username: wsc     Password: First nine digits of Warner barcode number