Mary Livermore Library

Description: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals. Full text for more than 1,060 journals. Full text for 105 books and monographs. Full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

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Description: Indexing and abstracts of scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more from 1966.

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Description: A leading full text source for academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines, PsycARTICLES is published by the American Psychological Association.

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Description: PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

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Description: Education Law in North Carolina is a "plain English" source of information about the federal and state law that affects North Carolina schools and administrators. It contains links to North Carolina case law, statutes, regulations and other valuable legal resources. Education Law in North Carolina is updated annually.

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Description: The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the worlds largest archive of computer readable social science data. ICPSR provides Web access to data files and documentation for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. The ICPSR data holdings contain some 6,300 studies and 500,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse.

Note: ICPSR requires free registration before you can use this resource.

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Description: Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. The full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. This database offers the everyday user the necessary tools and detailed “how-to” instructions to independently address a wide-range of legal issues.

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Description: Library science, information theory, online retrieval, etc. - journal articles
Subject Area(s): Social Sciences, Science & Technology
Coverage: 1969-Current

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Description: Serves as a curriculum terminal from which you can travel to specific goals and objectives based on discipline and grade level. This service provides a convenient way for teachers, administrators, and parents to verify the instructional objectives of the Standard Course of Study at a given grade and subject area.

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Description: An online readers' advisory tool that helps readers find new books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested.

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Description: CSA Physical Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society. Coverage is 1970 to the present, with almost 300,000 records currently in the database.

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Description: Consists of multidisciplinary indexes of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals.

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Description: Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

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Description: Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences from journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.

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Description: RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool that is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. Note: RefWorks requires free registration before you can use this resource.

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