Selected Databases

• Education Database

  Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011

  Citations for over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Image articles include charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphics. (All fulltext)

• Education Research Complete

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Education Research Complete is a full-featured online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers. (All fulltext)

• ERIC (EBSCO)

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. (Some fulltext)

• Explora - Educator's Edition

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Teacher based resources for Explora databases. (All fulltext)

• Explora - Primary School Search

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Supports both student research and classroom instruction with text-to-speech, reading level indicators, and curriculum standard modules for the primary levels. (All fulltext)

• Explora - Secondary School Search

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Supports both student research and classroom instruction with text-to-speech, reading level indicators, and curriculum standard modules for the secondary levels. (All fulltext)

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains images, brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. (All fulltext)

• Primary Search

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Contains full text for nearly 70 popular elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator. Includes indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary and a collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. (Some fulltext)

• Professional Development Collection

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles and contains more than 200 educational reports. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965. (Some fulltext)

• Teaching Books.net

  Service = TeachingBooks.net LLC

  TeachingBooks.net provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators and a wealth of multimedia resources on K-12 books that generate enthusiasm for books and reading. (You do not need to login to this page if you are an Olivet student or employee. Just begin your search.) (Multimedia)

Selected eBooks

• Encyclopedia of Education

  Service = Cengage Learning

  Approximately 900 articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice within the United States and throughout the world. (All fulltext)

• Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Access limited to 1 user at a time. This influential book describes the knowledge and skills educators need to recognize and combat the bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty. This edition features revisions based on new research and lessons from the author's professional development work, including the dangers of "grit" and deficit perspectives --taken from publisher website. (All fulltext)

Selected eJournals

• American Educational Research Journal

  Service = SAGE Publications, Inc.

  The American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) is the flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association, featuring articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education and learning. It publishes original peer-reviewed analyses that span the field of education research across all subfields and disciplines and all levels of analysis. It also encourages submissions across all levels of education throughout the life span and all forms of learning. AERJ welcomes submissions of the highest quality, reflecting a wide range of perspectives, topics, contexts, and methods, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• Foreign Language Annals

  Service = EBSCOnet (ejournals)

  Dedicated to the advancement of language teaching and learning, the journal seeks to serve the professional interests of classroom instructors, researchers, and administrators who are concerned with the learning and teaching of languages, particularly languages other than English at all levels of instruction. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

  Service = EBSCOnet (ejournals)

  The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy highlights innovative, peer-reviewed, research-based practices aimed at improving engagement and achievement among literacy learners ages 12 and older. -- taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• Journal of Latinos & Education

  Service = EBSCOnet (ejournals)

  The Journal of Latinos and Education (JLE) provides a cross-, multi-, and interdisciplinary forum for scholars and writers from diverse disciplines who share a common interest in the analysis, discussion, critique, and dissemination of educational issues that impact Latinos. --taken from publisher (All fulltext)

• Journal of Research in Childhood Education

  Service = Taylor & Francis Online

  The Journal of Research in Childhood Education , a publication of the Association for Childhood Education International, features articles that advance knowledge and theory of the education of children, infancy through early adolescence. (All fulltext)

• Journal of Teacher Education

  Service = SAGE Publications, Inc.

  The mission of the Journal of Teacher Education, the flagship journal of AACTE, is to serve as a research forum for a diverse group of scholars invested in the preparation and continued support of teachers who can have a significant voice in discussions and decision-making. Issues covered include preparing teachers to effectively address the needs of marginalized youth; program design and impact; local and national policy; and accountability. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• Mathematics Teacher

  Service = EBSCOnet (ejournals)

  End date of May 2019: The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education programs. It provides a forum for sharing activities and pedagogical strategies, deepening understanding of mathematical ideas, and linking mathematics education research to practice. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• Reading Research Quarterly

  Service = EBSCOnet (ejournals)

  Reading Research Quarterly is the leading global journal offering multidisciplinary scholarship on literacy among learners of all ages, including the latest research studies (methods, results, effects, findings, and implications). Taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• Reading Teacher

  Service = EBSCOnet (ejournals)

  The Reading Teacher (RT) provides the latest peer-reviewed, research-based best practices to literacy educators working with children up to age 12. RT’s classroom-ready articles cover topics from curriculum, instruction, and assessment to strategies for teaching diverse populations of literacy learners. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• Review of Educational Research

  Service = SAGE Publications, Inc.

  The Review of Educational Research (RER) publishes critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education, including conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of literature and scholarly work in a field broadly relevant to education and educational research. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• Science in Schools: European Journal for Science Teachers

  Service = EIROforum

  The contents include teaching materials and projects in science education, up-to-date information on cutting-edge science, interviews with inspiring scientists and teachers, reviews of books and other resources, and many other useful resources for science teachers. -from publication (All fulltext)

• Social Studies

  Service = EBSCOnet (ejournals)

  The Social Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles of interest to educators at all levels. Suitable topics include those concerned with the social studies, the social sciences, history, and interdisciplinary studies. The journal welcomes articles that present new directions, options, or approaches. The Social Studies considers for publication articles that deal with the following: Curriculum: what shall we teach and how shall we teach it?; Learning: conditions under which cognitive, affective, and participatory learning takes place; Historical and social science ideas: how shall we apply them in the classroom?; Perspectives on social studies: emerging topics and controversial issues; Topics of current interest: global issues; gender and ethnicity; the use of technology; higher-order critical thinking; peace education and conflict management; multicultural social studies curriculum; thematic instruction; and reading and writing in the social studies classroom. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• Teaching Children Mathematics

  Service = EBSCOnet (ejournals)

  Teaching Children Mathematics (TCM) is an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for elementary school students, teachers, and teacher educators. The focus of the journal is on intuitive, exploratory investigations that use informal reasoning to help students develop a strong conceptual basis that leads to greater mathematical abstraction. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)

• The Elementary School Journal

  Service = EBSCOnet (ejournals)

  The Elementary School Journal has served researchers, teacher educators, and practitioners in the elementary and middle school education for over one hundred years. ESJ publishes peer-reviewed articles dealing with both education theory and research and their implications for teaching practice. In addition, ESJ presents articles that relate the latest research in child development, cognitive psychology, and sociology to school learning and teaching. ESJ prefers to publish original studies that contain data about school and classroom processes in elementary or middle schools while occasionally publishing integrative research reviews and in-depth conceptual analyses of schooling. (All fulltext)