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The Teaching of Science, TPRP294
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Catalogs are some of the primary discovery tools in a library. A local catalog (such as Orbis) enables a library user to determine what items are in a library's collection and where those items are housed. Another type of catalog is a union catalog. A union catalog is a "catalog of catalogs" and contains library holdings information for all the libraries (academic, public and private) that contribute information to the union catalog.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Other Selected Resources Dictionaries are monographs that define individual words of a language so as to set forth their orthography, pronunciation, signification, and use, their synonyms, deviation, and history among other facts. Dictionaries can be general or subject specific. Encyclopedias are works that contain information on all branches of knowledge or treat comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge, usually in articles arranged alphabetically by subject. Both types of reference materials provide ideas for developing a search term list and strategy. Indexes, such as periodical indexes, allow you to search for articles or subject specific materials published in a periodical, journal title, or other bibliographic resources. Some of the indexes listed here also permit the retrieval of the full text of a given article. Please note that an index and a catalog are not the same type of discovery tool. A catalog allows you to determine if a resource is part of a library's collection. An index allows you to search for a specific article, book chapter, etc. within a periodical, journal title, or other resource. A sample of additional library resources, such as electronic journals and interlibrary loan/document delivery services. Science materials including reference resources, electronic journals, indexes and databases. A collection of useful web sites devoted to science curriculum. A collection of resources that are useful tools for paper composition. CRL - Center for Research Libraries Catalog The CRL Catalog is the online catalog of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. Its primary purpose is to collect those research materials not targeted by the North American research institutions. The Center collects heavily in the follow materials: archival materials, newspapers and periodicals (foreign & domestic, specialized), foreign doctoral dissertations, U.S. state documents, USSR Academic publications. The Center collects broadly in the following geographic regions: Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. In addition, the Center collects any category of material, from any geographic locale, which is deemed important to scholarly research, but has not been acquired by other institutions. All resources in the CRL Catalog are available to Yale University faculty, staff, and students through Interlibrary Loan. EUREKA offers easy-to-use online access to a wide array of databases, including the Research Libraries Group's RLIN bibliographic database of more than 22 million titles. Use EUREKA to uncover a wealth of resources in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections. EUREKA provides catalog records for books, journals, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you.
Orbis, the Yale University Library's online public access catalog, contains entries for titles the Library has acquired. Orbis provides circulation information for all items as well as holdings information for most journal titles. For help using Orbis, see the Guide to Using Orbis.
WorldCat is the Online Computer Library Center's (OCLC) online "union catalog"; that is, its database of over 50 million records of books and other materials held in thousands of academic, public, special and national libraries around the world. Use WorldCat to locate materials outside of Yale, in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections. WorldCat provides catalog records for books, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you.
Britannica Online includes the following:
Britannica.com is a free knowledge and learning center for current affairs. Users can simultaneously search the encyclopedia, reviews of the Web sites, articles from leading magazines, and related books. Britannica.com includes the complete, updated Encyclopædia Britannica, selected articles from more than 70 of the world's top magazines--including Newsweek, Discover, and The Economist, a guide to the Web sites includes more than 125,000 sites, and you can also search the text of more than 100 million Web pages to find more information. Educators Resource Directory provides access to a compilation of educational resources and tables and charts of education statistics and rankings. Section I contains contact information for resources that provide tools for classroom and career management. Section II contains tables and charts in nine categories such as average teacher salaries, SAT/ACT scores, enrollment, state regulations, revenues and expenditures, federal programs for education and learning resources and technology concerning career development decisions, fiscal health and education scores.
Online General Reference Resources At the Online General Reference Resources page, find a gateway to many of Yale University Library's ready reference materials such as language dictionaries, fast facts, biographies, and encyclopedias.
The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press) is in an online version which enables the full text of the Dictionary to be searched in a way impossible in the printed version, and which allows updates more rapidly and more frequently than ever before. Language is constantly evolving, and there has been a great proliferation of new words and meanings in English throughout the world since the original publication of the OED between 1884 and 1928. Now, for the first time ever, the Dictionary is being completely revised. Every one of the 250,000 entries is being updated, and many more will be added during the course of this unprecedented revision programme, which is expected to double the length of the text. Draft versions of new and revised entries from the revision programme will be added to OED Online at quarterly intervals, with each revised entry being linked to the Second Edition version for comparison. The first batch of new and revised entries contains just over 1000 entries, running from the letter M to the word mahurat.
The Core Collection brings together over 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press into a single cross-searchable resource. Containing over 2 million dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places, dates, and quotations, Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection is unique in offering integrated, consistent content from general reference, language, humanities, social sciences, medical, scientific, and professional one-volume works. This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This updated and expanded edition gives users up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and high-interest topics such as technological advances.
A list of selected print resources for Education held by Yale University Library. Thesaurus.com provides a hypertext version of Roget's Thesaurus.
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including more than 2,700 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. American Men & Women of Science American Men & Women of Science : A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences is a biographical dictionary of the significant scientists in the physical, biological and related sciences. The 21st edition includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists, providing birth date; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses for each entrant where available. First compiled in 1906, this highly regarded source has profiled the careers of more than 300,000 scientists and engineers. Children's Literature Database Comprehensive The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers 900,000 MARC records and more than 200,000 reviews of children's books, all full text searchable from 22 sources of critical reviews. Materials covered include children's books, ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. An average of more than 1,500 new reviews are added to the database monthly. In addition, CLCD presently contains more than 900,000 catalog records in MARC format that have children's headings assigned including data, subject terms, and annotations. MIT CogNet is an electronic community for the cognitive and brain sciences. CogNet brings together current and classic resources in the field and provides services and utilities to enhance research, collaboration and teaching. Full texts of major references works include The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. Also included is 400 searchable full text books from MIT Press as well as full text of MIT Press Journals in the field of cognitive and brain sciences. Also includes database access to bibliographic and some abstract information for books, journals, reference works, conference proceedings and grey literature in the field. Users from Yale IP addresses are automatically identified as Yale Guests and have full access to CogNet resources. A user may choose to register in order to create a Curriculum Vitae, bibliography, and notification settings. In the CogNet Library, the full texts of all books and MIT journals are available. For journals not affiliated with MIT, only the abstracts are available for free. Current Contents Connect database provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of the world's leading scholarly research journals and books in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Cover-to-cover indexing of journal articles, book reviews, meeting abstracts, editorials, etc., is provided for more than 8000 international journals covering nearly 200 disciplines. Complete bibliographic information, including English-language author abstracts (for approximately 85% of articles and reviews in the science editions), author keywords, KeyWords Plus ®, and ISSNs are provided. Email alerts for articles matching saved search strategies are available. Ebrary is a collection of thousands of online full text books in a variety of subject areas. Full text content can be viewed and searched online and printed without charge after installing the ebrary Reader. You can also bookmark sections of the book, copy and paste text, and save sections for later reading if you have a free Ebrary account. Ebrary contains books from many academic and trade publishers in every subject.
Education Full Text, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Subject coverage includes: preschool, elementary, secondary, and higher education; special and vocational education; comparative and multicultural education; adult and continuing education; computer technology; teacher education, evaluation, and methods; school administration and parent-teacher relations; and issues such as government funding and prayer in the schools. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
ENC Online is an online clearinghouse of education research, news, and curriculum material on mathematics and science topics.
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC encompasses the world’s largest and most frequently searched education database. It contains more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. ERIC documents are available on microfiche in the Sterling Memorial Library Microtext Center.
GEM - The Gateway to Educational Materials "The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Teachers, parents, administrators can search or browse The GatewaySM and find thousands of high quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and projects from over 320 of the 518 GEM Consortium members." -GEM Webpage iCONN, Connecticut Digital Library provides access to a wide selection of information databases and other electronic resources such as InfoTrac One File, General Reference Center GOLD, Expanded Academic Index, Business & Company Resource Center, and Health & Wellness Resource Center, to support the educational, cultural, personal and economic interests of Connecticut citizens.
The Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online, or kcdlonline, is a searchable database that provides curriculum information and indexing on a variety of subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. With a growing database of nearly 5,000 curriculum documents, kcdlonline provides a direct link to the curricula and contact information on the agencies that issue the curricula (5th edition materials). Older materials are indexed in the KCDL index. Additional database contents include frameworks, and standards from all across the English-speaking world, lessons and learning activities, educational objectives, educational content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques. The Krauss Curriculum Development Library Online is updated monthly and can be searched for specific curricula by subject, keywords, forms of educational content, grades covered, and geographic locale. KCDL enables you to draw upon a wide selection of developed curricula for use in improving your existing curricula or in creating new frameworks and standards.
Searches, at the table level, U.S. Federal Government (1974-present), international intergovernmental (1983-present), state government and privately published documents (1981-present) that contain statistics. Default screen searches the "Power Tables" (full text of the most frequently requested statistics). A second method of retrieval is by searching the abstracts. You can limit search by subject, title, agency, and author; and/or to a particular collection, by geography, demography or commodity, and/or by date. Some of the publications are available full text and you can limit your search to those. Some of the tables are also available for exporting into a spreadsheet. The Government Documents and Information Center's collection contain the full text of most of the publications indexed in Statistical Universe on microfiche. PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed. PCI Web currently indexes over eleven million journal articles in 3,536 journals. Every year, it adds records for more than one million new articles. It will grow to encompass over 5,000 journals and 20 million individual articles. Recently the scope of new journals has been extended to 1995, and existing journals will be updated in the near future.
The PsycINFO ® database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1300 journals and dissertations in more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Full Text Readers' Guide Full Text and Readers' Guide Retrospective together offer comprehensive indexing and abstracting of some 375 of the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada since 1890, plus the full text of over 120 of those periodicals from 1994 - present. They cover news, current events, and all subject areas, including business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science. The abstracts average 125 words in length. Two types of abstracts are included. Informative abstracts convey the content, scope, and complexity of the source article, and are the predominant form used. Indicative abstracts describe the subject of the source article and are reserved for how to articles, humorous essays, personal accounts, and recipes. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.
SourceOECD includes publications - monographs, periodicals, and statistical databases - issued by the OECD. Arranged in 3 sections: studies by theme, periodicals, and statistics, this resource contains monographs and serials on topics such as: agriculture & food; education & skills; emerging economics; employment; energy; enterprise, industry & trade; environment & sustainable development; finance & investment; general economics & future studies; governance; international development; nuclear energy; science & information technology; social issues & migration; statistics sources & methods; taxation; territorial economy; transition economics; transport and more.
United States Department of Education Cross-Site Index
Web of Science contains more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references from the world's most influential research with online backfiles access now completely matching the print editions:
"The What Works Clearinghouse was established by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to provide educators, policymakers, and the public with a central, independent, and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education. It is administered by the Department through a contract to a joint venture of the American Institutes for Research and the Campbell Collaboration." As this Clearinghouse is new, topic coverage is in process.
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services Yale Library's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery Services helps to provide access to library collections, both at Yale and around the world. Search the Online Journals Database for access to electronic education journals or find full-text for a citation you already have by using our SFX citation linker.
An access point to Yale University Libraries' science electronic journals. Science Subject Specific Content Guides Subject materials by science discipline including reference materials, indexes, and databases.
Selected Internet Resources for Teachers of Science A selection of web sites containing a wealth of information for practicing and prospective science teachers.
The American Psychological Association has established an editorial style that it uses in all of the books and journals that it publishes. Many others working in the social and behavioral sciences have adopted this style as their standard as well. See the print guide for complete information on the APA Editorial Standard, Publication Manual of the American Psychology Association
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Location: Social Science Library, Reference APA Reference Style: tightening up your citations A comprehensive guide which summarizes APA style, the set of specific formatting conventions sanctioned by the American Psychological Association. Note: This guide currently represents the fourth edition of APA style. Consult the print guide for current information. APA Samples for a Bibliography Samples of bibliographic citations created according to the APA style manual. This site contains links to APA style guides and help sheets on the Internet. Students may also wish to look into Carol J. Amato's book, The World's Easiest Guide to Using the APA, copyright 1995 by Stargazer Publishing Company. Columbia Online Style: MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources Janice Walker's guide for citing online resources. A guide which summarizes the material available in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. With RefWorks users can create their own personal research database of citations to books, journal articles, and web pages, by importing references from online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. Citations initially captured with RefWorks can subsequently be exported to other citation programs, such as Endnote, Procite, or Reference Manager. As a web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various platforms including Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. Citations imported into RefWorks will display with Yale SFX links. These links will lead to electronic full text (when available) along with other library services, such as Interlibrary Loan. Other Citation Styles
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