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Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Coverage: varies. Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
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ERIC This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1966–present. The Educational Resource Information Center contains citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals and ERIC documents (on microfiche and online).
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Coverage: varies. Includes over 1,000 leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. For most JSTOR titles, the most recent years of publication are not covered. If you want the most recent scholarship on a topic, you should probably try another database. However, current issues for selected journals are available on JSTOR as part of the Current Scholarship Program.
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Chronicle of Higher Education Online This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1995–present. Published every weekday, this is a source of news, advice, and jobs for people in academe.
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Journal Finder/Article Linker
When you already have a citation, but you need the full text of the article, you can click on this link to go directly to the Journal Finder/Article Linker. It's the same catalog of full-text journals Colgate has access to that's available from the front page of the library website.
Encyclopedia of Education
2002 ed. Describes the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world, offering a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice.

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ERIC Thesaurus
The ERIC Thesaurus is a list of terms representing research topics in the field of education.