Advanced Book Exchange
is the world's largest source of out of print books, listing 16 million
titles from more than 5,000 booksellers.
Argus Clearinghouse
provides ratings of Web sites with resources in various fields, including
education.
Association of American University
Presses allows a combined search of the catalogues of 60 university
presses with 75,000 books in print. It also has links to the Web
sites of 40 publishers of scholarly books.
Associations Unlimited provides brief information on almost a
half million associations world-wide, and links to the Web sites of 2,600
major national associations. [Proprietary database. GWU students
must access it through the GWU Gelman Library site: From its home page,
click “Databases”, then “Aladin Article and Other Databases.” Select “Alphabetical
List,” and click “Associations Unlimited”].
Bowker Books In Print is the definitive guide to English language
books currently being offered by publishers in the United States and Great
Britain. [Proprietary database. GWU students must
access it through the GWU Gelman Library site: From its home page, click
“Databases”, then “Aladin Article and Other Databases.” Select “Alphabetical
List,” and click “Books In Print”. Please note that the database
covers from 1995 to July 2000. To access data after July 2000, click
“Change Database” and select “Bowker Publishing Authority Database”].
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) is a government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services,
and activities.
Education Internet
Resources provides links to hundreds of Web sites related to education
and training.
Education Resource
Organizations Directory (EROD) allows searches of organizations
with interests in education.
Eldis is
a gateway to Web sites with information on and for developing countries.
FirstSearch is an online reference system to several databases
and provides access to electronic and traditional materials from libraries
around the world and full text and full image documents from academic and
professional journals. [Proprietary database. GWU students
must access it through the GWU Gelman Library site: From its home page,
click “Databases”, then “Aladin Article and Other Databases.” Select “Alphabetical
List,” and click “FirstSearch Standard” or “FirstSearch Extended”].
Gateway To Educational Materials
on the Web provides access to lesson plans, curriculum units, and
other resources for teachers.
Gelman Library Internet Resources Arranged by Subject provides
links specifically developed for the Graduate School of Education and Human
Development. From the Gelman home page, click on “Research Guides”
from the toolbar. Select “Social Sciences” and click on “Counseling”,
“Education Leadership”, “Human Resource Development”, “Teacher Preparation
or “Special Education”.
GOVBOT searches
more than 1 million Web pages from U.S. Government and Web sites around
the country.
History
of Education and Childhood provides links to many other sites with
historical information related to children, youth, and education.
Library of Congress is the
largest physical library in the world, with more than 12 million books,
journals, maps, etc. In August, 1999, it implemented long needed
improvements in the electronic search system.
National Center for Education Statistics
has the major responsibility for collecting national education statistics
in the United States. Its “Digest of Education Statistics” has longitudinal
data series and is available in full text online.
Official
Federal Government Web Sites of the Executive Branch is an organized
directory of Executive Branch government Web sites. It also has links
(near the top) to comparable directories of the Federal legislative and
judicial Web sites.
Ovid is a database interface to which Gelman and members of the
Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) subscribes. It is initially
accessed through the individual databases in its domain, such as ERIC,
Bowker
Books in Print, PsycINFO, and PAIS International.
It allows for one search template for 36 databases, including those listed
above, and a simultaneous keyword, author, title, or journal search for
up to five databases. In addition, Ovid has its own database of journals
in full text called “Journals@ Ovid Full Text”. [GWU students can
access it through the GWU Gelman Library site: from its home page, click
“Databases”, then “Aladin Article and Other Databases.” Select “Alphabetical
List,” and click “ERIC”, “Books in Print”, “PsycINFO”, or “PAIS International”].
PolicyFile indexes and abstracts publications produced by a broad
range of research organizations, university centers, think tanks, and others.
Provides links to full text, when available. [Proprietary database.
GWU students must access it through the GWU Gelman Library site: From its
home page, click “Databases”, then “Aladin Article and Other Databases.”
Select “Alphabetical List,” and click “PolicyFile”].
Scout Report Signpost
provides reviews of Web sites in various fields, including education.
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts a wide spectrum
of literature in sociology, as do ERIC and PsycINFO.
[Proprietary database. GWU students must access it through the GWU
Gelman Library site: From its home page, click “Databases”, then “Aladin
Article and Other Databases.” Select “Alphabetical List,” and click “Sociological
Abstracts”.].
U.S.
Agency for International Development--Education & Training Resourcesprovides
links to various Web sites with information on education and training for
developing countries.
U.S. Department of Education has
an extensive Web site, with the full text of many reports and links to
many other resources.