• Search Tables Base Edition: selected statistical tables drawn mainly from sources published by the U.S. government since about 1998.
• Search Abstracts:
  • American Statistics Index (ASI) abstracts (1970-) and full text (ca 2004-) of Federal government sources
  • Statistical Reference Index (SRI) abstracts (1980-) of state and private sources
  • Index to International Statistics (IIS) abstracts (1983-) of international and inter-governmental sources

Coverage ranges across many topics including income, production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, economic indicators, demographics, energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, medicine, and education.

Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications.

SIRS Discoverer is an award-winning general reference resource for beginning learners and researchers in grades 1-9. The database includes editorially-selected, full-text articles and images from over a thousand domestic and international newspapers, magazines, and government documents. The images include graphics, photos, charts, and maps, including U.S. historical, world historical, and outline maps. SIRS Discoverer also offers supplemental curriculum and learning materials, including an educator's guide, middle- and elementary-level student workbooks, citation guidelines, research strategy worksheets, and more through the Educator's Resources link.

Database Information and Guides

SIRS Researcher is a general database of selected full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues. In addition to full-text articles, the following are also available: Today's News, Almanac Excerpts, and Maps of the World. Many articles are accompanied by graphics, including charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations. Content is aligned to state standards, and articles include Lexile scores to match readers with articles at their reading level.

SIRS Researcher also offers relevant, credible resources aligned to standards that tell the whole story on the major issues of the day. Information for each SIRS Leading Issue:

• Offers introductory overview for context
• Reviews the issue's pro/con viewpoints with resources for each viewpoint
• Displays My Analysis that frames important questions
• Links to printable PDFs for use in classroom instruction
• Provides relevant, full-text documents and multimedia resources, updated daily
• Offers sample activity templates for student essays, research papers, debates, etc.
• Promotes critical thinking and inquiry-based learning

Database Information and Guides

• Updated: Daily
• Title List
• URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zsks
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For dissertations and theses completed prior to those dates, references are given to the print edition of Dissertation Abstracts, American Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Abstracts. Abstracts may be consulted in those publications.

Not all dissertations from all participating universities are included in Dissertation Abstracts. Coverage depends on the date a university began online contribution of their abstracts to University Microfilms International (now ProQuest). Also, for many European universities the contribution of abstracts was the responsibility of the student.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations offers subscribers access to dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward. Users affiliated with participating doctoral-granting institutions may download for free PDF copies of disserations granted by their own institutions (but not from institutions other than their own). The free PDF downloads are available only from on-campus computers. Free preview copies of the first 24 pages of many dissertations (1997- ) are available to all users of the database. NOTE: It is possible to purchase copies of dissertations in a variety of formats online in the Dissertation Abstracts / Digital Dissertations database. However, if you wish to borrow disserations from other institutions, please contact the Interlibrary Loan Department.

Students who want tips on preparing digital dissertations and theses can go to ProQuest Digital Dissertations, Guidelines for Submitting Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library complements titles in the Gale E-Book Collection with the following additional titles:
  
  • Almanac of American Education, 2006 ed., 2006
  • Copyright Catechism: Practical Answers to Everyday School Dilemmas, 2005
  • Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2nd ed., 3v, 2002
  • Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 2nd ed., 4v, 2002
  • Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed., 8v, 2003
  • A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals: From Enron to Reform, 2006
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court, 2004
  • Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, 2v, 2002
  • Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, 2v, 1999
  • Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, 7th ed., 2005
  • Handbook of Mortgage Backed Securities, 6th ed., 2006
  • Historical Dictionary of the Old South, 2005
  • International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, 2nd ed., 4v, 2003
  • National Survey of State Laws, 5th ed., 2005
  • St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide, 2v, 2003
  • World Education Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 3v, 2002
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, 4v, 2002
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, 11th ed., 6v, 2004
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States, 6th ed., 2004
• Coverage Dates: varies
• Updated: varies
• Languages: English
• Database Provider: gale
• URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=galj-uga1
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Database provider: Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University.

• Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index)
• Current Contents Connect (last 5 years)
• Journal Citation Reports (1999-)

Education & Training Materials

Users can create an account in order to use personalization tools, including creating a Favorites list, but a personal account is not required for accessing eBooks through the GALILEO interface. A personal login is required when accessing through library catalogs and through the NetLibrary web site.

NetLibrary Titles Index for Shared Collections 1 and 2 (at SOLINET).

Database provider: NetLibrary, a Division of OCLC.

Database provider: National Center for Education Statistics.

If you wish to search for articles published in only a specific publication, click on 'Sources' in the black bar at the top of the screen. Search for the publication, click on 'Find Title', then choose "Search This Title" next to the publication you want to search. This will paste the name of the publication into the search screen, and will ensure that you are searching the correct section of LexisNexis.

FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.

More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

The NAEP Data Explorer, from the U.S. Department of Education, provides national and state results in 10 subject areas, including mathematics, reading, writing, and science. Results have been produced for the nation and participating states and other jurisdictions since 1990, and for selected urban districts (on a trial basis) since 2002.

The Long-Term Trends section provides national mathematics and reading results dating from the 1970s.

The site also offers grade 12 assessment results from the 2005 mathematics and science assessments for students who graduated high school in 2005. Results are available for transcript data such as course-taking and grade point average.

With the NAEP Data Explorer (NDE) you can create statistical tables, charts, and maps to help you find answers. Explore the results of decades of assessment of students' academic performance, as well as information about factors that may be related to their learning.

• Citations to actual test documents that copyright holders authorize BMDS to make available
• Bibliographic citations to journal articles which contain information about specific test instruments
• A catalog of commercial test publishers and their available instruments

In addition to medical measurement instruments, HaPI presents tests used in medically related disciplines including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.