Databases and Periodical Indexes for Lesson and Curriculum Planning

Sample Education Databases (for citation, abstract and some full text searching):

For a list of all education databases go to: Database Locator for Education

Kraus Curriculum Development Library (curricula, frameworks and standards)

• Academic Search Premiere Searching across subject areas-- much is full text.
• Digital Dissertations U.S. dissertations (first 24 pages viewable online).
• Education Complete Searches educational journals and periodicals, some full text.
• ERIC The premier database for searching educational journals and documents.
• Expanded Academic Index - Articles/citations from interdisciplinary scholarly journals and general interest magazines

Please note: Many of our electronic resources have restricted access from off-campus and are only available to UMass-Amherst students, faculty or staff with an OIT account.

Sample Subject Search Terms

• You may do a broad subject search, as below.
• You may limit by year or by adding another term
• You may also combine terms in a keyword search (as in the first search)

•  Art and Elementary Education 
•  Classroom Management
•  Cognition in Children 
•  Curriculum Planning - Innovation 
•  Curriculum Planning -Research
•  Curriculum Planning - Standards
•  Curriculum Planning - Techniques
•  Lesson Planning 
•  Student Teaching 
•  Teaching - Equipment and Supplies 

Free ERIC database search site:

ERIC http://www.eric.ed.gov/

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Electronic Journals In Education:

• E-journal page for education
• E-Journal Locator -- Type in a journal title to see if the journal title is contained in any of our library subscriptions.

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