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- Curriculum Resources Collection
- Key databases
- Worth a look
- Assignment help
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Education networks and State departmental Web sites
- High impact journals
- Web sites and Internet resources
Curriculum Resources Collection
This is a special collection held by the University Library for education students. It consists of school level material, including syllabus documents and practical teaching texts.
Location: The Collection is located on the first floor of the Library, across from the 300s.
All material in the Collection is available for loan and can be taken on student teaching placements.
Items in the Collection have call numbers with a CR preface.
Curriculum Collection CDs (held up to 2006)Key databases
ERIC (CSA) Selected Full Text
The ERIC database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides extensive access to educational-related literature.
CSA Help
A+ Education 
Full Text
Includes full-text journal articles from more than 100 education journals.
Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
ProQuest (Education modules) Selected Full Text
Search ProQuest Education Journals and Career and Technical Education on the ProQuest interface.
Emerald
A collection of over 190 peer-reviewed journals in management and related disciplines.
Emerald Help
The Emerald database is also good for adult education topics.
Worth a look
APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995. | 
AUSPORT: Australian Sport Database
Selectively indexes relevant Australian material.
BEI: British Education Index
British education journals (see list). Current year only on Web, contact your Faculty Librarian for full search.
DELTAA: Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia
Produced by the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR), Macquarie University.
ERIC Plus Text (ProQuest) Full Text
Provides extensive access to educational-related literature and includes links to full text articles within the ProQuest and ERIC databases.
Family & Society PLUS Selected Full Text
Covers research, policy and practice issues about Australian families including child abuse and child protection issues.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.
JSTOR includes 66 education journals going back as far as the 19th Century in some cases.
LLBA: Language and Linguistic Behavior Abstracts Selected Full Text
Covers all aspects of language and applied linguistics, including language teaching and learning.
CSA Help
MAIS: Multicultural Australia 
MAIS indexes and abstracts a wide range of published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and related multicultural issues.
PsycINFO Selected Full Text
Scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
CSA Help
SAGE: Science And Geography Education
Indexes a broad range of science-related subjects. Intended for secondary school students and undergraduates.
The Source Selected Full Text
Covers children's literature awards and prizes worldwide. Includes a subject, author, genre and title guide to books, short stories and poetry for children.
Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
Informaworld Help
Taylor & Francis journals include more than 140 titles in the area of Education.
Voced Selected Full Text
Covers Australian and international publications on vocational education and training.
Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines. | Discover Wiley InterScience (PDF)
Wiley Interscience journals include more than 60 education titles.
Assignment help
EDEC310 Child Advocacy
EDEE 112 Short Essay
EDEE 921 Secondary Education - English 1
Children's literature
Finding lesson plans
Finding Syllabus documents online (Current Syllabi)
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Gale Virtual Reference Library titles relevant to education include:
Encyclopedia of children and childhood
Encyclopedia of school psychology
Web-based learning: a practical guide
Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
Oxford Reference Online includes language dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and reference dictionaries and encyclopedias in all subject areas including the Oxford Dictionary of Education and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature.
SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a database of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
Sage eReference includes the Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology, Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods and Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods
Free Online Databases and Directories
ERIC Online — Free internet access to the ERIC databases. Less functionality than UNE e-resources versions above.
Education-line — An offshoot of the British Education Index (available in Dixson Library) this new database offers full-text conference papers and some theses dating back to 1996.
Eldis — A database of ten thousand key documents and one hundred thousand selected websites regarding development information. Excellent for snapshots of education in other countries. Maintained at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex.
IDP Database of Research into International Education — Includes international and Australian research: references to articles, books conference papers, reports; links to websites. Updated monthly.
GED — The Global Education Database accesses education data compiled by USAID from UNESCO and DHS sources - very comprehensive. Permits construction of tables of data using standard spreadsheet programs.
UNESCO portal — This site contains electronic theses and dissertations on education, as well as links to pages about primary, secondary, and higher education worldwide.
World Data on Education — Published by UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education, this site features two fully-searchable databases with information on education world-wide with text as well as statistical data.
Education networks and State departmental Web sites
NSW Department Education and Training
ACT Department of Education
Northern Territory Department of Education
Education Queensland
Department of Education and Children's Services South Australia
Department of Education - Tasmania
Department of Education and Training, Victoria includes resources, online workshops, learning technologies, and Victorian school news.
Education Department Western Australia
Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) - Commonwealth
EdNA Education Network Australia; provides links to all the authorities above and more
High impact journals
The following Education journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Education, Education Systems, Curriculum and Pedagogy and Specialist studies in Education:
American Educational Research Journal in paper at call number P370.78/AME 1967- 1964-2004
Australian Educational Researcher in paper at call number P370.78094/A938 1974- 2001-
Australian Journal of Education in paper at call number P370/A938 1957- 1991-
British Educational Research Journal 1978-2004 1997-
British Journal of Educational Studies in paper at call number P370.5/BRI 1952- 1952-2002 2006-
Cambridge Journal of Education in paper at call number P370.71/C178 1992- 1997-
Educational Researcher in paper at call number P370.78/E243 1972- 1972-2004
Harvard Educational Review in paper at call number P370.5/HAR 1931- 1988-
International Journal of Educational Research in paper at call number P370.78/I61 1988-2007 1995-
Oxford Review of Education 1975-20041997-
Review of Educational Research in paper at call number P370.5/REV 1931-2001 1931-2004 1988-
Web sites and Internet resources
Aboriginal Education
Indigenous Peoples of Australia:Education This website, covers the whole spectrum of content, including education.
Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library Maintained by Dr Ciolek of the Australian National University, this site provides links to over one hundred and thirty specialist information facilities. Sites are evaluated before being added to this portal page.
INFOKOORI Index to the Koori Mail at the State Library of NSW. also includes Our Aim, Dawn, New Dawn and Identity. UNE holds copies of Dawn, New Dawn, Identity and Koori Mail.
Literacy and Numeracy The outcome of a research project by the ACT Department of Education and Community Services, this site presents standards, skills and guidelines, as well as research relating to the project.
Adult Education/VET
Highlander Center The Highlander Center serves as an adult education center for community workers involved in social and economic justice movements. Its goals provide education and support to poor and working people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice, and environmental destruction and helps grassroots leaders create the tools necessary for building broad-based movements for change.
International Literacy Explorer A multimedia teacher training tool, created by the International Literacy Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
Evaluating education sites
Evaluation of information sources A useful portal site on how to evaluate web sources.
eSKILLS UNE The library site for evaluating and referencing electronic resources.
Literacy
Google Literacy Project A resource for teachers, literacy organisations and anyone interested in reading and education.
LOTE/ESL teaching
ACTA The homepage for the Australian Council of TESOL Associations features new ESL courses pages, links to interactive sites and course providers, publications in the area of multilingualism, employment opportunities, conferences, and events.
CILT The homepage of the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research in the UK.
Dave's ESL Cafe Meet up with other ESL teachers and students, chat, hunt through the ideas cookbook, find what jobs are going, and more on this fun, interactive site.
I Love Languages This portal site links to over two thousand language-related internet resources.
TESL-EJ A fully refereed e-journal that has become an internationally recognised source of ESL and EFL information. With articles dating from 1994 to the present.
TESOL Connects! From Virginia in the US, the TESOL organisation, with information on accreditation, publications, professional development, and a job finder search engine.
The Language Teacher Online A publication of the Japan Association for Language Teaching, this e-journal has fulltext articles dating from 1996 to the present.
Resources in Language Testing A language testing database, articles, reviews, news, and conference details from this site hosted by Surrey University.
Research Papers & Websites
Australian Association for Research in Education AARE facilitates contact between education researchers, and assists them by conducting conferences and workshops, forming special interest groups, and publishing general and specific professional publications. This site also includes full text conference papers.
Qualitative Research Web Sites Provides links to online journals as well as information on qualitative research.
Action Research website maintained at southern Cross University, has information on action research and links to other relevant websites.
Test Sites
The UNE School of Psychology lists the holdings of the School's test library and contains links to worldwide psychological assessment resources.