Virtual Libraries

• The Virtual Library: Education
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Humanities
• The Virtual Library: Social Sciences
• The WWW Virtual Library

Clearing Houses - Databases

• Argus Clearinghouse
• AskERIC
• Coombsweb Social Sciences Server/Asian Studies Server
• Crossroads in the Social Sciences
• Distance Education Clearinghouse
• EdResearch Online
• ERIC Clearinghouse
  • on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education
  • on Assessment and Evaluation
  • on Higher Education
  • on Information and Technology
  • on Social Studies/Social Science Education
  • on Teaching and Teacher Education
• ERIC Digests
• Horizon
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• Regard
• Resource Guide for the Social Sciences
• Social Science Information Gateway - SOSIG

Argus Clearinghouse

The Internet's Premier Research Library. A Selective Selection of Topical Guides.

AskERIC

AskERIC is a personalized, Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, students, counselors, administrators, parents, and others. In addition, AskERIC is a Sun SITE repository, which enables expansion of the quality and quantity of its resources and services to the education community.

Crossroads in the Social Sciences

Crossroads is a resource directory of Social Science data available on the Internet. It is designed to provide links to annotated information resources arranged by subject and type. The service is run by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Coombsweb Social Sciences Server/Asian Studies Server

The pioneer site for Asia-Pacific research and electronic publishing. The Coombsweb is conceived and maintained by the Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU) and is updated on a daily basis.

Distance Education Clearinghouse

The Distance Education Clearinghouse allows users easy access to a wide range of information about distance education. This comprehensive and widely recognized web site brings together distance education information and resources from Wisconsin, national and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse on a continuing basis.

EdResearch Online

EdResearch Online is the "web" subset of the Australian Education Index is now available online for searching as EdResearch Online. This subset has all those AEI records that are freely available on the web (8000+), as well as some that can be purchased for a fee through arrangements with the Copyright Agency. EdResearch Online can be searched for free.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education

ERIC/ACVE provides comprehensive information, publications, and services in adult and continuing education, all aspects of career education, and vocational and technical education including work force preparation.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation

The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation seeks to provide balanced information concerning educational assessment and resources to encourage responsible test use.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education

ERIC-HE covers a broad range of information including students, faculty, graduate and professional education, legal issues, financing, planning and evaluation, curriculum, teaching methods, and state-federal-institutional questions related to higher education.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology

ERIC/CIT provides educational technology and library/information science at all academic levels and addresses all aspects of information management and information technology related to education.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Social Studies/Social Science Education

ERIC/ChESS monitors issues about the teaching and learning of history, geography, civics, economics, and other subjects in the social studies/social sciences.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education

The ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education, one of sixteen ERIC Clearinghouses, collects, abstracts, and indexes education materials for the ERIC database; responds to requests for information in the subject areas of teaching; teacher education; and health, physical education, recreation, and dance (HPERD); and produces special publications on current research, programs, and practices.

ERIC Digests

Every year, the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) produces more than 200 ERIC Digests--two page syntheses of the best, most current research on a topic. Topics covered are determined largely by the questions most frequently asked each of the sixteen subject-oriented ERIC Clearinghouses. A full-text searchable collection of 2,089 ERIC Digests is maintained at the Department of Education.

Horizon

The mission of the Horizon Web site is to provide an information database and a forum that (1) explores the implications of a rapidly changing world on educational organizations and processes, and (2) examines ways in which we can make educational organizations and programs more effective.

Regard

REGARD is a searchable bibliographic database containing in-depth information on UK social science research. It is wholly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

IBSS is a interdisciplinary research tool for the social scientist. The IBSS database holds over 1,700,000 references to journal articles, book reviews, book monographs and selected book chapters.

Resource Guide for the Social Sciences

A range of electronic resources have been set up specifically to meet the needs of those working and studying in the Social Sciences. The Resource Guide for the Social Sciences focuses on resources funded by the JISC and the ESRC and provided by services based at UK higher education institutions.

Social Science Information Gateway - SOSIG

SOSIG can help you locate high quality sites on the Internet, which are relevant to social science education and research. The SOSIG Internet Catalogue offers access to thousands of high quality Internet resources, each selected and described by academic librarians and subject specialists.