Library Instructional Services

Academic Search Premier

The diverse content available in this database assists in performing a thorough investigation of research topics. Academic Search Premier's scholarly collection includes embedded images and provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study--including education. This database provides full-text access to over 4,500 journals.  You must be a current MSU faculty member, staff member, or student to access this database.

ERIC, the U.S. Department of Educational Resource Information Center database, contains indexing and abstracts from thousands of research and technical reports in the Resources In Education Index (RIE) and from more than 750 education and education-related journals in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Note that the ERIC database is undergoing some changes. A web page describing these changes and offering MSU users other educational research options is available at the Changes to ERIC website.   You must be a current MSU faculty member, staff member, or student to access this database.

MAGNOLIA is Mississippi's state-wide consortium, providing databases and full-text resources to public and school libraries, community colleges, and universities, as well as the citizens of the state of Mississippi.  The K-12 website provides access to MAGNOLIA databases available to Mississippi public schools, as well as useful web links and lesson plans for MAGNOLIA databases.

It describes the books, journals, magazines, and other materials in the Library's collection. Use it to find out if the Library holds the sources in the citations collected from the databases above. Need help using Galaxy? An online tutorial is available.
 

Through the Library's databases and journal subscriptions, users have access to thousands of electronic journals.  Our electronic journals website allows users to search by the title of the journal or by a keyword in the title of the journal.  (NOTE:  to find articles on a particular topic, use one of the databases above.)  You must be a current MSU faculty member, staff member, or student to access most electronic journals.

All library databases

All MSU Library online databases, organized by title. The database list is also available organized by subject. You must be a current MSU faculty member, staff member, or student to access most of these databases.

• Comparative Education
• Educational Administration and Educational Leadership
• Educational Philosophy
• Tests and Measurements

Electronic References (APA) (Provides a good overview from APA on citing electronic resources and documents.)

Guide for Writing Research Papers (Provides a good overview of the construction of research papers using the APA citation style.)

APA Citation Guide (Developed by Ohio State, this online guide summarizes information found in the print manual.)

American Heritage Book of English Usage

This online guide covers English usage and much more.  Users can choose their preferred type of usage (modern or American English, for example) and find information about usage, an online dictionary, and even quotations!

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The unabridged American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, contains over 90,000 entries and meanings. Word definitions are further enhanced by examples of use, usage notes, and over 70,000 audio word pronunciations.

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref PE1628 .A623 2000]

Barksdale, Karl. Writing with Computers. Cincinnati: Computer Literacy Press, 1998. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB1576.7 .B3753 1998]

Condition of Education. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1980-    . [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref L112 .N377a -- latest edition held at Ready Reference]

Daily Planning for Today's Classroom. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB1027.4 .P73 1999]

Davis, Barbara Gross. Tools for Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB2331 .D37 1993]

Digest of Education Statistics. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976-    . [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref L111 .A6 -- latest edition held at Ready Reference]

Education Index. New York: H. W. Wilson Co. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref L Z5813 .E23]

Encyclopedia of Educational Research. 6th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1992. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB15 .E48 1992]

International Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd ed. Oxford, England: Pergamon, 1994. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB15 .I569 1994]

Nathan, Marilyn. The New Teacher's Survival Guide. London: Kogan Page, 1995. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB2844.1.N4 N37 1995]

Palmer, Joy A.. Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey. London: Routledge, 2001. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB17 .F56 2001]

Palmer, Joy A.. Fifty ModernThinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present. London: Routledge, 2001. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB17 .F57 2001]

Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub., 1996. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB17 .P485 1996]

Practical Guide to Elementary Instruction. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1997. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB1555 .B66 1997]

Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2002. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref PE1625 .O86 2002]

Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus in Dictionary Form. 3rd ed. New York: Delta Trade, 2005. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref PE1591 .K54 2005]

Unger, Harlow G. Encyclopedia of American Education. New York: Facts on File, 2001. [MSU Reference (2nd Floor) -- Call Number: Ref LB17 .U57 2001 v. 1-3]

Educator's Reference Desk

The Educator's Reference Desk is a project of the Information Institute at Syracuse University and provides online access to a web directory of education related materials as well as an extensive listing of online lesson plans.

GEM: Gateway to Educational Materials

The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) project is a consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to the substantial collections of educational materials found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites, including lesson plans and curriculum units.

Mississippi K12 Curriculum Frameworks

Provides access to the state of Mississippi's curriculum frameworks. 

National Center for Education Statistics

The National Center for Education Statistics or NCES is the federal agency who's mission is the collection and dissemination of educational statistics.  Here you'll find online access to the Condition of Education and the Digest of Education Statistics as well as a wealth of other statistical studies. 

Pro Teacher

An enormous amount of useful information, as one would expect.