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Education Database This link opens in a new window
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Articles from 550 journals in the field of primary, secondary and higher education, 1988-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
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Education journal articles (EJ references) and ERIC documents (ED references), 1967-present. EDs before 1997 are requestable using the Microforms Request page and usable in the Microforms Vewing Room in the LC.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Peace Research Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journal articles - focus on scholarship related to peace research - including conflict resolution, international affairs and peace psychology. Coverage: 1964-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts for philosophy journal articles and books published in Western languages, 1940-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
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100+ full-text landmark journals from American Psychological Association (APA) and other societies, 1894-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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Published by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed journal literature in psychology, behavioral science and mental health - 2,500 journal titles indexed - 2.8 million records - 1887 to present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Psychological Experiments Online This link opens in a new window
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Multimedia online resource synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries. Seventy-five hours of audio and video recordings of the original experiments with 40,000 pages of primary-source documents. Includes field notes, letters penned by the lead psychologists, videos of modern-day replications, and modifications to the original experiments.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.