Library Guides: Education: Find Books

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Find book reviews

Teachers College Record Book Reviews
Reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. (TCR Book Reviews)
Book Review Digest Plus
"Indexes book reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults, from over 8000 leading magazines from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Includes several thousand full text reviews. For book reviews published from 1905 to 1982 go to Book Review Digest Retrospective which can be searched separately or simultaneously."
Book Review Index
More than 5 million citations to book reviews from thousands of publications.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
For children's books.

An acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,800,000 MARC records and more than 315,000 reviews of children's books.
New York Review of Books (NYRB)
Covers all areas of intellectual thought including science, philosophy, history, politics, and literature. Search the entire collection going back to 1963 or go directly to the current issue.

eBook collections

The Library offers over 100 e-book and e-text collections in specific subject areas. For more, consult the Finding eBooks at Berkeley guide.

APA e-book collection
(from the American Psychological Association)

Individual e-book titles are also listed in the library catalog.
JSTOR
Includes ebooks from university presses

For more sophisticated search capabilities, go directly to JSTOR advanced search.
MIT CogNet
(ebooks on brain and cognitive science)

Provides searchable electronic texts in cognitive and brain sciences. Contains work from both from the MIT Press, as well as links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals.
Project MUSE
(ebooks from major university presses including books on education)

Topics include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. Books are available in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level, with no restrictions on downloading or printing.
ProQuest Ebook Central
(tens of thousands of ebooks)

A database of more than 77,000 complete e-books covering 16 key subject areas including: business and economics, computers and IT, literature and linguistics, history, political science, and more. These ebooks are also listed in the library catalog.
Springer Electronic Book Package
(ebooks in a wide range of academic disciplines including education and psychology)

Includes nearly 20,000 Springer e-books from every scientific discipline and many social sciences, including Architecture and Design, Behavioral Science/Psychology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry and Materials Science, Computer Science, and more.
Wiley Online Library Ebook Collection
(ebooks in many subjects including psychology and social & behavioral sciences, from 2011)

Exclusions to the collection are textbooks and major reference works.

Purchase Recommendation

Use the Purchase Recommendation form to suggest items that the Library should consider for our collections.

Reference

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and and other online reference sources

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2nd edition)
MIT CogNet Reference Books
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning
Oxford Bibliographies Online (including Education)
Oxford Research Encyclopedia:Education (new!)

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