Education & Counseling

  ERIC (ProQuest)

  Education Administration Abstracts (EBSCO)

  PsycINFO (ProQuest)

  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest)

  Scopus (Elsevier)

  PsycTHERAPY

  Career and Technical Education (ProQuest)

  Counseling and Therapy in Video (Alexander Street Press)

  Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest)

  JSTOR

  ProQuest Education Journals

  ProQuest Social Science Journals

  Project Muse

  Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)

  Web of Science (Clarivate)

WorldCat (OCLC)
WorldCat is a catalog of library collections worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.
WorldCat Step-by-Step is a self-paced interactive tutorial for students new to this resource.

Falvey Library Catalog
The Library's catalog enables patrons to search & browse Falvey Memorial Library’s collection of books, journals, audio/video materials, electronic resources and more.

Encyclopedia of educational theory and philosophy

The SAGE encyclopedia of contemporary early childhood education

The SAGE encyclopedia of online education

The SAGE encyclopedia of educational technology

International Education: an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems

 

American FactFinder
American FactFinder is a web site used to distribute data collected by the United States Census Bureau.
It provides data for the lowest level of geography, to largest geographic entities, from zip code areas, to Census tracts.

Budget History Tables -U.S. Dept. of Ed.
Shows President's budget requests and enacted appropriations for major Education Department programs from 1980-2016

Condition of Education
Congressionally mandated report that is provided to Congress annually. Contains key indicators on the condition of education in the United States at all levels.

Data-Planet
Search and browse for datasets on topics ranging from banking to criminal justice to economic indicators to health to labor to natural resources and transportation gleaned from government agencies, private exchanges and international organizations. Statistical Datasets supports customized graphing, mapping and even some common statistical functions.

Data.gov
Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.

Digest of Educational Statistics
Statistical information on education from kindergarten through graduate school. Included data on enrollment, number of schools in various categories, faculty, graduates, educational attainment levels, financial aid and employment data

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
Primary source for information on U.S. colleges, universities, and technical and vocational institutions.

National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
Located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES fulfills a Congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education.

National longitudinal surveys (NLS)
The NLS, sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, are nationally representative surveys that follow the same sample of individuals from specific birth cohorts over time. The surveys collect data on labor market activity, schooling, fertility, program participation, health, and much, much more. Choose a cohort below to learn more.

Social Explorer
Explore thousands of historical data maps. Our maps are interactive and go from the first U.S. Census in 1790 to the present.

State Higher Education Finance (SHEF)
Includes current SHEF FY report, data and downloads, project information and information about the data collection process.

U.S. Department of Education - Data & Statistics
Education-related data and statistics

  Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCO)

  Grid-Enabled Measures Database (GEM)

  Compendium of neuropsychological tests: Administration, norms and commentary.

  ETS Test Collection database

  Handbook of Tests and Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences

  Health and Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCO)

ProQuest Central
Vast aggregated full-text database

Lexis Nexis Academic
Will be replaced by Nexis Uni, Sept 30, 2017Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
"LexisNexis online services and the materials contained therein are under copyright by LexisNexis. All rights reserved. No part of these Services may be used except for research purposes, and the Services may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the LexisNexis Academic Library Solutions. Materials retrieved from the Services may not be duplicated in hard copy or machine-readable form without the prior written authorization of LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions, except that limited reproduction of output is permitted solely for individual use by the Authorized User or internal distribution within the Subscribing Institution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement unless further limited or prohibited by the Copyright Act of 1976. Under no circumstances may the Materials or any portion thereof be used to create derivative products or services."

Historical New York Times: 1851- (ProQuest)
The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851 to the present with the exception of the most current three years. Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc., editorials and commentary.

Washington Post Historical: 1877- (ProQuest)
The historical Washington Post offers full-text searching of every available issue of the Washington Post and Washington Post/Times-Herald title variations, from 1877 to the present with the exception of the last seventeen years. For more recent Washington Post articles, see Lexis Nexis Academic coverage (1977 - Present).

Cabell’s Directories of Publishing Opportunities
Provides the publishing guidelines of journals in the following areas: accounting, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, educational psychology and administration, and psychology. Includes address for submission, review information (such as type of review, acceptance rate) and type of articles (current issues, literature reviews, etc.).

College Navigator (NCES)
Directory with statistical profile of colleges and universities from the National Center for Educational Statistics

Center for Online Education
Team of internal experts and collaborative partners is dedicated to bringing you the most up-to-date, accurate information about the online learning experience, (Team includes Villanova graduate, Molly Miller, '89.)

ERIC
Free web interface for Educational Resources Information Center. May be more current than the EBSCO version in some cases.

Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education and provides scientific evidence in formats that are useful and accessible to educators. Includes links to NCER, NCES, NCEE, NCSER.

Learning Science
This portal for science students and teachers provides learning tools including simulations, visual lessons, imaging and interactive Web lessons.

National School Boards Association (NSBA)
NSBA represents state school boards associations and their more than 90,000 local school board members.

Pennsylvania Department of Education

Stanford HistoryEducaiton Group (SHEG)
Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) sponsors an ongoing research group for students across the university interested in issues of how history is taught and learned.

U.S. Department of Education

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)
WWC reviews evidence of effectiveness of programs, policies, or practices by using a consistent and transparent set of standards. creates products that present findings on what works in education, including intervention reports, single study reviews, quick reviews and practice guides.

  Citing and Evaluating Research

  APA Style Guide to Electronic References

  APSA Style Manual (Complete)

  Guide to APSA Basics

  RefWorks

  RefWorks Help

  Villanova Writing Center

  Zotero

  E-ZBorrow and Interlibrary Loan

  Journal Finder