Thursday, February 01, 2007

ProQuest Trials

The below two databases are available to the Mount Aloysius College community on a trial basis until March 16, 2007, and can be accessed through the Library webpage by clicking Trial Databases or following this link:
http://www.mtaloy.edu/academics/library/trial_databases.dot

ProQuest Education Journals
ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database offers complete text and images from journals such as:
Childhood Education
College Teaching
Harvard Educational Review
Journal of Athletic Training
Educational Theory


Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics. ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

ProQuest Professional Education
ProQuest® Professional Education delivers more than 300 full-text K-12 professional magazines and journals that address all aspects of K-12 education, including all core and supplemental curricula subjects, information technology, library science, business and administration, guidance and careers, and much more.
Titles include: American Journal of Education, American Libraries, Computers in Libraries, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Developmental Education, The Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, Library Administrator’s Digest, Multicultural Education, and Technology and Learning.

Teachers and administrators alike will keep their edge with:

  • Articles that model excellence in learning and teaching
  • Support for professional in-service use, subject mastery, research on classroom application and efficacy, curriculum support, lesson planning, and study for advanced degrees
  • Enhanced technological literacy

Researchers at any level of expertise can search by keyword, Boolean logic, topic, or publication. Power searchers can use the renowned ProQuest® indexing to construct targeted queries. Marked lists make it easy to save articles. And users can view, print, or email any article in one easy step. My Research Summary lets users build a marked list containing a record of articles, previous searches, and publications visited in one easy-to-find location. Edit it, add headings and notes, print it, or download it in a self-contained HTML file for later viewing from any Web browser or insertion into a document. It’s the perfect tool for sharing information among staff, saving research ideas, developing lesson plans, and more.

Send you comments and questions to askalibrarian@mtaloy.edu