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University of Idaho has recently partnered with Academic Impressions, an organization specializing in professional development resources for higher education administrators. This partnership provides all faculty, staff, and students at University of Idaho with membership access to a host of training resources designed specifically for professionals working in our industry. Topics areas range from skills-based trainings for professionals in all areas of higher ed, to leadership trainings on topics such as supervision, personal effectiveness, and diversity, equity, & inclusion, and more.

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Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers almost 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 14,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street.
Academic Video Online includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage. Patrons will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Academic institutions will find the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
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Includes the Cabell's Directories of Educational Curriculum and Methods and Education Psychology and Administration. Professors and graduate students in Education frequently use Cabell's Directories to assist them in publishing their manuscripts.
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Citations and abstracts of publications on the maltreatment, safety, permanency and well-being of children. Includes references to books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies. Updated annually.
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Premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice for collection development and scholarly research. Each year Choice publishes more than 7,000 reviews.
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Published online every weekday, the Chronicle is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.
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Ebsco Ebooks platform presents a wide selection of academic e-books from top publishers and presses.
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Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 indexes more than 800 periodicals and yearbooks, and cites approximately 850,000 articles, including book reviews. Subject coverage includes adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more.
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This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator--from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the Eric database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty--such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
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ERIC is the world's most widely used index to educational literature.
•More than 1.6 million records
•Links to nearly 750,000 full-text documents
•Coverage dating back to 1966
•An education-specific thesaurus containing over 11,700 terms

ERIC contains records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers.

Access funded by the State of Idaho through LiLI - Libraries Linking Idaho.
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The Educator’s Edition of Explora highlights content relevant to teachers, including lessons plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources.

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Explora is EBSCO's interface for Schools and Public Libraries. Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with the following features:
• Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results
• Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic
• Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research
• Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students
• Reading level indicators (Lexile® Measures) to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content
• Text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English
Curriculum Standards Module to help educators correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state- or province-specific curriculum standards.

Access funded by the State of Idaho through LiLI - Libraries Linking Idaho.
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Explora is EBSCO's interface for Schools and Public Libraries. Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with the following features:
• Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results
• Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic
• Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research
• Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students
• Reading level indicators (Lexile® Measures) to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content
• Text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English
Curriculum Standards Module to help educators correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state- or province-specific curriculum standards.

Access funded by the State of Idaho through LiLI - Libraries Linking Idaho.
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Indexes approximately 1,200 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences with citations to more than 1,100,000 articles including book reviews. Covers the following print indexes: International Index (1907-1965), Social Sciences & Humanities Index (1965-1974), Humanities Index (1974-1984), and Social Sciences Index (1974-1983).
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Complete image backfiles for over 2200 titles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The UI subscription includes all JSTOR titles with the exception of the Ireland Collection and 19th Century British Pamphlets. With a few exceptions, JSTOR titles do not include current issues. There is a moving wall of 3-5 years, depending on title, for which the latest issues are not available. Complete title list.
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Kanopy is a streaming video service for educational institutions that offers thousands of titles on a broad range of subjects including anthropology, architecture, art, gender & race, environment & sustainability, health, law, media, politics and psychology/sociology.

University of Idaho has moved to a mediated access model for Kanopy content beginning in July 2019. More information about this change will be forthcoming.

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provides over 800 of the most up-to-date test-preparation and skill-building resources, helping students prepare for a wide range of academic and career-oriented exams, including GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT practice exams.
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Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. Also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 150 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. - Access funded by the State of Idaho through LiLI - Libraries Linking Idaho.
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Contains the full text for nearly 1,750 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. Also includes full text for nearly 500 reference books, 86,017 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an image collection of 341,655 photo, maps and flags.
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Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, this resource is essential for evaluating contemporary testing instruments. Designed for novices and professionals alike, it contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to English and Spanish-language tests.
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Contains full text for more than 150 popular, middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
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The Mometrix collection includes digital Praxis II subject study guides for core subjects in English, Math, Social Studies, Science and more. The e-collection supports the majority of Praxis II subject study guides University of Idaho students will need. Additional guides can be requested by contacting the Open Education Librarian.
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The UI Library offers all UI students, faculty, and staff online access to New York Times in Education, which provides resources designed for educators.
• Discipline-specific areas of study
• General Instructional Strategies to promote student achievement
• Co-Curricular Activities, including events, discussions, and contests
• A library of curated content from influential educators around the world, recommended NYTimes.com articles, and real life teaching applications.

For more information about setting up an account and access options please see our New York Times Information Guide.
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Help young readers find just the right books for their reading levels and interests with the new Novelist K-8 Plus! Created by librarians and book-experts, this resource offers recommendations that you can trust.
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NoveList Plus is the premiere database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more. - Access funded by the State of Idaho through LiLI - Libraries Linking Idaho.
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Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
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Professional Development Collection is a good place to search for full text articles in the field of education. Designed for professional educators, it provides a highly specialized collection of over 520 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, citations and abstracts are provided for nearly 600 journals.
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Online access to over 13,700 e-books in the disciplines of History, Political Science, Archaeology & Anthropology, Ecology/Evolution, Education, and US Regional Studies.
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The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides access to nearly 400 full text publications, including more than 500 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, citation and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection.
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Scholarly index providing citations and abstracts of international journal articles and current chapter and book coverage.
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Over 670 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology.
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The SAGE Knowledge platform hosts more than 300 authoritative, award-winning, interdisciplinary handbooks and encyclopedias across the social sciences.
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This database provides specialized, editorially curated A&I resources critical to researchers with an academic, professional or personal interest in the field of physical education. Through scholarly and trade literature, the database covers a wide range of topics, ranging from physical and health education to fitness and recreation and the business of sports, as well as kinesiology, physical therapy, motor learning, and sport sociology and psychology.
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Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
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This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in todays classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,000 articles from more than 475 diverse sources, including nearly 1,600 full text periodicals.

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UNdata is a single entry point that allows users to access a large number of UN databases either by browsing the data series or through a keyword search.
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Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and public libraries.

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