It is an excellent place to search for many aspects of the elementary and early childhood curriculum, although ERIC is recommended as a starting point. There is no full text available for PsycINFO and no free Internet access to the database. This set of databases and indexes offers tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Despite this apparent depth, it is notoriously poor in its coverage of education and education-related journals, although it does index the current psychology and social science literature very well. It is an excellent database for keeping abreast of current research in some areas.
Full text is unavailable and there is no free Internet access to the database.
The Internet has become an important resource for most academic disciplines and many other areas. However, because of its unregulated and relatively free-flowing nature, it is sometimes difficult to judge the authority of web pages and sites. The authority of information presented and its reliability is a major concern in using the Internet as a research resource, and caution is advised in relying on it as a definitive or sole source of research. The following is a handful of useful sites, arranged by relative importance. It features outstanding links to varying resources for parents and educators, information about ERIC and other networks, and postings on different research topics.