American College of Education is committed to providing the best university-level library resources and services to our students. The 21st-century revolution in information and telecommunications technologies is making scholarly and research information increasingly available in digital formats.
The effective use of technology can significantly improve the way that online students identify, access, locate, and use information—anytime and anywhere.
Our Library directly supports online teaching and learning with both innovative and traditional library services, resources, and online technologies. To access the library database, click on the Library Access button to launch your MyACE Student Portal to log in.
The EBSCO Discovery Service provides users with an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of an institution's information resources through a single search. This is achieved by harvesting metadata from both internal (library) and external (data base venders) sources, and creating a pre-indexed service of unprecedented size and speed.
ArticleFirst is an index of 27 million articles created from the tables-of-contents of multi-disciplinary journals.
Child Development & Adolescent Studies is an index of book reviews, articles, technical reports, theses, and dissertations related to growth and development of children through age of 21.
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a weekly online newspaper covering news, statistics, special reports, and job openings in colleges and universities in the U.S. and worldwide.
Clase and Periódica are two separate databases in one. Clase indexes documents published since 1975 in Latin American and Caribbean journals in the social sciences and humanities. Periódica includes citations to articles and other documents published since 1978 in Latin American and Caribbean scientific and technological journals.
Education Abstracts/Full-Text indexes and abstracts articles from education journals published since 1983, education yearbooks published since 1994, and books in education published since 1995. Subjects covered include adult education, continuing education, library science, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods, and more.
Education Research Complete is an authoritative online resource for Education research. According to Ebsco, this massive file offers the world’s largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as leadership, curriculum, instruction, multilingual education, health education, testing, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering educational administration, leadership, management, educational research, and other areas. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1966.
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is created and distributed free by the U. S. Dept. of Education. ERIC indexes and abstracts education journals, as well as published and unpublished books, monographs, curriculum guides, conference papers, proceedings, position papers, teaching guides, and other educational materials.
Google Scholar is a keyword search engine of journal articles harvested daily from the Web, as well as U. S. patents and legal opinions.
GPO Monthly Catalog is the only comprehensive index of government publications. Established in 1876, the U. S. Government Printing Office is the world’s largest publisher. Government publications are available on Education and every other subject in every academic discipline. Most are free from GPO or the issuing agency, and newer ones may be available on the Web. GPO estimates that today 50% of all U.S. government documents are now born digital.
Medline is the premier international bibliographic database covering all fields of medicine including psychology, psychiatry, nursing, dentistry, nutrition, education, and social services.
OAIster harvests Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-compliant resources in all subjects and disciplines from digital libraries, institutional repositories, and online journals. Its goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone. Digital resources include books, articles, born-digital text, audio and image files, datasets, theses, technical and research papers, and image collections.
ProQuest Education Journals covers scholarly literature on primary, secondary, and higher education, special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
All ERIC journal articles and ERIC documents are assigned subject headings from the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/resources/html/thesaurus/about_thesaurus.html.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) is a comprehensive guide to 2,000+ contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains reviews and information essential for a complete evaluation of testing products in psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY database includes the MMY archive of all yearbooks from the first edition in 1938 through the 18th yearbook released in 2010.
Tests in Print (TIP) is a comprehensive bibliography of all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
eBooks is a collection of full-text e-books. ACE purchased 2009 and 2010 Education publications, and will continue to update this collection.
Proceedings is a multi-disciplinary index of proceedings of worldwide conferences, symposia, expositions, workshops, and meetings that were received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
World Almanac database contains Funk & Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Books of Facts, The World Almanac of the U. S. A., The World Almanac of U. S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.
WorldCat is the online catalog of books and all types of other materials located in 72,000+ libraries worldwide. American College of Education is a member of OCLC and WorldCat (OCLC symbol is ILACE.)
WorldCat Dissertations is a catalog of dissertations, theses, and published works based on them in all subjects that are owned and cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide.