Online resources : databases

TOCS-IN provides a searchable index of tables of contents of a selection of journals in classics and classical studies, beginning in 1992. It covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature, and Greek and Roman history, archaeology, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography, with additional coverage in the Ancient Near East and religion. About ten percent of the entries link to the full text of the articles.

In Craft Lessons, Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi write, "Writing conferences can be difficult to manage, and it's tempting to omit them from the workshop, but these one-to-one interactions are crucial. Writers need response, not only from their peers but from us as well." In this two-part series we revisit Bailey's Elementary school on the outskirts of Washington, DC, to watch and listen as accomplished teachers of students in grades 3 through 5 confer with students about their writing. Program 1, The Essentials of Conferring, covers a range of topics, including active listening, knowing your writers, management, predictable problems, and peer conferences. Program 2, Refining Your Conference Skills, takes teachers deeper into the writing conference and shows how to help students build a "writer's toolbox," connect writing conferences to other parts of the workshop, raise the bar in a conference, and push your own learning by working with your colleagues. Taken together, these two programs comprise an invaluable tool for becoming a more skillful writing teacher.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

WRDS (generally pronounced as "words") is an Internet-based data subscription service that is provided by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. This data service gives users access to a number of companion databases under the Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) including; COMPUSTAT North America (from Standard & Poors) 300 annual & 100 quarterly data items on more than 24,000 listed companies. CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices) a comprehensive collection of data from NYSE, AMEX and the Nasdaq markets. IBES (Institutional Brokers Estimates System) provides forecasts from securities analysts. NYSE TAQ (Trade and Quote) provides trade and quote data from NYSE, AMEX and the Nasdaq markets.

Provides full-text (page image) access to articles from all journals published by companies in the Taylor & Francis Group. Subject coverage includes the sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities. Quick search options include searching articles by citation, articles by text, and by specific publications. Quick browse options include browsing by publications, publishers, and subjects. Full text access restricted to institution subscriptions in print.

A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.The database uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of a treasury of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, sermons, letters, polemical treatises, and other works by hundreds of Protestant authors.

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Teacher study groups are a wonderful tool for building a reflective, research-based community within schools. This video provides a window into the study group process as literacy specialist Jennifer Allen facilitates a group exploring ways to improve writing workshops. Showing excerpts from the fall and spring meetings of the group, the video details the evolution of thinking and discussion as practices are introduced and tried in the classroom, and as reflections on those successes and failures are shared among the members of the group. The extensive viewing guide includes sample formats, suggestions of books and videos for groups, and detailed advice for launching and sustaining study groups over time.

This 15-minute video shows how Jeff Anderson uses playful strategies and mentor text to engage writers in grammar and editing. In the "Apostrophe-thon," Jeff's sixth-grade students in San Antonio, Texas search through a mentor text excerpt to find examples of apostrophes and then categorize them as possessives or contractions based on a wall chart the class has compiled. Using real text, the students never fail to come up with some interesting examples such as "O'clock" and the two meanings of "they'd.".

The video follows a high school teacher who demonstrates his method of connecting student's lives and interests with a lesson plan to more fully engage them, while allowing them to practice English language skills.

This video follows an elementary school teacher as she demonstrates an effective use of differentiated instruction in her classroom, and how she addresses numerous options for students to absorb the information presented and make sense of ideas.

This is an extensive online database of UK television and radio programmes including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations), all national and many local radio stations. Includes the option to set up email alerts ahead of transmission. Data is available at least 10 days before transmission, building an archive of programme information and schedules.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

Selected titles from the series, with full text.

Complete searchable collection of over 8,000 speeches and other statements, with full texts of many, as well as over 1,000 other documents relating to Margret Thatcher's personal and political life. Includes biography and bibliography.

"The Theological Commons is a digital library of over 50,000 books on theology and religion. It is a digital initiative of the Princeton Theological Seminary Library. It includes the T.F. Torrance Collection of antiquarian books."

The TLG digital library now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, in excess of 80 million words. Topics include Greek literature, history, and culture.

Digital online versions of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) and the Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL), replace the former CD-ROM versions of BTL 4 and TLL 5. They offer both an extension of the data, and a fundamentally remodelled user interface which allows a search of both databases.

This website provides a central access point for Canadian theses. It allows one to search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the Library and Archives Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965, and free access to the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from 1998 onwards.

Nonfiction rules! When you walk into a classroom awash in nonfiction, you know it--no quiet kids sitting at desks here. Instead we see them chattering a mile a minute over a photograph of the jaws of a great white shark or brimming with questions while poring over books about the underground railroad. Join Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis, authors of Strategies That Work, in Barb Smith's reading workshop as her students begin to explore the wild and wooly world of nonfiction where merely getting the facts isn't enough. Nonfiction readers need to merge their thinking with the information to learn, understand, and remember it. In Think Nonfiction!the focus is on comprehension strategies for gaining information--specifically noticing new learning, asking questions, and determining importance. We watch Stephanie and Anne teach alongside Barb as she launches a nonfiction study and helps kids learn how to read for information, choose a topic, and do research. Stephanie does a mini-lesson to model how she stops and thinks when she encounters new information as she reads. Anne and Barb demonstrate how they read as partners and respond to new information. Then Barb, Anne, and Stephanie move about the room conferring with kids as they read a nonfiction article and use these strategies to enhance their understanding. The video culminates in a conversation among the three of them as they think through nonfiction instruction that supports kids as they read to learn and engage in independent research. Barb models her own research process and shares her kids' unique ways of organizing their thinking and bringing learning to life. An integral study guide makes this affordable resource a welcome addition to your professional library.

With the advent of RTI (Response to Intervention), teachers everywhere are spending part of their day teaching in small groups. In Think Small! master teacher and author Debbie Diller plans and teaches various small-group lessons with students at different reading levels while the rest of the class works independently at literacy work stations. Teachers learn how to form groups, organize for small-group instruction, choose books, write lesson plans, and support student independence so they can teach more effectively in small groups with young readers. Debbie works with pre-emergent readers on rhyming and oral language in small groups. She teaches two differentiated lessons with an emergent group that focuses on learning high-frequency words, both in reading and writing. Other small-group lessons include a focus on fluency and comprehension in guided reading with first-grade readers. and a dynamic, engaging whole-group reading lesson in which Debbie models a skill all students need and later takes this same skill to small group. DVD extras feature a tour of the kindergarten small-group area, and an overview of the planning process and lesson structure. Think Small! -- particularly when used in conjunction with Debbie's book Making the Most of Small Groups -- is ideal for professional study groups or staff development programs designed to help teachers deliver more focused small group instruction. The program includes an extensive viewing guide with questions, work samples, and reproducibles for groups.

A digitized version of the Early English Books microfilm collection, this database contains full-text page images of of about 100,000 of the 1250,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection. Also includes a growing collection of searchable full text provided by the EEBO Text Creation Partnership. Illustrations in the books may be searched and viewed separately as well as in conjunction with the text.

Thomson ONE Banker provides access to financial data on public companies, as well as merger and acquisition information and market data. Users can search and screen across databases to identify companies that meet your specific investment criteria as well as conduct peer analysis.

"Thomson Research", formerly known as Global Access, is a comprehensive, searchable financial database of U.S. and international companies. The database includes real-time and historical SEC filings, scanned images of annual reports, full-text articles and summaries from the financial and business press. Financial reports are downloadable to Excel and include ten year histories. Included in the service is access to the following databases: Business & Industry database, Business & Management Practices and Table Base.

Teachers of adolescent readers face many challenges. Some students are skilled at decoding text but have few strategies for understanding complex genres. Others have entered their teen years struggling to decode even the simplest books and articles. Through her highly successful book, I Read It, but IDon't Get It, Cris Tovani, a high school teacher in Denver,Colorado, has provided welcome advice to teachers on the reading strategies that worked in her classroom. Now, Cris' practical and inspiring ideas for teaching reading come to life in the video series, Thoughtful Reading. This four-part series shows Cris working with a wide range of students, from college-bound seniors to students who have been referred to her classroom because of their struggles with reading. You'll see Cris leading the whole class, launching small-group activities, thinking through instructional design, teaching individual students, and assessing learner needs and strengths. The series includes examples of how to: design small-group instruction; teach students to work together in groups; initiate one-on-one conferences with students; teach comprehension strategies to the whole class; help students learn to monitor their reading through notes, logs, and discussions; create "comprehension constructors" and other instruction tools that link reading, writing, and thinking; promote student independence through whole-class discussions and student presentations; provide a range of genres to meet the needs of diverse students. Prepare to enter a remarkable high school classroom where students who are reluctant to read are developing new skills and redefining their sense of themselves as readers. You'll leave with a wealth of ideas for instruction, energized by new possibilities for helping students.

Journey with Tony Stead as he explores many amazing ways to make nonfiction reading and writing come alive in the classroom. This four-part video set takes you inside two classrooms at The Manhattan New School where Tony works with first-grade teacher Lauren Benjamin and third-grade teacher Lisa Elias Moynihan. Watch how literacy centers literally come alive in the classroom and see some of the original ways students respond to their nonfiction reading. Learn how to organize a nonfiction classroom library and to support children as they select appropriate texts. From learning about frogs, crows, and static electricity, to debating whether zoos should exist, you'll enjoy watching the whole-class mini-lessons that successfully integrate the content areas with language process.

Full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-2007. It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

A searchable collection of full text newspapers. Updates generally occur within 48 hours of print.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

The TLG digital library now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, in excess of 80 million words. Topics include Greek literature, history, and culture.

Digital online versions of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) and the Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL), replace the former CD-ROM versions of BTL 4 and TLL 5. They offer both an extension of the data, and a fundamentally remodelled user interface which allows a search of both databases.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

TOCS-IN provides a searchable index of tables of contents of a selection of journals in classics and classical studies, beginning in 1992. It covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature, and Greek and Roman history, archaeology, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography, with additional coverage in the Ancient Near East and religion. About ten percent of the entries link to the full text of the articles.

Nineteenth-century serials edition is a collection of six full-text British 19th century newspapers and journals: Monthly repository (1806-1837), Unitarian chronicle (1832-1833), Northern star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English woman's journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870), and Publisher's circular (1880-1890). Digitization was a collaboration between Arts and Humanities Research Council, Birkbeck College, King's College London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, the British Library, and Olive Software. The titles were chosen for their emphasis upon social issues, political reform, and women's rights issues.

"The Lyell Collection is an online collection comprising of the Society's journal titles, Special Publications and key book series."--About.

"Translation Studies Abstracts (TSA) is a substantial database containing abstracts from leading journals, online publications, collected volumes, and doctoral theses in translation studies and related disciplines. The Bibliography of Translation (BTS) consists of abstracts of authored and collected volumes, and descriptions of leading journals in the field of Translation Studies (BTSJ)."--FAQ page.

The Translation Studies Bibliography online covers research in translation and interpretation studies. Included are books, articles in journals and books and book reviews from 1994 onward.

"On this site you will find William Caxton's two editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, probably printed in 1476 and 1483. The originals are both in the British Library. In the Background section you can find information on Caxton's life and about how he became involved with printing. You can find links to some web resources on Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales in our Links section and further reading in References. You can also view a Timeline". (Home page)

"On this site you will find the British Library's two copies of Johann Gutenberg's Bible, the first real book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s. In the Background section you can find out about Gutenberg, how he produced the Bible and the texts he printed. There is also a section about the digitisation of the Bibles. Other web resources on Gutenberg appear in our Links section and further reading in References. You can also view a Timeline"

"Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in history. Examine the British Library's copy close-up, translate it into English, hear what our curator says about it, and explore a timeline" (Home page)

View 253 digitised Renaissance festival books (selected from over 2,000 in the British Library's collection) that describe the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 - marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, coronations, stately entries into cities and other grand events.

Contains the full text of the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642. These pamphlet editions are thought to be working drafts of the plays, and as such are thought to be the closest versions of the way the plays were actually performed.

This is an extensive online database of UK television and radio programmes including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations), all national and many local radio stations. Includes the option to set up email alerts ahead of transmission. Data is available at least 10 days before transmission, building an archive of programme information and schedules.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

Why do so many children have such a hard time learning to read? What is at stake for them? Who can help them? This revealing documentary makes the important connection between early trouble with reading and serious behavioral problems in the classroom. The film looks into the lives of four schoolchildren who struggle to read while their classmates progress to higher levels of achievement.We discover their shame, frustration and coping strategies as a pattern emerges stemming from reading problems. Their home lives reveal common obstacles to learning: language barriers, social status, emotional problems and sensory deficiencies. Arturo, a rowdy seven-year-old, brings his teacher's reading lesson to a grinding halt. At recess, Melody, a fourth grader who reads at a first grade levels, shoves classmates half her size. Sparring in a boxing gym, Hakeem, sixteen, recounts his expulsion from school for aggressiveness and truancy.The film shows that a tutoring program can dramatically improve reading skills. Hakeem describes his progress from fourth grade level to tenth after three years of tutoring. Unfortunately, more children need help than is available.

"Translation Studies Abstracts (TSA) is a substantial database containing abstracts from leading journals, online publications, collected volumes, and doctoral theses in translation studies and related disciplines. The Bibliography of Translation (BTS) consists of abstracts of authored and collected volumes, and descriptions of leading journals in the field of Translation Studies (BTSJ)."--FAQ page.

The TRIP Database searches over 75 sites of high-quality medical information. The TRIP Database gives you direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc.

Provides unique online access to the listings of the London edition of the TVTimes from September 1955-March 1985. Covers all ITV and Channel 4 programmes.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of education ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century.

Kelly Gallagher's Twenty Questions is an alternative to traditional high school homework assignments that fosters greater text comprehension. The simple designђ́ؤstudents write twenty questions as they read assigned textђ́ؤbelies the complexity of the discussion fostered by the student-generated questions. On this day, students use the assignment to respond to George Orwell's 1984 in small-group and whole-class discussions.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.