Education Source provides full text access for more than 1,800 journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for thousands more. Also including are full text for 550 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. Education Source is an upgrade from Education Research Complete.

Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Source also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.

Contains instructional materials for K-12 fiction and nonfiction books.

Coverage: Varies

Bibliographic descriptions and availability information for more than 5 million books currently in print, declared out of print, or soon to be published titles. Records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers.

Includes scholarly, adult, juvenile, and popular books on all subjects, and audio book and video titles.
Coverage: Coverage varies

The Children's Core Collection (formerly Children's Catalog) covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, graphic novels, and magazines recommended for readers in preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids for children's librarians and school media specialists. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available. The catalog also includes an annotated list of recommended web resources for children and professionals working with children.

Selected and recommended by specialists in library service to children, listed books encompass a wide variety of topics, including a new abundance of books on technology, social sciences, and sciences.

Coverage: Latest edition (2009)

For libraries serving readers in grades five through nine, Middle and Junior High Core Collection provides indispensable help with collection development and maintenance, curriculum support, readers' advisory, and general reference. Included are thousands of entries for nonfiction works, fiction, and collections for children and adolescents, plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists.

Selected and recommended by specialists in library service to young people, listed books encompass a wide variety of topics for youth. Among nonfiction entries, special importance is given to works devoted to technology, personal values, and current social and political issues, with special emphasis on ethnic diversity. Fiction entries encompass a broad spectrum of literary works that are of interest to young readers and many that are frequently part of the school curriculum—classics as well as contemporary fiction and genre literature.

Coverage: 1988-present