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Globalization: A Research Guide to Resources in the Princeton University Library
Without a professional school in Education, Princeton does not collect at a comprehensive level many books in education, education documents or education journals. Therefore it is especially important to use the full text aspect of the two sources listed below to get the text of articles and reports important for exploration of the effects on education of Globalization. If you need journal articles and books in education that Princeton does not hold in paper or electronic format, request through the Interlibrary Loan srvice.
1. Statistical Measures on Education Important statistical measures for education, a critical concept in the globalized world, are reported by UNESCO and by OECD. The World Education Report, published about every two years by UNESCO, is held at Princeton in the United Nations Collection in the Social Science Reference Center on A Floor in Firestone Library. The call number is (UN) L101.A2W67q, and the volumes held are for 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2000. A number of education and literacy data seriesreported here by UNESCO are also found in the database UNData, formerly called the UN Common Database. Countries of the OECD are covered in more detail in the annual OECD print publication Education at a Glance, Current volume for 2008 in SSRC, older volumes 1992-2007 in Firestone stacks, call number LB2846.E247, also electronic through link in Princeton's Main Catalog.. OECD statistics on education can also be found in SourceOECD. Also useful in UNESCO's own statisticazl databases. 2. Education Resources: ERIC subscription databases ERIC,
the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information
Center
database,
3.. Education Full Text subscription database Education Full Text indexes 534 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks, with full text for articles in 249 of those journals. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based education, and information technology..
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