New Web Tool Helps Both Experts and Public Grasp Colleges' Costs

"This week the group released a Web-based database that tracks the spending and revenue sources of 2,300 public and private institutions. The database, Trends in College Spending Online, tracks a wide array of categories at each college, enabling comparisons among institutions, states, and sectors."

Trends in College Spending Database

Finding Accession Numbers for Dissertations

Using The FirstSearch Dissertations Database

1. Go to the Find Articles page at http://www3.dbu.edu/library/online_databases.asp
2. Put your cursor on "Graduate Research" and click on "All Collections (FirstSearch)"
3. Log in to the database by entering your ID and Password
4. Scroll down the page a bit and click on the "Dissertations" link at left
5. Search for the dissertation you want
6. The accession number is found at the bottom of the dissertation record

Highlights of the 40th PDK/Gallup Poll

The highlights of the poll are found here.

Digest of Education Statistics, 2009

"The Digest contains data on a variety of topics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, and federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons."

The NEA 2010 Almanac of Higher Education

From this site, you can view the current almanac and also earlier editions of it.

Interactive Management Case Studies

Here is a set of interactive case studies from Businessweek.

New Research Site - OpenThesis.org

"OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools."

Benchmarks: The Typical Small Group

"Because it is difficult to get a handle on what is going on in other small groups outside of your own (or your own church), SmallGroups.com does live surveys each month on a variety of small-group topics. The purpose of these surveys is to uncover a sense of what is going on in small groups around the world, and particularly in North America. . . .here are some results of SmallGroups.com surveys on the subject of what goes on during typical small-group meetings."

World Leaders - An Online Directory

"The CIA publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments regularly. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States."

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet

"This service of the Library of Congress, features information on current legislation, the Congressional Record, links to Committee reports, and more." (Refdesk.com)

Free Online Handbook on Educational Technology

To help get colleges thinking about how they might adapt their teaching styles to the new ways students absorb and process information, Mr. Siemens and Peter Tittenberger, director of the center, have created a Web-based guide, called the Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning.

Web Dictionary Plans to Outdo Print Cousins

"The revolutionary new dictionary Wordnik, set to go online this week, provides the curious logophile with all these features and more, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Harnessing the native capabilities of the Internet, Wordnik definitions include images scraped from Flickr, audio recordings of pronunciations, and ratings of definitions by other users. The project includes 4 billion words and offers sample sentences plucked at random from the web."

Statistics: School Enrollment in the U.S. 2006

Statistics: School Enrollment in the U.S. 2006. Note that statistics for previous years are also available.

The National Center for Education Statistics

The National Center for Education Statistics, located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. (Refdesk.com)

The NEA Higher Education Almanac 2008

The NEA Higher Education Almanac 2008. Note that you also can view earlier editions of the almanac from this site.

Zotero

Zotero is a sophisticated free product that works is a somewhat similar way to Ref Works (a $6,000 database). Here is what Zotero says about its product - Zotero "is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself."

FedStats

"FedStats provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic. FedStats is your one location for access to the full breadth of Federal statistical information." (Refdesk.com)

Web sites for ESL/Foreign Language

I. General ( Big Sites )
CENTER
English Day
ESL RESOURCE Ohio University
Using English
ESLgold
ESLTower.com

Writing
The Purdue Online Writing Lab
Guide to grammar and writing
Writing Handouts
Thesaurus

Reading
ESL/EFL Teaching/Learning Resources Reading
Ohio University Writing Center
Online Newspaper
Newspaper Voyager
Online Public Library

Grammar
Grammar Central
Grammar Bytes

Listening
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
History and Politics Out Loud

Interactive quizzes and exercises
Interesting things for ESL students
English exercises online
Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students

II. Language helps
Dictionary

III. Language Tests
SAT Preparation
TOEFL

ESL Test

IV. English Radios
National Public Radio

VI. Journal
Language Learning & Technology
The Internet TESL Journal

ESL Resources for Teachers
ESLTower.com
ESL Curriculum and Activities

Leadership Journals on the Internet

AASA Bulletin (School Administrators)

Academic Leadership

Academic Open Internet Journal

Advancing Women in Leadership Online Journal

African Journal of Business Management

American School and University

American School Board Journal

Association of Leadership Educators

Australian Journal of Management

Business Leader

Business Performance Management

California Management Review

Calvin Theological Seminary Quarterly

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy. CJEAP

Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
(Some Articles are Free)

Chief Executives

Education Next

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Education Statistics Quarterly

Educause Quarterly Online

Educause Review

Educational Leadership

E-Journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership

Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies

Getting Results…For the Hands-On Manager

International Electronic Journal for Educational Policy and Leadership

The International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning

International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management

International Journal of Electronic Business Management

Journal for Leadership Education

Journal of behavioral and applied management.

Journal of cases in educational leadership.

Journal of College and Character

Journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership

Journal of research for educational leaders

Leadership

Leadership: A Practical Journal for Religious Leaders

Leadership Advance Online

Leadership in Action

Leader to Leader (Some FT Articles)

McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry

Presidency

Principal Magazine

Public Administration and Management

Public Personnel Management

Research and Practice in Human Management

School Administrator

University Business

Wharton Leadership Digest

Searching Beyond the DBU Databases

Free Article Databases

Directory of Open Access Journals - This site provides an advanced search for finding articles among the 1,224 journals searchable in this way. Various academic topics are included among those journals.

FindArticles.com - The site now provides both basic and advanced search options and provides access to thousands of publications and over 10 million articles.

Open J-Gate - Searchable collection of 4,732 Open Access Journals. The site states that "Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain."

Free Dissertation/Thesis Search Sites

Australian Digital Theses Program - this site provides both citation and full-text access to a few thousand theses and dissertations published in Australia.

The British Library - The British Library provides access to citations of theses from British universities (most doctoral theses from the early 1970s onward), from the United States (475,000 doctoral theses), and from Canada (several hundred doctoral theses from 1980 forward).

Center for Research Libraries - Twenty thousand doctoral dissertations from outside of the United States and Canada are searchable from this site. Items can be ordered through ILL by students, faculty, and staff.

Digital Library and Archives - Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.

NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - NDLTD provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format. A significant number of these resources are freely available in full-text and can be viewed online.

RIM: Research in Ministry Online - “RIM® Online is a freely available database that indexes DMin and DMiss projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981.”

Theses Canada Portal -
Theses Canada provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection. Access to full-text theses is available for all items published between January 1, 1998 to August 31, 2002.

TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network - TREN provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers. Items can then be purchased through this site. The opening page actually states that they have 10,000 theses/dissertations, but the search page allows searching of 6,800 items.

Citation Databases (No Full Text)

ERIC - ERIC is a large citation database related to the field of education. It also addresses many other topics related to education, such as leadership, psychology, motivation, etc. When you find articles cited here, you can then get the full articles through the DBU databases or through DBU’s Interlibrary Loan service.

IngentaConnect - IntentaCollect allows you to search through over 25 million articles, chapters, reports, etc. They provide you will a full bibliographical citation for each item, and you then can order the article through DBU’s Interlibrary Loan service or find it on DBU’s online databases.

Google – You can locate full-text reports, studies, and dissertations related to leadership by searching via Google. For instance, when searching Transformational Leadership Dissertation, the second item listed is a full-text Ed.D. dissertation. One likewise could search Transformational Leadership Survey or Transformational Leadership Report and find results.