Gov Docs: Government Databases, Data Sets & Registries: Education

SOUTHcat is the catalog for the libraries at the University of South Alabama. Use this to find records for books, electronic books, media items, and government documents in our collection.

The list of electronic databases and reference sources subscribed to by the Marx Library. Use this link to find newspaper, magazine, and academic journal articles from a variety of sources.

The list of newspapers, magazines, and journals subscribed to by the library. Use this to search a specific periodical or to locate a citation.

Contact information for the reference department at the Marx Library. Includes phone, email, and live chat information.

(formerly Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance)
--Assistance listings are detailed public descriptions of federal programs that provide grants, loans, scholarships, insurance, and other types of assistance awards. You may browse assistance listings across all government agencies to learn about potential funding sources.

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
"... allows you to search for individual citations from journal articles that have been published using data from most research programs conducted by NCES. The bibliography is updated continually and includes citations from 1973 to present. The list of citations was derived from computer searches of online bibliographic databases (i.e., EBSCO, JSTOR, EconLit, Dissertation Abstracts), ERIC, as well as the NCES website."

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
"... your direct link to nearly 7,000 colleges and universities in the United States. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community college, a career or technical college or a trade school, you can find information on all of them here. "

U.S. Dept. of Education
-- contains information reported to the U.S. Department of Education directly by recognized accrediting agencies and state approval agencies.

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
"Online table and regression maker tools featuring 30+ federal education datasets. Contains three powerful tools for your analytical needs: QuickStats – Allows novice users to create simple tables and charts; PowerStats – Allows researchers to create complex tables and logistic and linear regressions; and TrendStats – Allows researchers to create complex tables spanning multiple data collection years. Also, contains the Tables Library which houses 5000+ published analysis tables by topic, publication, and source. "

NASA
Search by grade level, type and subject

Reports on federally funded education research topics from the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resources Information Center from 1995 to 2004

U.S. Dept. of education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Reports on federally funded education research topics

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
"... an interactive online tool with data from international assessments and surveys, such as PISA and TIMSS. Use the IDE to explore student and adult performance on assessments and survey results for thousands of variables for the U.S. and other countries"

U.S. Dept. of Education
--Centralized source for information relating to the federal financial assistance programs.
Four Categories: Student Aid Data; School Data; Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program Lender and Guaranty Agency Reports; and Business Information Resources.

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
"The data for this search tool comes directly from the 30,000 plus private schools that responded to the 2003-2004 Private School Universe Survey (PSS) conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics."

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
"Use the Search For Public School Districts locator to retrieve information on all U.S. public school districts. This data is collected annually directly from State Education Agencies (SEAs). "

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
"Use the Search For Public Schools locator to retrieve information on all U.S. public schools. This data is collected annually directly from State Education Agencies (SEAs). "

Institute of Education Sciences
National Center for Education Statistics

National Center for Education Statistics

Data.gov

U.S. Census Bureau