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Global Studies in Education

The University Library is one of the largest in the United States with over 11 million titles in its collection. Navigation is often difficult both virtually and in person. Below you will find links to some of the resources you need to know about for efficient and effective use of these resources. Welcome!

• Academic Library Outreach Services - Provides you with the tools you will need to access and receive materials from the University Library including information concerning setting up your account, requesting materials, and returning materials to the Library.
• University Library Gateway - Links you directly to the main page of the University Library with access to a large number of catalogs and databases.
  • Illinet Online Catalog - The consortial catalog for the State of Illinois.
  • Online Research Resources - Connection to the electronic resources of UIUC.
• Education and Social Science Library - Here you will find links to a wide variety of resources targeted specifically to the needs of the scholar of educational policy studies. Resources include guides to curriculum materials, general education studies, and the many fields that overlap the concentration in policy studies.
• Resources for Global Studies in Education Cohort
• Guides to Other Library Resources - Find tutorials and virtual guides to the materials best suited for your research in specific classes as well as to a variety of more general resources.
  • Basic information for researchers and scholars:
    • The Research Process
    • Avoiding Plagiarism
    • Copyright and Intellectual Property
    • Citing Print and Electronic Resources
  • Statistics in the Social Sciences - This guide, prepared by the Education and Social Science Library will lead you to a variety of statistical resources with an emphasis on U.S. and government statistics.
  • International Statistics - This guide, prepared by the European Union Studies Center will lead you to a large number of statistical resources throughout the world.
• Center for Global Studies - The Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is funded through a Department of Education Title VI grant to explore the issues surrounding globalization. The following resources may be relevant to your studies:
  • Globalization and Education Resources - Web resources providing a variety of perspectives on the interrelationship of education and globalization to help support work in the K-12 classroom.
  • Resources for K-12 - Many excellent sources can be found here concerning the internationalization of the classroom, including links to the Illiois International High School Initiative, iEARN professional development modules, workshops, conferences, and K-12 teaching materials on the web.
  • Virtual Book Shelf - The Center for Global Studies provides a selected list of materials that may be of interest for this class. This page provides links to the catalog as well as scanned covers of books and their tables of contents. Use the "find" function on your browser to see the titles that have been received on the topic of education.

For comments on this page contact: Global Studies Librarian

Last modified by: Brent Fegley on 9/26/08