Internet Sites
America's Best Colleges (from US
News)
Browse the rankings and use the collection of tools to conduct an advanced
college search and college comparisons.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php
CollegeNET Home Page
The CollegeNET search engine helps you quickly find the ideal college.
Narrow down by region, college sports, major, tuition, and several other
criteria. Hotlink from your search list directly to homepages of the schools
in which you are interested. Review, compare, and sort schools according to
exclusive, detailed profiles provided by ACT.
http://www.collegenet.com/elect/app/app
FastWeb: Financial Aid Search Through the Web
Free financial aid research service, based on variables such as gender,
religion, heritage, hobbies, career objectives, work experience, or others.
Utilizes a database of over 275,000 awards.
http://www.fastweb.com
FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page
Extensive information includes topics such as aid for the disabled,
international students, government information, discussion groups, links to
financial aid department home pages, more.
http://www.finaid.org/
FAFSA
Free Application for Federal Student
Aid
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
Petersons Education Center
Contains college profiles, financial aid tools, and more.
http://www.petersons.com/
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Databases
Education
Research Complete (Login
required off-campus)
This bibliographic and full text database provided by EBSCOhost covers scholarly
research and information relating to all areas of education. 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 Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction
as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database
provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full
text for more than 750 journals. This database also includes full text for more
than 100 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related
conference papers.
ERIC
(Login
required off-campus)
EBSCO's version of the ERIC database includes more than 1 million abstracts
of education-related documents and journal articles from early childhood education
through adult education. Coverage: 1966-present. Updated: monthly.
Additional access available: http://www.eric.ed.gov/
(free version available from the United States Department of Education)
The
Chronicle (Login required off-campus)
This online version of the print serial covers the current weeks developments
in education. Includes educational statistics, and a searchable listing of the
job advertisements appearing in that week's Chronicle. Complete access includes
all of the premium content generally reserved for print subscribers. Full text
from the current issue is posted every Monday morning; and the previous issue
is added to a searchable archive of issues dating back to September 1989. The
Chronicle's web site is updated daily with news of academe from across the nation
and around the world. This information is also added to the online archive.
The
Chronicle (Community College Newsletter) (Login required off-campus)
Additional databases
available at: http://library.sunyocc.edu/databases/
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