Education and Cafyde resources
Databases
Complete Freedom Collection (ELSEVIER)
The Elsevier Freedom Collection is a service that provides access to the full text of around 1,700 scientific, medical and technical journals from the Elsevier Group.
Publishers included in the Freedom Collection include Academic Press, Pergamon, W. B. Saunders, Mosby, North Holland, Churchill Livingston, JAI and ESME.
Belongs to the Education Resource Information Center. Contains more than 1,300,000 records with references to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
- Tutorial [SPA]
E-premium service with unlimited access to Graó's collection of journal articles. Contents on current educational issues, experiences, good practices in school life, focused on future education professionals or those researching on educational issues.
Research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- Quick guide [SPA]
International database with multilingual interface (Spanish, English and Portuguese) that facilitates the bibliographic search and access to the full text of scientific publications on Psychology, Education and other related disciplines.
SAGE Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Package
Online platform containing over 660 Humanities and Social Science journals with full-text access from 1999 to the present. They include peer-review journals, many of which have an impact factor in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Highlights include education and special education.
Provides access to the full text of some 1,400 journals (generally since 1997) published by John Wiley and Sons. The dominant language of the articles is English. The subject matter covers both scientific and humanities fields.
Free databases
Catalogue of Ministry of Education and Vocational Training Publications
International Bibliographic Database on Higher Education
HEDBIB is a database on higher education, administration, planning and evaluation. It is managed by the International Association of Universities, UNESCO, the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Associació Catalana d'Universitats Públiques (ACUP), Higher Education South Africa (HESA), Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA), and Union de Universidades de América Latina (UDUAL). It contains approximately 40,000 records, some in full text.
Network of Educational Information Databases: Ibero-American research, innovations, resources and journals on education, with links to the full text document.
Statistics
Eurostat - Education and Training
Provides the European Union with statistics at European level to allow comparisons between countries and regions.
Includes statistics on staff, expenditure, foreign student enrolments, graduates by age and field of education, enrolment by type of institution and total population by gender and age. It also includes the international "PISA" study which was launched by the OECD in 1997.
Statistics of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training
Provides annual information on the educational activity of public and private non-university and university educational centres, economic resources, relations with the outside world, training and the labour market and indicators and summary publications.
General library resources
Reference works
European Thesaurus of Education Systems (TESE)
A multilingual thesaurus that is a powerful tool for searching information on European education systems and policies.
Offers free access to the Diccionario de la Lengua Española and Panhispánico, as well as possible linguistic queries.
Portals and search engines
Educared (Telefónica Foundation)
EducaRed proposes to generalise the Internet as a tool for innovation and pedagogical training among teachers, parents and students of primary, secondary, baccalaureate and intermediate training cycles with different resources.
RFE (Resources For Economist in Internet)
Portal with access to more than 2,000 resources on economics, available on the Internet, useful for both academic and professional purposes. It belongs to the American Economic Association.
Open access resources
Agrega 2 is an initiative developed jointly by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Red.es, and the Autonomous Communities. The Agrega federation of digital educational content repositories is a platform with nodes in all the Departments of Education of the Autonomous Communities. The educational materials available are organized according to the curriculum for pre-university levels and are prepared for direct download and use by teachers and students.
Repository belonging to Eprints3 that covers the areas of psychology, linguistics and philosophy.
Contains scientific production in Education published in Spain since the 1970s. It mainly contains articles from scientific journals and selectively conference proceedings, series, compilations, reports and monographs.
Web sites
+Education: Education Portal of the Community of Madrid
It offers services and information to all members of the educational community such as information, data search tools, didactic resources, interpersonal communication tools, training, advice, entertainment, etc.
Provides information and analysis on European education systems and policies. As of 2013, it consists of 40 national units established in the 36 countries participating in the EU Lifelong Learning Programme (Member States, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland).
Ministry of Education and Vocational Training
Informs about services available on its website such as education areas, press, grants, training, procedures and access to Public Education Portals of Institutes, Centres and Autonomous Communities.
Provides news, current issues and resources on education around the world and a specialised thesaurus on Education.