Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge governance, where various national attributes have been evaluated under international comparative assessment. Reflecting this…

Updated to include the 2012 award and honor books, this new edition of the annual guide to the Newbery and Caldecott awards gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children's literature and illustration since the inception of the renowned prizes. Librarians and teachers everywhere rely on this guidebook for quick reference…

Updated to include the 2011 award and honor books, this new edition of the annual guide to the Newbery and Caldecott awards gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children's literature and illustration since the inception of the renowned prizes. Librarians and teachers everywhere rely on this guidebook for quick reference…

The new "International Handbook of Universities" is now 2-volumes and includes single-user access to World Higher Education Database Online. This "Twenty-second Edition" is the most comprehensive guide to university-level education worldwide, providing detailed information on higher education institutions that offer at least a post-graduate degree…

This author and subject index covers National Teachers' Association proceedings volumes from 1857 to 1870, as well as National Educational Association proceedings volumes from 1871 to 1897.

This analytical index covers the 31 volumes of Barnard's "American Journal of Education," from 1855 to 1881. This work of Dr. Henry Barnard, the first United States Commissioner of Education, contains thirty-one volumes of some eight hundred pages each. In its publication Dr. Barnard used the best years of his life and all of his private…

Like the preceding volumes of the "American Journal of Education," Volume 5 includes portraits from engravings on steel of eminent teachers, educators, and promoters of education, and a large number of wood-cuts, illustrative of recent improvements in the structure, furniture, and arrangements of buildings designed for educational uses.…

Including over 80,000 references, this index is the cumulation of the annual indexes of the "Horn Book Magazine" from 1924 to 1989. The index was undertaken so that subject access to 65 years of the "Horn Book Magazine" could be provided, along with access to book titles and the names of authors, illustrators, and other…

More than 1000 general reference works on the Canadian mass media by Canadians or by authors living in Canada are listed alphabetically by author and cross-indexed by various areas of concern. Included are studies on the sociology, history, politics, and economics of the media. A few non-Canadian works are included because they are considered…

This index provides access to the combined collections of some 400 oral history centers which house recordings or transcripts of interviews of more than 2,700 persons. The index is arranged in two parts: a name and subject index, and a list of American and foreign oral history centers. Information that applies to all the interviews in a collection…

This timely book provides a foundation in library and electronic research in the fields of nursing and allied health. It explains essential sources and techniques that can be used by nursing students, healthcare researchers, and nurse practitioners who need to gather information independently. Pathways to Nursing covers both physical libraries and…

This monograph presents a comprehensive bibliography of all reading tests published in English-speaking countries as of May 1, 1968, as well as a classified index to all tests and reviews in the six Mental Measurements Yearbooks (MMY). The MMY Test Index is a master index or key to all tests, reviews, excerpts, and references to be found in The…

A citation study investigated the coverage by abstracting and indexing services of literature dealing with the environmental effects of the forest and forest products industries, the impact of man on the forest ecology, and methods for maximizing forest tree utilization. A search of nine secondary sources (abstracting and indexing services)…

This cumulative index merges information on 8,372 reference books and CD-ROMs that appeared in ARBA (American Reference Books Annual) from 1995-99. The first section is an author/title index. Entries contain the author's name or title of the reference work with ARBA year and entry number. The second section is a subject index that uses terms based…

An international compendium of periodicals indexed and/or abstracted in regularly appearing services, this document includes more than 30,000 listings of periodicals, serials, services, and yearbooks in the humanities and social sciences. Listing is alphabetical by periodical title. Under each title appear all the services that index it. This…