This comprehensive handbook provides quick access to a wide range of information needed by professionals in all areas and at all levels of education. It includes books, journals, software, and standardized tests. Six sections are as follows: (1) information sources (including information sources by type and guide to reference sources in education); (2) author's guide to publications (including journals in education and related disciplines, author's guide to book publishers in education and academic subjects, and microcomputer software publishers in education and academic subjects); (3) microcomputer software for educational research (describing nonstatistical and statistical packages); (4) standardized tests and inventories (including reviews of tests and inventories and summary list of test publishers); (5) research processes in education (containing information on linking research questions to research designs and statistical procedures, summaries of research designs, statistical procedures, and sampling techniques, and a research process checklist); and (6) selected national and regional organizations in education (providing a classification of national and regional education organizations and profiles of national and regional education organizations). (SM)