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Education

Resources for doing research on an education topic.

ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)

Other Selected Library Databases with Education Content

Education Abstracts (with Full Text)

An index of journal articles covering a wide range of education topics. Education Abstracts covers journals comprehensively. It is a smaller database than ERIC and there is overlap of journal titles but there are some journals covered in Education Abstracts that are not indexed in ERIC. Use the MGetIt link to navigate to the full text of the articles that are available online.


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PsycInfo

Citations to literature in psychology and related disciplines. Includes citations to journal articles, books, chapters from books, and dissertations.

Note the many useful limiters that are available in the Advanced Search including: Age Groups, as well as Empirical Study, Qualitative Study, and Literature Review (in Methodology). Use the MGetIt link to navigate to the full text of the journal articles that are available online. Dissertations that are not available online from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

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Sociological Abstracts

Citations to literature in sociology. Includes citations to journal articles, books, chapters from books, dissertations, and conference proceedings.

Use the MGetIt link to navigate to the full text of the journal articles that are available online. Dissertations that are not available online from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses can be requested through Interlibrary Loan. To retrieve Sociological Abstracts' association papers, you must contact the author of the paper.

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Web of Science

An interdisciplinary index of scholarly journals from all fields of study. Besides searching by author, topic, etc. it is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work using the Cited Reference Search link. Use the MGetIt link to navigate to the full text of the journal articles that are available online.

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Higher Education Abstracts

Abstracts from journals, conference proceedings, and research reports. Very clunky interface but leads to some useful citations.

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Education Administration Abstracts

 

British Education Index - Free Collections Searches the pre-print literature in the field of education and training provided by the British Education Index.
Chinese Educational Resources Information Centre Developed in Honk Kong, this database aims to emulate ERIC in providing resources relevant to those researching education in Chinese societies.
EdResearch Online Search entries from the Australian Education Index. Use Interlibrary Loan to get free access to articles the University Library does not own.
Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities

Publishing information about education journals in educational technology, curriculum and methods, and educational psychology and administration. Includes acceptance rates.

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ProQuest Research Library

Indexes over 5,000 journals and magazines, academic and popular, with full text included for over 3,600, including many in the area of education.

Web of Knowledge

Provides cross-search of multiple databases: ISI Web of Science with Conference Proceedings (citation indexes), Current Contents Connect (tables of contents), Biosis Previews, and Medline. Also provides links (under "Additional Resources") to Journal Citation Reports, Scientific WebPlus, ISIHighlyCited.com, BiologyBrowser, Index to Organism Names, ResearcherID.com, and Science Watch.