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Education Research Guide

Guide to resources for research in education.

Recommended Databases

  • Academic Search Premier Best Bet

    [Ebsco] Access to more than 13,000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in all academic disciplines from 1975 to the present.

  • ERIC (EBSCO) Best Bet
    [Ebsco] ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) is the primary database for education literature. It includes both journal articles (EJ numbers) and other reports(ED numbers) from 1966 to the present. Early ED numbers may be available on microfiche, more recent ED numbers are primarily online. The database is available from different vendors with article linking as well as from the freely available website.
  • Gale eBooks Best Bet
    [Gale] Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Provides searchable full-text e-book versions of over 3,500 reference works, including multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. in a wide range of subject areas.
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) Best Bet

    [Ebsco] Provides a wide range of research resources, including subject coverage in the applied sciences, art, education, humanities, law, social sciences, and technology.

  • Child Development & Adolescent Studies
    [Ebsco] Premier index for growth and development of children through age 21. All formats, 1927 to present.
  • Child Welfare Information Gateway
    • Open Access
    Information about child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion from the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
  • Dissertations and Theses Global: the Humanities and Social Sciences Collection
    [ProQuest] Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the Humanities and Social Sciences from around the world. Most U.S. dissertations and theses are available full text.
  • Google Scholar
    Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • PsycINFO
    [Ebsco] Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO is a comprehensive international database of psychology literature.
  • Sociological Abstracts

    [ProQuest] Comprehensive database of scholarly literature from the field of sociology, social and behavioral sciences, with some coverage of criminology and criminal justice studies. The database provides access to abstracts, citations, and some full-text coverage of journal articles, serial publications, books, book reviews, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Getting the Full Text

If you find an article citation in a library database and can't locate the PDF or HTML full text, try clicking on the "Find the FULL TEXT" button. 

Logo that states "Find the Full Text"

This will link to a page that will tell you if the articles is available in full text in another database. If not, you'll see a link to our interlibrary loan service.

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