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• NC Department of Public Instruction The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction website provides data & reports on information such as testing results, teacher performance, school report cards and more!
• Data.gov A U.S. government website that aims to improve public access to high value, datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The site is a repository for federal, state, local, and tribal government data, made available to the public.
• EDDIE The Educational Directory and Demographical Information Exchange (EDDIE) is an online application containing The Educational Directory and Demographical Information Exchange (EDDIE) is an online application containing LEA (school district) and school information such as LEA numbers, school numbers, select administrative contacts, addresses, grade levels, calendar types, and more.
• NC School Report Cards NC School Report Cards is a user-friendly interactive site that provides data on all NC Public Schools report cards. This site was created by the NC Department of Public Instruction
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Use the search tools on this page to locate articles, journals, and a complete list of databases recommended for education. We have a ton of education databases that will help you with your research. Below are a few databases you can explore that are specific to education.

• Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Academic Search Premier covers the expansive academic disciplines offered in colleges and universities. It provides comprehensive content, including PDF backfiles to 1975 for many journals and searchable cited references for more than 1,000 titles.
• Education Source This link opens in a new window Education Source is the world's largest full-text research database designed for education students, professionals and policymakers. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for thousands of education journals, books and education-related conference papers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
• ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) This link opens in a new window Provides access to education literature and resources from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC. Links to available full text.
• Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar is a web search engine that finds scholarly literature, including papers, theses, books, and reports. By searching Google Scholar from the library’s webpage, you will have free linked access to the library’s subscription holdings. Other links from Google Scholar may prompt you to pay for articles, but DO NOT PAY for articles. We will help you get the articles you need.
• Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Find biographical information and excerpts of criticism in this online reference tool covering more than 130,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
• SIRS Discoverer This link opens in a new window Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students, SIRS Discoverer offers articles, nonfiction books, images, activities and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability.

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• Education Source This link opens in a new window Includes Education Abstracts and Education Index back to 1929, with full text for 1,700+ journals, 550 books and monographs, and education-related conference papers, plus citations for over 4 million articles and book reviews. Coverage spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education.
• ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Index and abstracts, with some full-text included. The premier bibliographic database covering the literature on education. Covers both journal articles and unpublished research documents. Updates: Ongoing
• JSTOR This link opens in a new window Back issues of core scholarly journals in subjects including African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. Includes free Early-Journal Content, journals published before 1923 in the U.S. and before 1870 outside of the U.S.
• Web of Science (WOS) This link opens in a new window Includes several citation indices covering sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Search by a specific index, or across all indices. Citations to articles in more than 8,000 major research journals. Also permits cited reference searching (searching for articles that cite a particular author or work).

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• Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window This academic multi-disciplinary database provides than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1887.
• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities This link opens in a new window Cabell's Directories helps scholars identify journals for publication and guides users in evaluating journal quality. Entries include contact information, manuscript guidelines, acceptance rates, review process, number of reviewers, and audience.
• Career and Technical Education This link opens in a new window Covers vocational and technical periodicals relevant to a vocational curriculum. Fields covered include technology, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, photography, forestry, criminal justice, nursing, and more.
• Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window The Chronicle's online version features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. To access Premium features, you must be on campus or logged into the GW VPN, or else create a free personal account using your GW email address.
• Counseling and Therapy in Video (Volumes I and IV) This link opens in a new window Counseling and Therapy in Video is an online collection of video for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. It provides a firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. GW has access to Volumes I and IV.
• Dissertations and Theses Online This link opens in a new window Contains information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities. Includes citations ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to ones accepted as recently as last semester. Of over 1.5 million titles listed, Proquest offers over a million in full text. For these titles, the citation includes the Proquest order number.
• EBL (Ebooks) This link opens in a new window Now part of Ebook Central.
• Emerald Library This link opens in a new window Full-text articles from management journals. Note that current content is not being added to this database.
• ERIC.gov This link opens in a new window ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
• Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Films on Demand is a streaming video platform for educational content from the Films Media Group. Films are provided as Flash Video streams, with Windows Media and QuickTime also available for most titles.
• Grant Forward This link opens in a new window Grant Forward (formerly called IRIS, the Illinois Researcher Information Service) contains over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, Grant Forward also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads. Users can search by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. Most records contain live links to sponsor Web sites or portals. It also displays upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas.
• LearnTechLib This link opens in a new window Online resource for aggregated, peer-reviewed research on the latest developments and applications in Learning and Technology.
• LexisNexis Academic: please use Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window This database has been replaced by Nexis Uni.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print Internacional This link opens in a new window Version of Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print that includes Spanish-language as well as English-language content. Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, it provides a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Contains information for evaluating test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Simultaneous users: 4
• Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Formerly LexisNexis Academic. Access to major newspapers from around the world, as well as: industry and market news; company financial information; general medical topics; accounting, auditing, and tax information; legal news, law reviews, and case law; and the U.S. and state codes. Please use Google Chrome or IE browsers with this database.
• Policy File Index This link opens in a new window Policy File Index includes full-text report, paper, document and other sources on U.S. public policy research including over 75 public policy topics (both foreign and domestic) from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
• Primary Search (Articles for Children) This link opens in a new window Access to more than 60 popular magazines for elementary school research.
• Project Muse This link opens in a new window Articles and reviews from peer-reviewed, scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
• ProQuest Education Database This link opens in a new window Abstracts and indexing of over 900 education journals, many in full-text.
• ProQuest Research Library Plus This link opens in a new window Covers a wide range of subject matter in both popular and scholarly periodicals. Also includes Proquest's Computing, Education, Religion, Science, Social Science and Telecommunication Journal modules.
• PsycINFO 1887-Current This link opens in a new window Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in the field of psychology. Includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, linguistics, business, law and more. Journal coverage, spanning from 1887 to present, includes international material.
• Qualitative Data Repository This link opens in a new window The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences and related disciplines.
• SAGE Research Methods Core This link opens in a new window Comprehensive online resource providing material to guide users through every step of the research process, including datasets, cases, books, articles and videos. For more information, see Sage Research Methods Libguide
• Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window Indexes over 260 titles from the teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
• TeachingBooks.net Original This link opens in a new window Includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.

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• ERIC the educational resources information center "The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC, established in 1966, is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and the National Library of Education" -- FAQ page.
• Education full text Provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Indexing coverage begins June 1983; abstracts are included beginning spring 1994; full text of some journals is available beginning Jan. 1996. Indexing and abstracting coverage is identical to that of Education index and Education abstracts.
• LearnTechLib "LearnTechLib is the premiere online resource for aggregated, peer-reviewed research on the latest developments and applications in Learning and Technology by the world's leading publications and authors."
• PsycINFO Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
• Sociological abstracts CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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• ERIC - Education Resources Information Center (ProQuest interface) Indexes education journals (most comprehensively, some selectively), as well as education-related materials from scholarly organizations, professional associations, research centers, policy organizations, university presses, the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies, and state and local agencies. Individual contributors submit conference papers, dissertations, and theses. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education. Covers 1966-present. See ERIC Selection Policy . Combine searches with other ProQuest databases like PsycINFO or LLBA. (PennKey required). more... less... Of the journal content, c. 260 journals offer full-text and c. 50 provide full-text after an embargo period.
• Education Source Ultimate (EBSCO) “Education Source Ultimate is the world's largest and most comprehensive full-text research database designed for education students, researchers, professionals and policymakers. Coverage of education studies spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties ranging from educational assessment and education ethics to educational technology, literacy, research methodology and more." more... less... Education Source Ultimate includes: - 658 active full-text, non-open access journals not available in any version of Academic Search - 2,544 active indexed and abstracted journals. 2,289 of them are peer-reviewed - rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 923 active global OA journals - more than 4,400 full-text education-related conference papers. - a collection of 415 videos from SimpleK12 to provide practical online teacher training that addresses the evolving landscape of education. See Education Source Ultimate Journal Coverage List . Education Source Ultimate includes the content in EBSCO's Professional Development Collection, Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983, and Education Index Full-text (H.W. Wilson). (PennKey required).
• ERIC - Education Resources Information Center (EBSCO interface) Same content and similar functionality to ERIC (ProQuest), on the EBSCOhost platform, shared with Education Source database.
• ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - Public version While the public version of ERIC will only take you to full-text ERIC documents and does not have linking to PennText articles, unique features available here include different limiters for: specific source, author, and identifiers for laws, assessments, and location.
• ERIC ED Microfiche Collection Many ERIC Documents (ED accession numbers) are now accessible online, for those that are not, Penn Libraries holds a complete collection of ERIC fIche. Use this Franklin Catalog record to request fiche.

Additional Education Databases

• Oxford Bibliographies Online - Education Annotated bibliographies on specific topics, identifying useful overview and reference works, classic works, controversial works, and other significant books and articles on the topic. Bibliographic articles are frequently updated.
• LearnTechLib - The Learning and Technology Library Covers more than 25+ years and indexes journals, conference proceedings, reports, presentations on educational technologies and e-learning.
• Educational Administration Abstracts A bibliographic database covering all areas of educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management and educational research.
• NCES Bibliography Identifies journal articles that use data from National Center for Education Statistics research programs, 1973-present. Assembled by NCES from searching online bibliographic databases (e.g., ERIC, JSTOR, EconLit, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses).
• UNESDOC (UNESBIB) / UNESCO UNESDOC, the UNESCO Digital Library, is the repository for UNESCO publications and UNESCO-sponsored publications, and also for UNESCO Director-General speeches and documents of UNESCO's governing bodies, drawn from the UNESCO Library, UNESCO Archives, and documentation centers in UNESCO field offices and institutes.
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Useful for research on academic, school, and public libraries.
• Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Search for children and young adult works by age, grade, genre, awards, language, series, and reading metrics. Includes some reviews.
• Observatory on Borderless Higher Education Tracks news, issues, and provides commissioned reports on higher education issues.

History of Education

• Past Masters Includes the full-text of The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953 (First release) and Correspondence .
• Education Index Retrospective Covers 1929-1983. Choose document type: Book Review.
• Record of current educational publications / US Bureau of Education A classified bibliography, quarterly with annual index. Covers 1921-1932.
• Monthly record of current educational publications / US Bureau of Education. A classified bibliography, monthly with annual index. Covers 1912-1921.
• Bibliography of education. US Bureau of Education. A classified bibliography. Covers 1899-1912.
• L'Année pédagogique. French-language annual bibliography, covering 1911-1913.
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Purdue Libraries provides access to many other databases in Education and other related disciplines. A full list of databases is available at the A-Z Databases home page.

• To see databases of particular interest to Education research, choose "Education" from the subject drop-down menu
• To search by keyword, use the search box in the upper-right corner of the guide

Key Education Databases

This list includes some of the most frequently-used databases in Education research. 

Looking for the full text of articles in these databases?  If an article does not have a direct HTML full-text or PDF link, look for the FIND IT @ Purdue Libraries icon or search for the article from the Purdue Libraries catalog to see if full-text access is provided through another source.

• Education Full Text This full-text source of education scholarship provides coverage for a wide range of topics, including adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, secondary education, teaching methods and much more.
• Educational Administration Abstracts Provides bibliographic records and many full-text articles covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
• Teacher Reference Center (TRC) Free database. Indexes 260+ titles: popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. Provides coverage on topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
• ERIC from US Gov't Use this version ONLY if you are not a Purdue student or faculty member. more... less... https://eric.ed.gov

Major Databases from Education-Related Fields

• PsycINFO This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.
• Dissertations and Theses (Native ProQuest interface) With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
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Core education databases (try these first), multidisciplinary search tools, tools for specific information needs, locating educational theses, creating annotated bibliographies, cited reference searching.

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Explore a selection of the available databases according to function

• Core Education Databases
• Multidisciplinary search tools
• Search tools for specific information needs  (streamed video; comparative ed. data; research methods and research design)
• Tools for locating Educational theses
• Annotated bibliographies
• Cited reference searching databases

Options for finding more databases

• Are you looking for a database which focuses on a specific area of teaching e.g. Humanities Education? Explore the full list of  library guides for education  our learning area guides contain subject focussed database lists.
• Find more titles by searching or browsing the  A-Z ejournals and databases list

The Education Library team has developed a core list of databases for locating journal articles and other sources for educational topics. 

• Education Database (ProQuest) This easy-to-navigate education database covers primary-, secondary-, and higher education. It also covers special- and adult education. It includes more than 1000 top educational publications (800 in full text). About 75% of the publications covered are scholarly journals.
• Education Source (EBSCO) Education Source (replaces Education Research Complete) with improved coverage. Subject areas include early childhood to higher education, multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, education policy, funding and social issues relating to education are covered. includes 2,095 active indexed and abstracted journals. 1,857 of them are peer-reviewed. This includes 56 active full-text journals from the Australia & New Zealand. This product also includes more than 4,100 full-text education-related conference papers and a collection of more than 390 videos from SimpleK12 to provide practical online teacher training that addresses the evolving landscape of education.
• ERIC (EBSCO) ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (US department of education). Included is education research literature from journal articles, conference papers, reports, theses, book chapters and class programs (lesson plans and models).

These databases and platforms are useful if your topic is interdisciplinary (e.g. program evaluation, applied positive psychology, arts education, etc.).

• Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Academic Search Complete is a large multi-disciplinary database with full text for more than 7300 peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Subjects includes adult education, arts education, child & adolescent psychology, child development, cognitive sciences, education policy, educational administration, educational psychology, educational technology, music education and much more.
• ProQuest Central ProQuest Central includes 47 complete databases in the Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Science & Technology, Interdisciplinary and other fields. This resource features a highly-respected, diverse mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.
• CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) CINAHL is an authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. It has broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine. This database provides indexing for thousands of journals with selected titles available in full text. Coverage commences with 1937.
• Google Scholar Google Scholar is a popular way to search for literature across a very broad range of publisher and subject content. You need to set up your Google Scholar preferences to search effectively and to allow unpaid University of Melbourne access.
• Scopus (Elsevier) This is a core global multidisciplinary database that indexes high quality peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and book series. All disciplines are covered (science, medicine, social sciences and arts & humanities). Citation indexes help with locating cited references e.g. for a journal article or book chapter.
• Web of Science An important interdisciplinary resource with 12,000 leading journals in science and social sciences (incl. Education research). Journal articles, conference proceedings and book series are included.

Streamed videos and media

These databases have a specialist focus or provide access to a particular format of information, such as streamed media. 

• Education in Video (Alexander Street Press) Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. The video titles with hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
• EduTV This database provides access to broadcast programs from free-to-air and pay TV channels in Australia. Download is permitted for educational, research and personal use.
• Kanopy (Kanopy) Streamed video Kanopy provides streamed educational video at optimal quality to University of Melbourne staff and students.

Early Childhood observation videos

Comparative education data

• OECD iLibrary The online library of the OECD provides a gateway to its periodicals, books, working papers, policy papers, statistical databases and tables. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) dataset forms a prominent part of this database.

Research resources

Including resources for research design, methods, proposals, project management.

• SAGE Research Methods This database offers research methods support to students learning to conduct research and to faculty while conducting research for publication. It offers more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles and videos to guide researchers. The Methods Map can help you find the best technique for your research.
• SAGE Knowledge SAGE Knowledge offers a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.

Use these databases to locate theses relevant to your topic.

• Australian Education Research Theses The Education Research Theses database contains details of over 15,500 theses accepted at Australian universities and colleges in the field of education from 1919 to date. Nearly 2,500 of these are available online. It also includes some overseas theses on Australian education topics. The database is maintained by the Cunningham Library, Australian Council for Educational Research.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Over two million entries for doctoral and master's theses from around the world. Strong full-text content; multidisciplinary coverage.
• Useful list of further theses indexes from ACER Recommended list

Library catalogue:

• Perform a keyword search (e.g. your topic and annotated bibliography )
• E.g Annotated bibliography and Australian history
• Select an Education database (e.g. ERIC, A+ Education)
• E.g. Annotated bibliography and educational research

Citation tracking allows you to examine research trails and determine the number of times an article has been cited in other papers. It can also reveal connections between authors and other patterns of publication.

• Scopus (Elsevier) Scopus is a multidisciplinary database indexing peer-reviewed research literature, trade publications and book series. Coverage includes science, medicine, the social sciences, arts and humanities. Specialist features include cited reference searching.
• Web of Science Web of Science is another important interdisciplinary resource with 12,000 leading journals in the sciences and social sciences. Included sources are journal articles, conference papers, books and book chapters.
• Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and access peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. Google Scholar offers cited reference searching.
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General & Related Databases

• Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,700 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 13,000 journals. The database features PDF content going back as far back as 1887. more... less... Need help searching this database? Use this tutorial. http://support.epnet.com/training/flash_videos/adv_guided/EN_ehost_AdvSrch_Guided_Tut.ppt
• Dissertations and Theses A&I (ProQuest) An index to theses and dissertations (1861- ) more... less... The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861. Over two million dissertations and theses are available from the UMI vaults on microfilm or in hardcopy, and researchers can preview many recent titles electronically. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format.
• Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
• JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR is an electronic archive of journals, e-books, and primary source material from a range of disciplines. The UNO Library has access to all JSTOR journals (over 2,500 titles) and primary source collections, as well as selected e-books. Note: JSTOR journal archives generally begin with the first volume of the journal but do not include current volumes (from the past three to six years).
• LISTA with Full Text (Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts with Full-text LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. Coverage is 1966-present.
• Social Science Citation Index This database is the electronic version of the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. It includes indexing and abstracting from 8600 journals in all disciplines, covering 1975-present. The sources (footnotes) are included as part of each record, and can also be searched.
• Social Science Research Network Devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research.
• WorldCat This link opens in a new window This combined catalog of library holdings includes books, web resources, and other material. A search for a title will show which participating libraries own it.

Education Indexes and Databases

• ERIC ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
• Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume 1 Alexander Street Counseling provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives in these collections allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. more... less... View a guided demonstration of Counseling and Therapy in Video .
• Educational Administration Abstracts This research database includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. This research database is very selective and indexes professional and peer-reviewed articles and contains more than 66,000 records selected from important sources within the field of Education.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.
• Professional Development Collection This collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals.
• PsycINFO PsycINFO contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.
• SocINDEX with Full Text This product offers informative abstracts for 640 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, it provides data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 1,420 "selective" coverage journals. Extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources is also included. Searchable cited references are also provided.

K-12 Databases

• MAS Complete This is an upgrade from MAS Ultra School Edition. Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 570 popular high school magazines with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Complete has nearly 420 full text reference books, nearly 117,000 biographies, 73,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 1.6 million photos, maps and flags.
• Primary Search Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

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Library Databases

Using Library Databases

Many library databases have full-text articles from periodicals (journals, magazines and newspapers). Some databases also have book chapters, videos, images and more. Databases are specifically designed for research and provide reliable results from known sources. Google searches, on the other hand, provide lots of results and can be difficult to determine which websites are reliable and provide accurate information appropriate for college-level research.

Signing In to Databases

If you are not on campus, you will need to sign in  to access library databases. The information needed to sign in is exactly the same as what you use to access eCampus ( Dallas College email address and eCampus/eConnect password ).

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Education Databases

Reference Databases

Psychology databases, current issue databases, newspaper databases, general databases, streaming databases, other databases & resources.

The link below goes to go to an alphabetical list of all library databases and has a drop-down menu to find databases on specific subjects.

Statistics Databases

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Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences

• Defining the Research Question(s)
• Reference Resources
• Evidence Summaries & Clinical Guidelines
• Health Data & Statistics
• Patient & Consumer Facing Materials
• Images/Streaming Video
• Database Tutorials
• Crafting a Search
• Narrowing / Filtering a Search
• Expanding a Search
• Cited Reference Searching
• Find Grey Literature
• Save Your Searches
• Cite and Manage Sources
• Critical Appraisal
• Different Types of Literature Reviews
• Conducting & Reporting Systematic Reviews
• Finding Systematic Reviews
• Tutorials & Tools for Literature Reviews
• Mobile Apps for Health

Sources of OT Literature

Biomedical and health sciences.

• Medline via PubMed This link opens in a new window PubMed comprises over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
• EMBASE: Excerpta Medica 1974 – present (updated daily) This link opens in a new window EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine. Dates of coverage: 1974 to present (updated daily)

Allied Health and Nursing

• CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window CINAHL indexes over 3,800 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing for selected journals back to 1937. Topics covered are related to nursing, physical therapy, health education, social service/healthcare, occupational therapy, and related disciplines. CINAHL also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials in nursing. Dates of coverage: 1937 to present.

Occupational Therapy

• OTseeker (Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence) This link opens in a new window OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. Most trials have been critically appraised for their validity and interpretability.

Sports and Exercise

• SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window SPORTDiscus covers many related sports medicine subjects, including nutrition, physical therapy, occupational health and therapy, exercise physiology, kinesiology and more. In addition to journals and monographs, the database includes references to tens of thousands of dissertations and theses. International references are included from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.

Psychosocial

• PsycNET (with PsycINFO) This link opens in a new window APA PsycNET is an integrated collection of databases from the American Psychological Association (APA), including the following: PsycINFO, PsycBOOKS, PsycTESTS, PsycTHERAPY, PsycARTICLES, and PsycEXTRA. PsycINFO, the most popular database in PsycNET, is a bibliographic index covering core literature in the psychological and behavioral sciences and their related disciplines. PsycBOOKS includes online versions of the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series, as well as other ebooks and online encyclopedias published by APA. PsycTESTS is a source of structured information about psychological tests and measures as well as a repository for the full text of select instruments. PsycTHERAPY provides access to streaming psychotherapy demonstration videos. Altogether, PsycNET provides information about and access to journal articles, books and ebooks, dissertations, conference presentations, tests and measures, videos, gray literature, and many other other publication types in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. More information less... To search only a specific database (e.g., PsycINFO) within the PsycNET interface, use the "Select Databases" features at the top of the PsycNET landing page and check (or uncheck) the database(s) that apply.
• PsycINFO via Ovid This link opens in a new window PsycINFO via Ovid indexes core academic and professional literature in the psychological and behavioral sciences and their related disciplines. Coverage is from 1806 to the present. **Note that the database PsycINFO is also searchable on APA PsycNET platform.

Multidisciplinary Sources with OT Coverage

• Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window Web of Science Core Collection is a multidisciplinary citation index that includes scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and books in the biomedical, psychosocial, and arts and humanities. The collections contain Science Citation, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index , Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index and Current Chemical Reactions index.
• Scopus This link opens in a new window Scopus is a multidisciplinary index of peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.
• ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window ProQuest Central is a large, multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
• Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Dissertations and Theses Global contains indexes, dissertations and some theses. Full-text is available for many dissertations and theses, including those from NYU.

Education and Social Sciences

• Education Source with ERIC This link opens in a new window Education Source with ERIC provides access to research on all levels of education from early childhood to adult education. The content includes peer reviewed journal articles, ebooks, book reviews, dissertations, conference papers and policy reports on all topics in the realm of education.
• SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window SocINDEX covers the sociology literature, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. It indexes scholarly journals, books, monographs, and conference papers.
• Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window Sociological Abstracts represents the core database for sociological scholarship, covering literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It indexes scholarly journals, dissertations and theses, books, and conference papers and proceedings, and is international in scope.

What is Google Scholar? How should I use it?

Google Scholar is a time-saving, scholarly search interface. With Google Scholar, you can locate scholarly journal articles, books and book sections.  For literature searching, specialized databases have more functionality and access more comprehensive results, but Google Scholar is a good tool to use for a search for a known item .

You can configure Google Scholar to:

• Display a link to NYU options for the full-text of an article
• Export your citations to RefWorks or EndNote

Here's how to display NYU links in Google Scholar:

• Open scholar.google.com
• Go to the left screen, 3 bars, "Settings" 
• Click on menu item, "Library Links"
• Type in: NYU
• From the results, put a check mark next to "New York University Libraries-GetIt at NYU"
• Click on Save to save preferences.

The next time you search scholar.google.com , the GetIt at NYU option will be available next to accessible article citations.

Here's how to change settings for Bibliography manager:

• In the Search Results, go to Bibliography Manager
• Select Show Links  to import citation into: (your choice of bibliography manager, BibTex, Refworks, Endnote, etc.)
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Education Source

Education Source is a leading full-text research database designed for education students, researchers and policymakers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

Education Source is a valuable full-text database covering all levels of education research and specialities such as multilingual education, health education and testing. With access to 1,217 active full-text education journals valued at $378,968.20, it is the second largest database in the Education Source family.

Strengthen Exposure to Open Access Journals

Education Source includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,093 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.  

NOTE: EBSCOhost databases and EBSCO Discovery Service  generate a lot more referrals for DOAJ than any other online platform .

Education Full-Text Journal Databases — International Content Compared

Unique full-text journals.

Education Source includes 891 active full-text journals not available in any version of Academic Search.

Full-Text Conference Papers

In addition to full-text journals, Education Source includes more than 4,800 full-text education-related conference papers.

Video Collection

Education Source includes a collection of 415 videos from SimpleK12 to provide practical online teacher training that addresses the evolving landscape of education.

Topics covered include remote learning primers, virtual classroom tutorials, best practices in online pedagogy, e-learning software reviews, how to foster peer relationships in online environments, activities and examinations for remote students and more.

Searchable Cited References

Education Source includes 1,178 journals with searchable cited references.

The Highest Quality Subject Indexing 

EBSCO has the premier and most highly regarded scholarly vocabularies curated by subject matter experts, covering all disciplines and major publishers. 

EBSCO believes in breaking down barriers to information through Enhanced Subject Precision (ESP) mapping, bridging the gap between content and end users through inclusion of natural languages.   

EBSCO databases support all learning types through textual and visual subject browse and information literacy training through subject access points in more than 30 languages.  Watch video to learn more .

Education Source includes 2,629 active indexed and abstracted journals. 2,400 of them are peer-reviewed. 

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