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Education Research: Databases
Education Full Text
Covers education topics such as critical thinking, teaching methods, curriculum, comparative education, literacy standards, multicultural education, psychology, special education, counseling, teacher/parent relations, vocational education, etc.
ERIC (via Proquest)
Premier U.S. database of education literature. Sponsored by the US Department of Education. Includes journal (EJ) and ERIC Document (ED) citations with abstracts; full text of ERIC Documents from 1993 to present.
Sage Premier
Includes the full text of peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies.
Multidisciplinary Databases
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Covers a wide range of academic subjects.
JSTOR
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences.
ProQuest
Provides access to a collection of databases. The ability to search across multiple databases is particularly useful for researching multi-disciplinary topics.
Scopus
Multidisciplinary database with citations and abstracts from peer-reviewed journal literature, trade journals, books, conference publications, and other documents. It provides tools tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
Related Subject Databases
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Indexes literature on the nature & use of language. Covers linguistics (nature & structure of human speech); language (speech sounds, sentence & word structure, meaning, spelling, phonetics); and speech, language, & hearing pathology.
PsycINFO
A comprehensive index of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Indexes more than 2,150 journals (98% are peer-reviewed) as well as relevant books and dissertations.
Sports Medicine & Education Index
Includes materials from peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, trade magazines, and other sources. Covers sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, health education, physical therapy, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.
Advanced Research Databases
Dissertations and Theses Arizona State University
A searchable database for full text, citations, and abstracts of ASU dissertations.
Dissertations and Theses
Indexes and abstracts doctoral dissertations and selected masters' theses accepted for degrees by accredited North American educational institutions and over 200 other institutions.
Ulrich's Periodical Directory
Provides title-specific information for currently published journals, magazines and newspapers. Indicates whether a journal is peer reviewed (refereed).
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities: Education
Provides information on many education journals, their circulation figures, subject areas, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, reviewing process, and acceptance rates when available.
Library Search Engines
Find most ASU Libraries' books, articles from newspapers, journals, magazines and more – with just one search!
Find most ASU Libraries' books, articles from newspapers, journals, magazines and more – with just one search!
Google Scholar (via ASU)
Google Scholar indexes items Google considers scholarly, including articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, conference proceedings, and technical reports. The ASU Library subscribes to the electronic version of many of these materials and may own the print copy.
Tutorials
ERIC Tutorial
If you have never searched the ERIC database or want to review how to search, view this tutorial which walks you through the basics of searching and limiting search results in the ERIC database.