Education - Databases

Henry Buhl Library

Research Guide: Education -- Databases

Research guides: Education Home Research Guides Home

If the library does not have access to the journal you need, click HERE for information on document delivery!

If you are a secondary education major, be sure to use the Research Guide for your major in addition to the Education Guide!

Databases focused on education:

ERIC -- the premier national bibliographic database of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials education literature beginning in 1966 to present

Education Research Complete -- a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing

Social Science Citation Index -- provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines

Teacher Reference Center -- provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Databases with a cross-disciplinary focus:

Academic Search Premier -- scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study

Country Watch -- Provides country-specific data including demographic, political, economic, business, and cultural information.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online -- includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year

JSTOR -- full text access to scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines

LexisNexis Academic -- provides full text and citation access to information in the reference, business, medical, and legal disciplines

Newspaper Source -- provides full-text access to many local newspapers across the U.S., including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Boston Globe

Oxford Reference Online Database -- full text of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press

Project Muse -- access to scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences

Databases with a discipline-specific focus related to education

Mental Measurements Yearbook -- Mental Measurements Yearbook contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests

Tests in Print -- "A comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Is directly linked to the critical, candid test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series."

PsycNET -- Search both PsycARTICLES & PsycINFO for Psychology articles, dating back to 1872

SocINDEX -- Full text of journal articles, and indexing and informative abstracts for "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895.