LibGuides: EDU 6305: Psychosocial Dimensions in Education: Databases

Why Search One Database at a time?

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Why Search One Database at a Time When You Can Search Everything at Once?

You may miss some important articles if you search everything at once
You will have less articles to sift through
Individual Databases have extra features not available in Search Everything

Comparison of Databases

Education Source

Full text for more than 2,000 journals
Indexing and abstracts for nearly 3,600 journals
Full text for more than 530 books and monographs
Full text for more than 2,300 education-related conference papers
Citations for nearly 4 million articles, including book reviews
Coverage dating back to 1880

ERIC

More than 1.6 million records
Links to more than 631,000 full-text documents
Coverage dating back to 1966
An education-specific thesaurus containing over 11,700 terms

Professional Development Collection

470 full-text journals
Nearly 300 peer-reviewed, full-text journals
More than 750 abstracted and indexed journals
More than 530 peer-reviewed, abstracted and indexed journals
Nearly 230 educational reports

Educational Administration Abstracts

More than 150,000 records
Records dating back to 1965
Covers over 300 journals, magazines & books

Education Databases

Educational Administration Abstracts
Access to journal and magazine article citations on educational administration topics.
Education Source
Access to millions of journal articles from thousands of journals and 550 books, and conference papers on subjects pertaining to education.
ERIC
A unique database of educational materials from two sources:
(1) Current Index of Journals in Education and (2) Resources in Education (RIE) Index. The RIE contains materials not available anywhere else.
ERIC (IES version)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.
Professional Development Collection
A valuable resource aimed primarily at professional educators and others interested in the field of education. Information on everything from child development to theories and practices of different teaching methods.

Legal Databases

Legal Collection
This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source of information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends in the legal world.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni features the following: 1. Thousands of news sources from all over the world. 2. Legal court cases and law reviews 3. Company dossiers and information. Replaces LexisNexis Academic.

Searching Tip

When doing research in databases, you often need to perform several searches trying different combinations of terms before coming up with a list of good results.

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Other Databases

Academic Search Complete
This database covers many subjects found at colleges and universities. Contains articles from thousands of journals, magazines, news sources, and videos from the Associated Press.
APA PsycARTICLES
Articles from 45 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations.
JSTOR
JSTOR offers journals, ebooks, and primary source collections, allowing researchers to retrieve high-resolution scanned images as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The resources archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
More than 470 full-text journals cover topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and much more.