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MFT 8302 : Principles of Educational Research: General Databases

Introduction

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

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

On this page are two of our big databases. They index a large amount of resources that cover most academic subjects, a something for everybody approach. They are often useful to use because of this fact. So both of these databases index many psychology journals.

Recommended Databases

Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete contains many different resources on many academic subjects, a kind of a something for everybody database. Since it covers many different topics, it indexes a lot of resources.

Info On Academic Search Complete

Total Number of publications indexed  20,260

Number of full text titles  9,657  (47.7%)

Number of Journals  17,128  (84.5%)

Number of Magazines   1,788  (8.8%)

Number of Trade Publications   260  (1.3%)  

Number of Other Publications  1,084  (5.4%) (books, newspapers, reports, speeches)

 

Gale Academic OneFile

Gale Academic OneFile

Contains articles from thousands of journals and magazines. Also includes podcasts, transcripts from NPR and CNN, videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.

More Info on Gale Academic OneFile

Total Number of publications indexed  20,272

Total Number of Full-text titles  10,376  (51.2%)

Number of Academic Journals  13,404 (66.1%)

Number of Professional Journals  1,988 (9.8%)

Number of Magazines   888  (4.4%)

Number of Trade Publications   1,649 (8.1%)  

Number of Other Publications  2,316   (11.4%) (videos, newspapers, reports, almanacs, pamplets)