EDUCATION

Article Indexes/Databases

Education Databases:

ERIC (E ducational R esources I nformation C enter)

ERIC (EBSCO)        1966 -     

ERIC  (OhioLINK)    1966 -

Largest database for educational research and practice. It contains journal articles, ERIC documents (ED's), books and conference papers.             

Education Full-Text   1983 -   
Indexes 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks in education.  

Education Research Complete
Indexes 1,500 journals, of which 750 are available in full-text. One-hundred (100) books/monographs
and numerous education-related conference papers are also available full-text.

PsycINFO    1967 -
Indexes over 1800 periodicals and contains book coverage in the behavioral sciences and mental health fields.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection 
Indexes 550 full text journals covering emotional and behavioral characteristics.

Dissertations and Theses   1861 -
"Proquest Dissertations and Theses” includes full-text to over 800,000 dissertations from 1997 forward. The database includes also full-text to all UC dissertations published in electronic format. In addition, the database includes citations to dissertations from 1861-Present and Abstracts from 1980 forward. 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Many of these resources can be borrowered via Interlibrary Loan.

Scopus 2004 -

Provides indexing, abstracting and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature.  Scopus includes over 15,000 peer reviewed titles from 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 28 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years, building up to 10 years by the end of 2005.  Coverage also includes over 200 million quality websites, over 12 million patents and 125 book series.

Social Sciences Citation Index

A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author and abstract fields, covering the social sciences journal literature (1700 journals).

General Databases:

Academic Search Premier  1984 -     
Indexes over 3,000 scholarly publications including education resources.                               

Expanded Academic ASAP    
Indexes over 500 full-text journals.                  

Tests and Measurements Databases:

HaPI - Health and Psychosocial Instruments   1985 -  
Provides access to information on measurement instruments which include questionnaires, tests, checklists, coding schemes, manuals and more.                   

Mental Measurements Yearbooks (Yearbooks 9 - 15)   
Contains information and reviews about standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.                             

LearningExpress Library (Tutorial)

LearningExpress Library offers students and adults unlimited, 24/7 access to targeted skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as hundreds of online interactive practice tests that prepare them for several types of exams including grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, and civil service positions. Complete answer explanations accompany each response so that patrons understand why a particular answer is correct or incorrect. To take a test at LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. Each time you return to this site, log into LearningExpress with the username and password you created.

Theses and Dissertations Databases:       

Proquest Dissertations and Theses   1861 -
Contains over 1.6 million national and European dissertations and theses. Digital ohio resources are available at no charge and other publications can be ordered via Interlibrary loan (no charge) or purchased online.

Index to Theses   1716 - 
Listing of theses from universities in Great Britain and Ireland.

PhdData: The Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress    
This pioneering database contains unpublished doctoral dissertations from around the globe. It helps to avoid duplication and creates a meeting place for researchers.

International Education Theses
Australian Education Digital Theses
 
New Zealand Educational Theses database
 
IDP Database of Research on International Education
 
Pakistan Research Repository Education Theses

 

 

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Last updated:   4/30/2009