Education Research Guide: Databases

Education in Video provides resources for both new and experienced teachers tools to increase their knowledge and skills and for education faculty to link abstract theories of education to real-world students and classrooms.

Resource for children's books and media, including reviews of thousands of children's books ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. Also includes awards and reading lists for items reviewed.

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

Video demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms as well as ready-to-use teaching such as course, study, and discussion guides; assessment checklists; and themed playlists

Education Resources Information Center is the world’s largest digital library of educational literature, including journal articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other education-related materials.

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using ERIC (EBSCO)

Comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments, including information for evaluation of test products

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using Mental Measurements Yearbook

Peer-reviewed articles that serve as an authoritative guide to the current scholarship for a variety of academic topics

Full-text of APA journals, book chapters, and reference works; abstracts of peer-reviewed literature; psychotherapy videos; psychological tests, scales, and other measurement tools; conference papers, patient materials, brochures, and other gray literature related to behavioral and social science through a single search of multiple American Psychological Association databases

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using APA PsycNet

Transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and first-person narratives of mental illness and treatment as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material

Video footage from actual therapy sessions, training videos, and reenactments conducted by renowned counseling professionals

Peer-reviewed articles that serve as an authoritative guide to the current scholarship for a variety of academic topics

Full-text DSM-5® as well as journals, textbooks, and the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines

Full-text journals covering topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using this EBSCO database

Abstracts, indexing, and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more related to social sciences and with an international scope, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using Social Science Premium Collection

Academic journal information, evaluation metrics, and submission details, including manuscript and submission guidelines

Reference collection of primary and secondary sources as well as journal articles, including peer-reviewed essays, covering daily life from 10,000 BC to the present

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using Daily Life Through History

Peer-reviewed international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of educational technology and e-Learning

Full-text journals in the broad discipline of management, including accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, health care management, and library/information science

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using Emerald Insight

Full-text, academic e-books, including reference materials, covering a wide range of topics

Full-text electronic access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using JSTOR

Index and abstract of journals, books, and research reports related to library and information science

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using this EBSCO database

Full-text back files of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using Periodicals Archive Online

Abstracts of scholarly and trade publications in fields such as physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, and more

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using Sports Medicine & Education Index

Index of worldwide conference proceedings

Full-text articles, dissertations, and other relevant sources in the field of education

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using Education Database (ProQuest)

Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly, professional, and reference e-books published by APA (Updated monthly)

Influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day, including many major theorists

Full-text journals with coverage back to 1930 plus abstracts for additional journals, sports-related video, and articles coverings sports and sports medicine research, including nutrition, physical therapy, occupational health, exercise physiology and kinesiology

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using SPORT Discus Database

Indexing and abstracts for peer-reviewed education journals

For more information, here is a brief tutorial on using this EBSCO database