LibGuides: Education Databases: Education Databases

Education Databases for Articles, Statistics, and more

ERIC [Educational Resources Information Center] (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
ERIC is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC contains citations for articles from education literature and journals from 1966 to the present, and links are provided to the full text of the articles when available. By using this EBSCO version, rather than the public ERIC site, you can easily link to the full text of additional articles if the library has access to them.
ERIC [Educational Resources Information Center] (ERIC site) This link opens in a new window
ERIC is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from 1966 to the present.
Education Week This link opens in a new window
Features daily news, commentary and analysis on policy, legislative and overall shifts and trends is the U.S. K-12 space.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and abstracts for over 330 journals designed for professional educators. Selected full-text to 250 journals.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 This link opens in a new window
The Education Index Retrospective indexes education periodicals from 1929 through 1983.
LearningExpress Library This link opens in a new window
This is a test prep database containing tutorials, study aids and practice tests.

For a more complete list of databases, see Databases A-Z (also available from the library home page).

For more information on Education Research, please see the Education Research LibGuide

In addition to the Education specific databases, the following may also be of help:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This large multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,770 journals, including full text for over 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
This database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.

MLA International Bibliography
A product of the Modern Language Association, this database includes citations for articles on teaching language and literature.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to full-text academic electronic journals in various disciplines including economics and finance, political science, history, literature, anthropology, mathematics, sociology, statistics, and education.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus combines a comprehensive, curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window

Taylor and Francis eBooks
This eBook database contains accessible titles in the sociology, history, politics, and business & management collections
Google Scholar
Although not a library database, Google Scholar can be a useful search tool to find academic sources such as articles and books.

In addition to the Education specific databases, the following should be of help for Human Movement and Health Science Education topics:

Sports Medicine & Education Index This link opens in a new window
Sports Medicine & Education Index is a citation database comprising records from peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources that focus on exercise physiology and physical education.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This database is a source of literature for sports and sports medicine studies
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This large multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,770 journals, including full text for over 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.
Biomedical Reference Collection Basic This link opens in a new window
Designed for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides full text from almost 520 scholarly journals covering a variety of medical topics.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
Full text and bibliographic information about science, technology, and medicine with over 950 full text peer-reviewed journals
ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
ClinicalKey is a database designed for medical professionals. It provides full-text articles from Elsevier’s collection, as well as access to images, videos, and books.

Annual Reviews
Reviews of the scientific literature
Medline Plus
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends.

Cochrane Library (Wiley) This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library (ISSN 1465-1858) is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.

In addition to the Education specific databases, the following should be of help for School Counseling and Mental Health Counseling topics:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This large multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,770 journals, including full text for over 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is an essential full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
This database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
Social Sciences with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text resource provides access to the most important English-language social science journals.
PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
Produced by the APA, PsycTESTS is a repository for a growing selection of psychological tests and measures, with thousands of test instruments and items available for immediate download and use in research and teaching.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
DSM-5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders This link opens in a new window
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a tool for clinicians, an essential educational resource for students and practitioners, and a reference for researchers in the field.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
Covers scientific, technical, and medical topics in peer-reviewed journals, books, and open access resources

Annual Reviews
Reviews of the scientific literature

For more information, please see the Research for School Counselors LibGuide or the Mental Health Counseling LibGuide

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline is a fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,300 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni provides access to the full text of hundreds of major business and legal journals, magazines, and U.S. and international newspapers. Company financial, country, tax, medical, federal and state legal information, and accounting information can also be accessed.

Google Scholar
Although not a database, Google Scholar can be used to find case law by selecting Case law (instead of the default of searching for Articles).

National Center for Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The primary source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.
Indiana Department of Education Data Center
Includes performance data and other information reported by schools in Indiana.

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher includes reports that offers in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
A variety of reference materials, commentaries and viewpoints, periodical and news articles, primary sources, statistics and multimedia to help present different sides of controversial topics. Highly recommended for argumentative/persuasive research topics.

TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window
Includes information and multimedia resources relating to juvenile and young adult fiction and nonfiction books.
Children's Literature Review (Literature Criticism Online) This link opens in a new window
Literature Criticism Online contains the complete full text of Contemporary Literary Criticism and Drama Criticism as well as the full text of Children's Literature Review.
Literary Sources This link opens in a new window
Literary Sources provides information in primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
This encyclopedia includes entries written by experts in the field of children's literature.

For more information, please see the Children's and Young Adult Literature LibGuide

INSPIRE Databases This link opens in a new window
Available to any resident of Indiana as a state-sponsored resource.

Teachers College Record Book Reviews This link opens in a new window
Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields.
Choice Reviews This link opens in a new window
CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education.
Ulrichsweb This link opens in a new window
Ulrich's can be searched to find information on a journal, including whether or not it is considered to be scholarly.

In addition to the general databases, you may also want to search the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a top source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

SAGE Video This link opens in a new window
SAGE Video showcases relevant educational video across key social, behavioral, and health science disciplines. Each collection includes a breadth of video types to support diverse learning and research needs.
AVON - Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
AVON: Academic Video Online is a comprehensive multidisciplinary streaming video resource.
Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window
A collection of feature films licensed for educational use.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Films on Demand is a state-of-the-art streaming video platform for a variety of educational media content.
Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than 19,000 streaming documentaries and foreign/indie feature films, available on a patron-driven acquisition model (all titles are available to you, Butler University Libraries pays for licenses that hit usage triggers)

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