A Research Guide for Education
A starting spot for identifying resources to support research in education.
About this guide
This guide was created by expert librarians from Steely Library and education faculty, to kickstart your research, guiding you to recommended databases and other resources in education.
Databases
The selected databases are Steely Library and education faculty approved and are your best bests for researching most topics in education.
- ERIC This link opens in a new windowDatabase sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature, including pedagogy, counseling, and psychology. Covers 1966-present.
- Education Research Complete This link opens in a new windowEducation Research Complete is a robust database for education students, professionals, and policymakers. Providing hundreds of full-text education journals, it covers all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education, plus multilingual education, health education, and testing.
- Education Source This link opens in a new windowCoverage spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals.
- Educational Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new windowEducational Administration Abstracts is a database providing hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records covering all areas of educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management and educational research.
- Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new windowIndex of trade journals, periodicals, and books in K-12 education. Covers topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science & mathematics, and more.
Looking for more relevant databases? Check out our A-Z list for additional education databases.
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