LibGuides: ENG 499C: Education Resources

Find Journal Articles for Education

Databases for finding journal articles (Education)

Other Useful Databases for Education

DART - Europe E-Theses Portal This link opens in a new window
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
Subject Coverage:
European dissertations and theses
Dates of Coverage:
1597 to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 106,000 research theses
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Indexes doctoral dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions since 1861. It selectively covers Master's Theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations going back to 1637. Nearly half of the records link to the full-text document.
Subject Coverage:
covers the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions
Dates of Coverage:
1637 to present (for selected British and European dissertations)
1861 to present (for indexing of U.S. dissertations)
July 1980 to present (for dissertations with abstracts)
January 1988 to present (for Master's Theses with abstracts)
1997 to present (for the full-text of most dissertations)
2013 to present (for indexing and full-text of theses produced at Morehead State University)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 3,800,000 records
more than 1.700.000 full-text documents
Learning Express Library This link opens in a new window
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Provides practice tests and test preparation guides for many of the most common standardized tests. It also offers courses, e-books, and practice tests for improving basic skills along with job search and career development.
Subject Coverage:
business writing, citizenship, cover letters, interviewing, job search, resumes, skills improvement, and test preparation
Dates of Coverage:
most recent materials available
Update Frequency:
regularly
Size:
more than 1,000 tests and tutorials
more than 200 e-books
Mental Measurements Yearbook This link opens in a new window
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Contains information about English-language standardized tests. Each record contains the full text of one or more reviews of the test which the record describes. The tests themselves are not accessible through the database. Access limited to 4 users at a time.
Subject Coverage:
educational skills, leadership skills, business skills, vocational aptitude, personality, and psychology
Dates of Coverage:
1938 to present
Update Frequency:
whenever a new edition of the yearbook is released (not every year in spite of the name)
Size:
more than 7,000 reviews
more than 2,700 reviews of contemporary testing instruments

Restrictions:
Limited to 4 users at a time
Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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Cites biographical material appearing in periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
Subject Coverage:
biographical information
Dates of Coverage:
July 1984 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 500,000 people
more than 36,000 images
Book Review Digest This link opens in a new window
Cites and excerpts reviews appearing in periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. which cover English-language fiction and non-fiction. Children's books are included, but excluded are: textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences.
Subject Coverage:
thousands of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
January 1983 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 600,000 records
Cabells This link opens in a new window
Cabells has set itself the task of policing predatory publishing. Faculty and students seeking to publish their work in scholarly journals can use Cabells to assess the stature and integrity of the journals they are considering. The Predatory Reports list allows a researcher to see which journals are violating best practices and specifically what they are doing wrong..
Subject Coverage:
accounting, economics and finance, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, education psychology and administration, educational technology and library science, psychology and psychiatry, computer science and business information systems, health administration, nursing, mathematics, astronomy, biological science, chemistry, geology, oceanography, physics

Dates of Coverage:
recent editions
Update Frequency:
at least annually
Size:
more than 11,000 journals in the Journalytics database
more than 15,000 journals in the Predatory Reports database
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Is a large multi-disciplinary collection of streaming video.
Subject Coverage:
numerous subjects and disciplines are covered.
Dates of Coverage:
unknown

Update Frequency:
new titles are added individually (about 600 annually)

Size:
more than 24,000 titles

Notes:
Closed captioning is available using Windows Media Player and Flash Player.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Offers numerous databases for law, news, and business.
Subject Coverage:
law, news, and business
Dates of Coverage:
coverage varies
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
not available
NoveList This link opens in a new window
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Is a readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
Subject Coverage:
covers a variety of subjects that appear in fiction
Dates of Coverage:
1800 to present
Update Frequency:
quarterly
Size:
more than 56,000 records
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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Indexes journal articles, technical reports, monographic series, dissertations, and other materials relating to psychology. Articles are selected from more than 1,500 journals published in 35 languages.
Subject Coverage:
psychology & related fields
Dates of Coverage:
1600s to present
Update Frequency:
weekly
Size:
more than 5 million records
Notes:
Ninety-nine percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.
Has one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry
Offers options for searching on Cited References
Training Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/APAPublishingTraining/videos
SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
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Offers comprehensive information on research methodology primarily in the social sciences (but in other disciplines as well) taken from hundreds of publications by SAGE.
Subject Coverage:
research methodology
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
annually (in December)
Size:
more than 100,000 pages of content
WestlawNext This link opens in a new window
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Offers comprehensive full text of statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal resources, along with current news articles and business information.
Subject Coverage:
law, news, business
Dates of Coverage:
coverage varies
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
not available

Note: Training site at http://westelearning.com/

E-Journals

E-Journals for Education

[A to Z list for all online journals]

Other E-Book Resources

BookServer - Locate books in electronic format from the Internet Archive

Google Book Search - Searches the full-text of books from various publishers and libraries

Project Gutenberg - Library of free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the USA

OAIster - Digital resources, providing access to a large number of eprints archives and electronic resources

More E-book Sites

Selected E-Book Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Education - 2003 Offers a comprehensive view of the institutions, people, processes, roles, and philosophies in educational practice in the United States and throughout the world
ISBN: 9780028655949 eISBN: 9780028658827
Encyclopedia of Education Law - 2008 Places education law in its proper context in the U.S. legal system.
ISBN: 9781412940795 eISBN: 9781412963916
Encyclopedia of Special Education - 2007 Addresses theory and practice for those working in the special education field.
ISBN: 9780470174197 eISBN: 9780470373699

Browse Books in the Library

The Library's books are arranged by Dewey Decimal numbers. The Dewey Decimal numbers for Education are:

370      Education
371      Schools & their activities; special education
372      Elementary education
373      Secondary education
374      Adult education
375      Curricula
376      Women and education
377      Religion and education
378      Higher education
379      Public policy issues in education

Education Associations

Education Associations

Government Agencies

Government Agencies

Kentucky Department of Education
Kentucky Council on Post-Secondary Education - Research Links
U.S. Department of Education
Institute of Education Sciences
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center