LibGuides: EDD-810 Understanding and Conducting Research: Articles & Databases

Essential Databases - Search for Articles

Main Education Databases

Career & Technical Education This link opens in a new window
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Is a source of vocational information. Keeping current with journals in a field is easily accomplished with e-mail alerting or RSS feeds.
Subject Coverage:
technology, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, photography, and nursing
Dates of Coverage:
1991 to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
not available
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Contains 6,550 full-text journals (with 5,890 of them peer-reviewed). Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Subject Coverage:
animal science, anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, science, technology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology
Dates of Coverage:
PDF content dating back as far as 1887
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
over 13,780 indexed and abstracted journals
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. It cites every article of at least one column in length in more than 770 English-language periodicals.
Subject Coverage:
numerous aspects of education
Dates of Coverage:
June 1983 to present (indexing)
1994 to present (abstracts)
1996 to present (selected full text)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 602,000 records
ERIC This link opens in a new window
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Indexes and abstracts thousands of education-related materials. It includes journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, and standards and guidelines.
Subject Coverage:
covers all aspects of education
Dates of Coverage:
1966 to present
1993 to present (for records with full-text)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 1,000,000 records
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
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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The library's subscriptions to scholarly journals published by SAGE can be searched in this interface. The collection is particularly strong for Education.
Subject Coverage:
multi-disciplinary
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
unknown

Recommended Databases

Alt-Press Watch This link opens in a new window
Provides an alternative to corporate-controlled media at the national and local levels. Subject specific publications and grass roots media are included.
Subject Coverage:
contemporary social issues, ecology, labor, public policy
Dates of Coverage:
1970 to present
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
more than 670,000 records
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
Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Is an indispensable source of news, commentary, and data for academe. The library's site license includes complete access to the archive back to 1989 and a number of extras: almanac issues back to 1995; special reports; supplemental information for print articles; slide shows and video; and alerting.
Subject Coverage:
various aspects of higher education
Dates of Coverage:
1989 to present
1995 to present (almanac issues)
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
unknown
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Is a comprehensive list of scholarly journals which make the full text of their articles freely available on the web.
Subject Coverage:
a large variety of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
"regularly"
Size:
more than 1,800,000 articles
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
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.

Films on Demand - Education
Is a collection of streaming video.
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http://www.moreheadstate.edu/library/db/fod
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 6000 titles

Notes:
Closed captioning is available for many of the titles using Windows Media Player and Flash Player.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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A search engine for scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Subject Coverage:
academically-oriented digital resources
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
unknown
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Is an online archive of scholarly journals which contains high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Journals span continents and languages, with titles from 1,200 publishers from 57 countries. Contains also scholarly e-books, primary sources, and an image collection.
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
varies by title (1665 is the earliest year covered)
Update Frequency:
varies by title
Size:
more than 2,800 journals
Notes:
There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
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
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
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Produced by the National Library of Medicine and covers journal literature published internationally in all areas of medicine.
Subject Coverage:
experimental medicine, clinical medicine, nursing, psychiatry, health services administration, dentistry, nutrition, toxicology, education, pathology, veterinary medicine
Dates of Coverage:
1965 to present
1975 to present (for records with abstracts)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 12,000,000 records
more than 4,800 biomedical journals
Note:
Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities.
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
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Is an online archive of scholarly journals. Articles are searchable in a number of ways and may be viewed as web pages and in some cases as PDF files.
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
unavailable
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
more than 227 journals
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
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Offers the full text to the complete runs of more than 70 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA). For comprehensive searching of psychology journals (beyond just the APA titles) use PsycINFO.
Subject Coverage:
psychology
Dates of Coverage:
1894 to present
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
more than 150,000 records
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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Has nearly 470 online full-text titles. Comprehensive searches are better done in PsycINFO which includes linking to these titles.
Subject Coverage:
anthropology, behavior, emotions, experimental methods, mental processes, observational methods, psychiatry, psychology
Dates of Coverage:
not available
Update Frequency:
not available
Size:
not available
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
Reference Universe This link opens in a new window
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Is a scholarly alternative to Wikipedia. Thousands of reference books owned by Camden-Carroll Library in either print or e-book format can be searched via their back-of-the-book indexes.
Subject Coverage:
numerous subjects are covered
Dates of Coverage:
not available
Update Frequency:
biweekly
Size:
more than 5,800 subject encyclopedias indexed
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
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Is an online collection of mostly scientific scholarly journals and reference books.
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas within the sciences but is particularly strong in: life sciences, engineering, earth sciences, pharmacology, and textiles
Dates of Coverage:
unavailable
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
more than 2,900 journals (for citations)
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Covers research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Indexes over 1,500 serials publications.
Subject Coverage:
community and mental health services, crisis intervention, family and social welfare, gerontology, poverty and homelessness, professional issues in social work, social and health policy, social services in addiction, social work education, social work practice, support groups/networks, violence/abuse/neglect, and welfare services
Dates of Coverage:
1980 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly (approximately 400 new records added per update)
Size:
more than 89,260 records
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Indexes and abstracts articles in 1,500 journals in sociology, social work, and other social and behavioral sciences.
Subject Coverage:
abuse and neglect, aging, anthropology, criminology, crisis intervention, demography, development policy, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, sociology, urban development, urban studies, and violence
Dates of Coverage:
1963 to present
1974 to present (for records with abstracts)
Update Frequency:
monthly (approximately 2,500 new records added per update)
Size:
more than 660,000 records
Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window
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Includes nearly 560 online full-text titles (most of which are peer-reviewed). For comprehensive searching of sociology journals (including these) use Sociological Abstracts.
Subject Coverage:
community development, culture, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, social behavior, and social structure
Dates of Coverage:
not available
Update Frequency:
not available
Size:
not available
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Is an online collection of mostly scientific scholarly journals and e-books.
Subject Coverage:
business, chemistry, computer science, earth science, education, engineering, finance, law, life sciences, management, mathematics, medical sciences, physics, psychology, and statistics
Dates of Coverage:
coverage varies
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
unavailable
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Is a worldwide online union catalog that offers bibliographic and holdings information for thousands of libraries. Each item in the database not held in the library at MSU can be easily obtained by using the 'Request it' button.
Subject Coverage:
covers countless subjects
Dates of Coverage:
1000 C.E. to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 548 million item records
more than 3.3 billion holdings records
Note:
It includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century as well as books cataloged yesterday. It would be a challenge to name a book that would not have a record in this database. Numerous journal articles are also available through WorldCat.

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Peer Review

What is Peer Review?

It is the quality control system for scholarship. It means that articles in a peer-reviewed journal must be scrutinized and approved by experts before they are published. The editor of the journal should ensure that more than one expert reads each submission. Also, the editor should remove the name and any information that could identify the author so that the reviewers are scrutinizing only the work and not the person. This is called "blind" review. Submissions are rejected, accepted, or accepted pending revisions based upon the recommendation of the reviewers. SYNONYMS FOR PEER REVIEW = 'academic', 'juried', 'refereed', 'scholarly'.

How can you tell when something is peer-reviewed?

1) When you are looking at a print copy, of an entire issue of a journal, the editorial board of scholars with academic credentials and institutional affiliations will be listed somewhere. These are the 'peers' that review each published article.

2) Use a check box limit in your database search (when available).

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