Information Resources for Education

Best Resources for Finding Articles

• ERIC
  • An index to journals, books, curriculum guides, and other resources relating to education from pre-school to graduate school. 1966- present.
• Education Abstracts (EBSCOHost)
  • An index to 400 journals. Subjects indexed include a wide variety of topics related to teaching. 1983- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Educational Administration Abstracts
  • Indexes articles related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other key areas.

Additional Resources for Finding Articles & Other Information

• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• PsycINFO (EBSCOHost)
  • The online version of Psychological Abstracts, indexing journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations. 1887- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOHost)
  • Comprehensive guide to 2,000+ contemporary testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. Buros Institute, University of Nebraska. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
  • Search or browse transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives that shed light on the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works that contextualize the primary material.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.
• Kraus Curriculum Development Library
  • Searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. Index, 1983- present; Full text, 2001- present.
• Social Services Abstracts
  • Index and abstracts on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare and community development. 1980 - present.
• ERIC via Cambridge Scientific
  • Provides an alternative search engine for searching the ERIC database. It does contain the ERIC Thesaurus.
• ERIC
  • Open-access version of ERIC, from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept. of Education, provides more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004).