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Try searching a journal database. Here are links and descriptions for the most useful multi-disciplinary databases containing material relevant to research in Education

Quick Search Guide for Education Databases

EBSCO Megafile Ultimate
Offers a variety of full text journal databases and indexes including: Academic Search Ultimate, Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate, Art & Architecture Source, Business Source Ultimate, Education Research Complete, Film & Television Literature Index Full Text, Health Business Elite, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Humanities International Complete, MAS Ultra: School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, Newspaper Source Plus, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Religion and Philosophy Collection, Sociology Source Ultimate Unlimited users
ProQuest databases
Over 15 journal databases of abstracted and full-text articles including: ABI/INFORM, Academic Research Library, Nursing and Allied Health Source, Proquest Education Journals and Proquest Social Science Journals.
Informit database collection
Provides access to over 90 Australian databases across a wide range of subjects.
Emerald plus
Journals that focus on the subject areas of management, information science, education, sociology and engineering.
ScienceDirect journals
Access full-text journal articles from the life, medical, technical, social and physical sciences. Includes more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Scopus
More than 20,000 peer-reviewed journals, including 2,800 gold open access journals. Over 365 trade publications, Articles-in-press (i.e., articles that have been accepted for publication) from more than 3,750 journals and publishers. 6.5 million conference papers from over 17,000 worldwide events. Plus Patents.

Top Databases

Databases may contain full-text journals (many peer-reviewed), reference works and primary sources

A+ Education (1978+)
Informit database containing some full-text. Covers education and related fields: curriculum, educational research, management, policy administration, teaching, training etc...
Education journals (Proquest) (1988+)
Proquest database containing a collection of journals, conference papers and dissertations on education related topics. Covers adult, primary, secondary, tertiary, and special needs education.
Education research complete
EBSCO database of journal articles focusing on education related topics. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education.
ERIC (Proquest)
Proquest database indexing US educational resources including conferences, meetings, government documents, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Some full-text
PsycINFO
Behavioral sciences and mental health. Includes related disciplines such as medicine, law, social work, neuroscience, business, nursing, forensics and engineering.
SPORTDiscus with full text
EBSCO database containing articles on sports, health, fitness and well-being. Some full-text
Teacher reference center
EBSCO database indexing teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Other Databases

Other useful databases

Full list of journal databases

Cambridge journals online
Cambridge Journals Online provides access to peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.
Unlimited users
JSTOR
Archival access to scholarly journals published in the Arts and Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences, music, business, mathematics and statistics.
SAGE journals online
Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine
SpringerLink journals
Springer/Verlag and Birkhauser publications in a variety of subject areas including: biology/biomedicine, chemistry, geosciences, computer sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics, engineering, ecology, and the social sciences.
Users need to untick 'Include Preview-Only content' for full text content - content with closed padlocks is not available to UON.
Taylor and Francis
Full text journal articles from the publishers of Taylor and Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press. Subject areas including science and technology, social sciences and humanities.
Web of science
Indexes high impact journals through ISI's citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded - 1956 to present; Social Sciences Citation Index - 1956 to present; Arts and Humanities Citation Index - 1975 to present.
Wiley Online library
Journals, books, reference works, laboratory manuals and the Cochrane Library. Content covers a wide range of subjects including: Medicine, science, engineering and the social sciences.

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Education: Find Journal Articles

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