Guides: Education: Databases

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EDUCATION SPECIFIC DATABASES

For Research:

ERIC This link opens in a new window
Articles, research reports, and digests from education-related journals and the U.S. Department of Education.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Specialized information designed for educators, professional librarians and education researchers. Includes more than 450 full-text journals, of which nearly 300 are peer-reviewed.

For children and teens:

Children's eBooks & Audiobooks from OverDrive
Download children's audiobooks and eBooks including fiction, non-fiction, comic books, graphic novels, and more.

In Context: Elementary This link opens in a new window
Designed specifically for beginner researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Covers a wide range of educational topics including science, geography, technology, and more.
Middle Search Plus This link opens in a new window
Designed for middle school level research, this provides popular middle school magazines and reference books. Covering subjects such as history, current events, science and sports, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.
Primary Search This link opens in a new window
Designed for elementary school libraries, EBSCO's Primary Search provides popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection. Students can learn about a variety of topics, including endangered species, famous musicians, fitness and space exploration.
OneFile: High School Edition This link opens in a new window
Designed for middle and high school students and provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a wide range of subjects from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.
Formerly called Student Edition

OTHER DATABASES COVERING EDUCATION

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning. Includes extensive coverage in key subject areas such as biology, chemistry, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A collection of core scholarly journals, many going back to the first volume. Emphasis is on back issue coverage and does not include the current 3-5 years, unless Gordon has a current subscription to the journal. JSTOR provides long term preservation for journals.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Provides over 2 million digitized entries from Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Find facts, figures, definitions, quotations, translations, and illustrations covering 25 subject areas such as history, linguistics, medicine and health, music, and religion.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
World's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it includes more than 4 million bibliographic records and indexing of more than 2,500 journals.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A searchable collection of scholarly online journals published by Sage, covering humanities, natural science, education, fine arts, music, and social science

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