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Key Databases

Educational Administration Abstracts
Abstracts of literature concerning educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, and educational research.
Education Database
Gives users access to over 900 educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text from 1988 to present. Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling, and adult education.
Education Research Complete
Covers all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education. Provides indexing for over 1,800 journals, as well as full-text for over 900 journals, 81 books, and numerous education-related conference papers.
ERIC
References to thousands of educational topics. Indexes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, standards, guidelines and more. ERIC documents (non-journal literature) are available full-text, 1993 to the present.
ScienceDirect
Access (searching and browsing) journals and eBooks published by Elsevier and its partners. Covers most disciplines, including science, medicine, economics and the social sciences.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes more than 3,000 journals across 55 social science disciplines, as well as selected items from 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Covers from 1900 to the present. Part of Web of Science.

More Education Databases

Additional may be found on the Education subject on the Library's website

HeinOnline
Image-based legal research database includes such collections as: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, Treaties and Agreements Library and more. Bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of law and law-related periodicals.
Nexis Uni
Formerly LexisNexis Academic. Provides access to a wide range of news (includes New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times), business (company news, industry forecasts), government (legislative news, tax information), legal (news, case law) and reference information.
ProQuest Supreme Court Insight
Supreme Court Insight, 1897 to present, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. The collection also includes Supreme Court cases from 1975 through present, in which the petition for writ of certiorari is denied.

FindPolicy.org
Search across leading think tanks in a policy area. Search engines within FindPolicy include: Climate, Economy, Development, Foreign Policy, and general Public Policy. There are also country-level and regional searches.
Left Index
A complete guide to the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. A secondary emphasis is on significant but little known sources of news and ideas. Covers topics such as politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.
Policy File Index
Access domestic and foreign public policy research and analytical papers on governmental and legal topics, representing the work of think tanks, research groups, and academic institutes from 1990 to present.
Public Administration Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Key Journals

American Educational Research Journal
Features articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education and learning. Coverage: 1999 to the present and coverage back to 1964 is available in JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV
American Journal of Education
Seeks to bridge and integrate the intellectual, methodological, and substantive diversity of educational scholarship, and to encourage a vigorous dialogue between educational scholars and practitioners. Coverage from 2003 to the present
Review of Educational Research
Publishes critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education. Coverage from 1931 to the present

Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal
highlights legal and policy issues currently affecting elementary, secondary, and higher education
from 1992 to present
Education Law Journal
Focuses on issues arising from the interaction of law and education at the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels
from 2005 to present
International Journal for Education Law & Policy
Provides a critical review of contemporary developments in educational law.
2005 to present
Journal of Law and Education
Devoted exclusively to school law, with emphasis on critical current & emerging issues, serving both the legal & educational professions.
from 01/01/2005 to the present
Yearbook of Education Law
Contains analyses of the previous year's federal and state court decisions that affect private and public elementary and secondary schools and higher education.
from 1997 to present

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Publishes rigorous, policy-relevant research of interest to those engaged in educational policy analysis, evaluation, and decision making. Coverage from 1979 to the present
Educational Policy
Examines the relationship between educational policy and educational practice, and sheds new light on important debates and controversies within the field.
from 03/01/1987 to present
Educational Policy Analysis Archives (open access)
a peer-reviewed, open-access, international, multilingual, and multidisciplinary journal designed for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and development analysts concerned with education policies.
1993 to present
Education Finance and Policy
Topics explored in the journal include: school accountability; school choice; education standards; equity and adequacy in school finance; within- and across-school and district resource allocation; teacher compensation; training and labor markets; instructional policy; higher education productivity and finance; and special education.
from Winter 2006 to present
International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership
Dedicated to enriching the education policy, leadership, and research use knowledge bases, and promoting exploration and analysis of policy alternatives.
from 01/01/2009 to present
Journal of Education Policy
Publishes original, critically and theoretically informed research that discusses, analyses and debates policymaking, policy implementation and the impact of policy at all levels and in all facets of formal and informal education
from 01/01/1997 to present
Phi Delta Kappan
Designed to advance educational research, service and leadership, emphasizes issues, trends, policy decisions.
from 01/01/1994 to present

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