InfoGuides: Education: Find Scholarly Articles

Key Education Databases

Overview

The databases on this page provide Education-specific articles. Some databases are managed by the same company, so they may appear the same, but they will provide different results.

For additional research help, contact the Education Librarian, or review the Library Databases Search Strategies video.

Core Education Databases

APA PsycInfo (EBSCO)
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
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.
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.
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.

All Education Databases

Education and Higher Education Databases
Additional databases may be found on the Education subject on the Library's website

Education MetaSearch Tool

This metasearch tool allows you conduct a real-time search across 20 databases and ejournal collections.

Select Scholarly Education Journals

Subscription Journals

These select journals require George Mason University affiliation to access. This is a small selection of journals available. These have been included based on relevance to the discipline.

American Educational Research Journal
Features articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education and learning.
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.
Educational Research Review
Reviews studies in education and instruction at any level.
Journal of Teacher Education
Provides a vital forum for considering practice, policy, and research in teacher education.
Review of Educational Research
Publishes critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education.

Open Access Journals

Open access journals are ones that do not require an institutional subscription to access. This means they are free to use and share. The ones in this list have been selected as they are highly cited in the discipline.

Education Sciences
Education Sciences is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on education published monthly online by MDPI. The European Network of Sport Education (ENSE) is affiliated with Education Sciences and its members receive discounts on the article processing charges.
Frontiers in Education
A multidisciplinary journal that explores research-based approaches to education for human development. It focuses on the global challenges and opportunities education faces, ultimately aiming to improve educational outcomes.

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