InfoGuides: Higher Education: Find Research

Research databases & Journals

Education Database
Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
Education Research Complete
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.
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.
LearnTechLib
Contains over thirty years worth of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.
Web of Science: Core Collection
Contains citations and searchable author abstracts, covering scholarly literature in journals, books and conference proceedings. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Emerging Sources Citation Index. Additional resources available by selecting from the dropdown list next to the Core Collection heading.
Wiley Online Library
Provides access to: the full-text of nearly 1500 journals; the table of contents and abstracts of print books and reference works; as well as some full-text access to e-books. Subject areas include the sciences, social sciences, business, education, law, computer science and technology.

All Education Databases

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

American Educational Research Journal
Publishes original peer-reviewed analyses spanning the field of education research across all subfields and disciplines and all levels of analysis, all levels of education throughout the life span and all forms of learning.
Education & Urban Society
Communicates new ideas on educational processes, controversies, research, and policy. It places special emphasis on the relationship between educators and society.
Educational Researcher
Publishes scholarly articles that are of general significance to the education research community and that come from a wide range of areas of education research and related disciplines. Published nine times a year, ER aims to make major programmatic research and new findings of broad importance widely accessible.
Journal of Higher Education
Publishes original research reporting on the academic study of higher education as a broad enterprise.
Journal of Research on Leadership Education
Provides an international venue for scholarship and discourse on the teaching and learning of leadership across the many disciplines that inform the field of educational leadership.
Sociology of Education
A forum for studies in the sociology of education and human social development.

Open Access Journals

These journals are free to use and share. They do not require institutional subscriptions to access.

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Education meta search tool

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

Educational Tests and Measurements

We have an entire guide dedicated to tests and measurements. Use it to help locate these materials.

Educational Tests & Measurements
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