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Key Science Education & Teaching Databases

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
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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
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Tutorial for the Teacher Reference Center database.
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.
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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. Tutorial for the Web of Science: Core Collection database.
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. View a tutorial on this database here.

Key Science Education Journals

Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Publishes reports for science education researchers and practitioners on issues of science teaching and learning and science education policy.
from 1996 to present
Journal of Science Teacher Education
Serves as a forum for disseminating high quality research and theoretical position papers concerning preservice and inservice education of science teachers.
from 03/01/1989 to present
Science Activities
Publishes innovative manuscripts that will provide teachers and educators with the best classroom-tested projects, experiments, and curriculum ideas that promote science, inquiry through active learning experiences.
from 1997 to present
Science Education
Original articles on the latest issues and trends occurring internationally in science curriculum, instruction, learning, policy and preparation of science teachers with the aim to advance our knowledge of science education theory and practic
from 1996 to present
Science Educator
Focuses primarily on K-16 STEM issues, especially those topics associated with science education reform, outreach to schools, and the professional development of K-16 science teachers.
from 4/1/2006 to present

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