Library: Education: Education

Welcome to the Education LibGuide!

How to use this guide:

This guide provides resources that may be helpful to Education classes.

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To see special resources for Education students, view the DATA & RESEARCH, TEACHING RESOURCES, LESSON PLAN RESOURCES, and PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS pages on the left.
To find information on citations and bibliography, click CITING.

Education Journals

Literacy Journals

Backfiles (4 years old or older)

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy backfiles
Full text access from 1995 to 4 years ago
Reading Research Quarterly backfiles
Full text access from 1965 to 4 years ago
Reading Teacher backfiles
Full text access from 1951 to 4 years ago

Recommended Databases

Education Source This link opens in a new window Full-text for more than 2,000 journals and 1,700 conference papers related to education. Includes content from Education Research Complete
ERIC via EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) contains more than 1.5 million records and thousands of full-text documents related to education.
Videatives This link opens in a new window
Videatives, Inc. offers you easy access to more than 360+ video clips with supporting text that stream directly to any computer with a connection to the internet.
Videatives addresses concepts that children learn through play; teaching early science to two and three year olds; emerging literacy from gestures, to drawing, to print; using clay, markers, and other media as a language of inquiry; outdoor play as a place for high level thinking; identifying advanced levels of collaborative play; how infants form attachments to other infants and adults; how leadership is developed during pretend play; asking children to explain the symbols they invent during block play; how to ask questions that stimulate creative thinking and strategies one year olds use to get information from the five senses.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Resources to answer your research methods and statistics questions.
Find resources to answer your research methods and statistics questions. Includes more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to nearly journal articles especially for educators, librarians, and education researchers.
eBook Collections (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to over 280,000 ebooks across a variety of subject disciplines.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education and every educational specialty, such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing, and provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
Explora Educator's Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides access to lesson plans, student tools, curriculum standards and links to sites valuable for teachers.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window This database is the world's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association for the discovery of global scholarly research.