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Education-Related Databases



Recommended Source - These are good places to start!

Academic Search Complete
  • Good starting place
  • Covers many disciplines - including most aspects of education
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Annual Reviews Online
  • Analytic literature reviews
  • Written by experts who examine the primary research related to a specific topic
  • More info...
British Education Index
(Free Collections)
  • Search BEI's free collections including: Education-Line, various web resources, and citations to some journals not included in the BEI subscription database
Business Source Complete
  • For topics such as leadership, management, organizational communication, etc
  • More info...
Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Subcriber-level access to the web site
  • Full text Chronicle archives back to 1989
  • More info...
CINAHL
  • Nuring database
  • Good for rehabilitation and other special education topics
  • More info...
Cochrane Library
  • Up-to-date information on evidence-based medicine and the effects of interventions in health care
  • More info...
Communication & Mass Media Complete
  • Good coverage of communication disorders topics
  • Useful for some educational technology topics
  • More info...
Daily Life Through History
  • Details about what daily life was like in different cultures and different eras
  • Teacher lesson plans and tons of primary source material
  • More info...
Dissertation Abstracts International
  • Theses & dissertations from UT and other schools 
  • Most titles after 1997 include full text
  • More info…
EBSCOhost Databases
Combined Search
  • Search multiple EBSCO databases simultaneously
  • Try combining ERIC and PsycINFO!
  • More info…
EdITLib
  • Full text journals and conference proceedings from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
  • More info...
Education Full Text
  • Good starting place
  • Best tool for searching education-related journals!
  • More info…
Education Index Retrospective
  • Older journal articles in education. 
  • Covers 1927-1983
  • More info…
ERIC (EBSCO)
  • Good starting place
  • Education journal articles, proceedings, government documents, reports, books, etc.
  • More info…
Google Scholar
  • Use Google to search for academic-level literature
  • Start your search from a UT Libraries site to be connected to our full text collections!
  • More info…
HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) Bibliography
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
  • For finding tests and measurements from journals and books
  • More info…
Inspec
Journal Citation Reports
(JCR): Social Sciences
  • Provides “impact” data for some education journals
  • More info…
Legal Trac
  • Articles from legal reviews and law journal
  • Good for education law and policy
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LLBA
(Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts)
  • Great place for language arts, language learning, bilingual ed, etc.
  • More info…
Mental Measurements Yearbook
  • Reviews and publisher info for most tests and measurements
  • More info…
PAIS
  • For finding policy-related journal articles and documents
  • More info…
PsycINFO
  • Good starting point
  • For child development/psychology, cognition, learning, etc.
  • More info…
Social Services Abstracts
  • For issues related to child welfare, social programs, etc.
  • More info…
Sociological Abstracts
  • For researching social issues that effect education
  • More info…
Stat!Ref
  • Full text of medical and psychiatric reference books (DSMV-IV, PDR, etc.)
  • More info…
Web of Science
(Social Science Citation Index)
  • Covers many disciplines
  • Includes many prominent education journals. Citation tracking
  • More info…