LibGuides: Education: Find Articles

Open Access Journal Databases

Digital Commons Network
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Open University Research
Peer-reviewed publications featuring over 30,000 research outputs across a broad range of OU research from science to arts.

Video and Magazine Sources

Alexander Street Video Collections This link opens in a new window
Stream videos from six Alexander Street Press Collections: 1) American History, 2) Art and Architecture, 3) Classical Music, 4) Education, 5) Filmmakers Library (documentaries), and 6) World History. You can search all six collections simultaneously or choose just one collection from the drop-down menu.
Teaching Channel This link opens in a new window
Use Teaching Channel to watch professional development videos needed for your program or graduate coursework. Additional options include self-reflection, coaching, and collaboration and networking.
MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for hundreds of popular high school level magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers, and more. Provides full text of biographies; primary source documents; reference books; and an Image Collection containing photos, maps, and flags, with color PDFs.
Masterfile Premier This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for general interest magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. Provides full text; primary source documents; reference books; and an Image Collection containing photos, maps and flags.

Citing Sources

APA Style Basics @ Purdue OWL
Print copies of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association are on Reserve at the Circulation Desk.
Chicago Manual of Style @ Purdue OWL
A print copy of the Chicago Manual of Style is in the Reference Collection shelved at the call number R. 808.027 C43c.
MLA Style Basics@Purdue OWL
Print copies of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers are on Reserve at the Circulation Desk.

Education

ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The ERIC database has full text and citation entries for journal articles, books, conference papers, dissertations, and handbooks. The thesaurus, linked at the top of the page in the grey bar, lists standard vocabulary terms for the database to use for more effective searching.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Professional Development Collection is an EBSCO database including citations, abstracts, and some full text for peer-reviewed education journals. Results can be restricted to full text only by clicking the limiter under the search bar. The "Subjects" tab under the advanced search is helpful for refining search results if you have narrowed down your topic.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX is an EBSCO database offering comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include criminology, criminal justice, ethnic and racial studies, social psychology, social structure, social work, substance abuse, addictions, violence, and many others. Results can be restricted to full text only by clicking the limiter under the search bar. The "Subjects" tab under the advanced search is helpful for refining search results if you have narrowed down your topic.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Professional Development Collection includes citations, abstracts, and some full text for peer-reviewed education journals supporting professional growth and learning for educators, library professionals, and education students.

General

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database offers full text coverage of information spanning a broad range of subjects sourced from a variety of open access journals. There is also some related video content and indexed journal citations for non-full text articles. Search the “Subject Terms", accessible in the banner at the top of the page, for a list of standardized vocabulary to get more accurate search results.
Article First This link opens in a new window
This database contains the table of contents pages and holdings information from more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Although most of the journals are published in English, journals in other languages are also included. Coverage is from 1990 to the present. Updated daily.
ECO (Electronic Collections Online) This link opens in a new window
This collection of scholarly journal titles covers subjects such as agriculture, anthropology, business, economics, education, fine arts, geography, history, language, law, library science, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, social science, and technology. Coverage is from 1995 to the present.