LibGuides: Learning Analytics in Higher Education: Specialized Databases

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)

Specialized Databases

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Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Content: An education database covering curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Purpose: A specialized database for academic, scholarly, and peer-reviewed resources in the field of education.
Special Features: Includes a tool to discover citing articles, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a thesaurus feature to assist you in the discovery process.
It also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Content: Government (Department of Education) database focusing on education research and information.
Purpose: Excellent database to use for all topics in education.
Special Features: After an initial search, filter by audience, grade level, survey used, and main topic. Includes a thesaurus to aid in the discovery process.
Help using this database.
This federally subsidized database indexes both journals and other resources important to educators.

ERIC Journals (EJ): journal articles
ERIC Documents (ED): all non-journal materials (some books, unpublished reports, and presentations)

Some faculty limit use of EDs
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete This link opens in a new window
Journals, books and magazines covering preschool to college levels and bilingual education studies, health, technology and testing. Includes a visualization tool and browse by topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, ability to highlight and add notes to text, and read-aloud feature.
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete This link opens in a new window
Journals, books and magazines covering preschool to college levels and bilingual education studies, health, technology and testing. Includes a visualization tool and browse by topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, ability to highlight and add notes to text, and read-aloud feature.
LearnTechLib This link opens in a new window
Content: Ebooks, journals, and conference proceedings related to education and instruction.
Purpose: Informs users of trends and theories regarding education and instruction.
Special Features: Users may explore topics or search for particular formats.
ProQuest Education Database This link opens in a new window
Content: Includes full-text scholarly journals and dissertations supporting research on the theory and practice of education. It also covers literature and research on special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
Purpose: Provides access to a large range of full-text journals and dissertations supporting research on the theory and practice of education..
Special Features: Includes a read-aloud feature.