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Welcome to the Education Research Starter. This guide will help get you started with research for your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Research Starters
Looking for a good place to start your research? Try one of these recommended resources from the Libraries:
- Education Source This link opens in a new window The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, conference papers, and citations for over 4 million articles.
- ERIC This link opens in a new window The Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index, dating back to 1966.
- Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Other Databases
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Alternate Link: Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO Classic Interface)
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.
- Primary Search This link opens in a new window Provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
- Middle Search Plus This link opens in a new window Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines, with all full text articles assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays.
- MAS Ultra-School Edition This link opens in a new window Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines, and provides access to more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 items.