LibGuides: EDUC 6302 and EDUC 6312: Education Databases

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES

Multi-Disciplinary Databases
This group of databases is general and covers many different academic disciplines. If you are still not finding something useful, give these a try. It includes Gale Academic One and ProQuest Research Library.

These library resources below are used quite regularly by our students and may be useful as you work with the databases.

Interlibrary Loan - Journal Article Form
Articles can take 24-72 hours to arrive in your Inbox.
Interlibrary Loan Book Form
Our courier service delivers local items every Tuesday and Friday.
Library Classic Catalog
This searches for both E-books and print books. Click the radio buttons or dropdown menus to maximize your options.
Research Paper Help - Includes over 60 short videos and tutorials on a wide variety of topics related to the creation of writing assignments.
Credo Reference
- Need an overview of a topic or more specific details? Credo Reference consists of over 300 reference titles consisting of an aggregate of 3.1 million entries. It is a great place to find biographical information or other general information about concepts and theories. Use the Length filters to get brief or lengthy descriptions (can often include 3-7 page articles and many are appropriate for master's and doctoral levels).
Self-Guided Research Help
The library's 24/7 help center with tutorials and videos on a wide range of research topics.
HCU Answers
Need to find out something about HCU?

Discovery Streaming
Requires password. See an Education Professor or the Library Reference Desk to obtain it. • Database of more than 1,000 full-length videos segmented into 50,000 segments.
• May be viewed online or downloaded for later use
• Requires a University Passcode which can be obtained from the library Reference Desk or an Education Faculty member.
Educational Administration Abstracts
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Not full text. Abstracts cover areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, and educational research.

Education Resource Information Center (U.S. Government Website) This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. This URL takes patrons to the government's interface, NOT EBSCO. There is a difference in search capabilities and result presentation.
The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.

JSTOR - Education Titles
JSTOR has 156 journal titles which may be of interest to you. This links shows you the title list.
JSTOR - Law Titles
JSTOR has 110 titles archived in the field of law. This link displays the title list of those journals.
JSTOR - Public Policy Titles
JSTOR has archived 33 journals pertaining to public policy and administration. This list presents the title list.
Lexis-Nexis
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Library’s main source of laws and other legal information. Also includes full text news, education law, and reference information
Mental Measurements Yearbook
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• Producused by the Buros Institute
• Comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary, commercially availalbe testing instruments
• Covers educational skills, personality, vocational aptitute, psychology and related areas
• Online version covers volume 9 to the present. Volumes 1 to the present in paper format are located in the Library’s Test Center

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) This link opens in a new window
OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,835,480 theses and dissertations.
ProQuest Dissertations: Humanities & Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
Includes doctoral dissertations and master's theses for the humanities and social sciences. This includes education, psychology, sociology, business, economics, literature, history, criminal justice, etc.
This is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses and is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

These are databases that are designed for K-12 student use.