Guide to Education Research 
Databases, Indexes and Abstracts

Databases

Child Welfare Information Gateway
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides access to print and electronic publications, websites and online databases covering a wide range of topics including child welfare, child abuse, neglect, adoption, search and reunion and much more.

Current Contents. (Via WebSPIRS)
Contains the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from thousands of journals.

Directory of Open Access Journals (Social Sciences: Education)

Provides full text access online to articles in journals in education and a variety of disciplines.

 

Dissertation Abstracts International.
This resource provides a subject, title, and author guide to over 1.2 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses written since 1861.

    Current Research - SDSU- provides access to the full text (pdf) of recent dissertations and theses completed at SDSU.

 

EBSCO Academic Search Premier

A database that includes peer reviewed journals, Academic Search Premier provides full text access to over 4,600 periodicals some as far back as 1975. Over 8,000 journals are indexed. Full text coverage includes a wide variety of disciplines: biology, chemistry, engineering, humanities physics, psychology, religion, sociology, to name a few.

 

ERIC via CSA

ERIC on the Web
The premier national database that provides indexing and abstracts of educational literature from 1966 to the present. It lists journal articles (EJs)  and ERIC documents (EDs) including research reports, project and technical reports, curriculum guides, and more. 

 

ERIC Digests. (available via ERIC on the Web)

Eric Digests are short reports on current issues and topics in education. They are designed to give an overview of information and references to more detailed information. This full-text database contains over 2,466 digests. New digests are added quarterly.

 

HaPI

Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers in finding measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.

InfoTrac.
Resources for K-12 students and educators.

JSTOR.
Provides electronic full text/image access to the back issues of more than 125 scholarly journals in many fields including education.

LexisNexis Academic.
Indexes and provides full-text articles from newspapers, periodicals and legal publications.

LexisNexis Congressional.
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

LexisNexis Statistical.
An index to statistical data produced by the U.S. government; important international intergovernmental organizations; and knowledgeable professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.

MarciveWeb DOCS.
Provides citations to United States government publications from July 1976 to the present.

ProQuest.
ProQuest provides access to several different bibliographic and full-text databases covering a wide variety of disciplines and topics relevant to education.  Many full-text journal articles are provided.

PsycINFO. (1872+, via CSA)
This American Psychological Association database covers journal articles, book chapters, and book literature in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as sociology, education, anthropology, and others. It contains citations with abstracts to journals, books, and book chapters in psychology and the behavioral sciences.  

Sociological Abstracts. (1963+, via CSA)
The Sociological Abstracts database indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles from sociology and related disciplines. In addition, it covers relevant association papers and PhD and Master's theses. Older journal articles are also covered in the paper Sociological Abstracts shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts & Indexes area (305.So15).

Teacher Reference Center (via EBSCOhost)

Provides indexing and abstracting to over 280 trade and peer reviewed journals for educators and and administrators. Topics include curriculum, assessment, higher education, K-12 education, educational technology, and a host of relevant topics in education.

 

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary database of citations and abstracts from journal literature includes Social Science Citation Index, 2001-present and Science Citation Index Expanded, 1992-present.

 

WorldCat

Bibliographic resource containing millions of records for books, videos, journals, newspapers, Web resources, and a variety of information resources cataloged by OCLC libraries worldwide.

Paper Indexes

Education Index. 1929-1998. (Abstracts & Indexes 370.5 .Ed81)
Indexes more than 339 scholarly/professional journals covering most areas of education including methods and problems as well as broader societal conditions that affect education.

Educational Administration Abstracts. 1967-1999. (Abstracts & Indexes 371.05 .Ws832)
A quarterly listing of abstracts for articles relevant to educational administration from approximately 140 professional journals, professional books, and other sources. Abstracts are arranged under broad subject headings and o annual or cumulative indexes are provided. 1997-present available in ProQuest - Research Libraries.

Exceptional Child Education Resources. 1970-2001. (Abstracts & Indexes 371.905 .Ex22)
This abstracting publication provides extensive coverage of the world's literature dealing with special education and gifted education.

State Education Journal Index. 1965-2003. (Abstracts & Indexes 370.5 .St29)
An index to state education association journals.