Educational Research Methodology Databases - The University Libraries

Searches Education Full Text and Education Index Retrospective simultaneously.
Indexes almost 500 English-language periodicals and yearbooks as well as some books
Strong on educational and psychological topics including all educational levels, educational administration, child development, and counseling
1929 to present; abstracts since 1994; full text since 1996
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Abstracts for more than 850,000 references to 750 education journals (EJ) as well as published and unpublished educational materials such as school system reports, conference papers, research reports, and dissertations (ED).
Largely English-language. Most journals (EJ) available in Jackson Library.
Most ERIC Documents (ED) are on microfiche in Documents/Microforms area on 2nd Floor Main
Many recent ED publications available in full text
1966 to present
More info on ERIC via EBSCO
More info on ERIC via Institute of Education Sciences

Provides citations (no full-text), author abstracts, and cited references (footnotes to a scholarly article) to more than 2,100 peer-reviewed social science journals.
Dates of coverage: 1956 to present.
Covers K-12, higher, special, and physical education, historical topics in the social sciences, substance abuse, school administration, counseling, library science, educational psychology, and educational research.
Includes the capability to perform a cited reference search, which allows you to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent, or another article.
Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more.
Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Education journals by using Journal Citations Reports.
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Provides citations (no full-text), author abstracts, and cited references (footnotes to a scholarly article) to more than 6,000 peer-reviewed science journals.
Dates of coverage: 1955 to present.
Covers biology, chemistry, nursing, medical sciences, scientific disciplines in education, sport sciences, and substance abuse.
Includes the capability to perform a cited reference search, which allows you to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent, or another article.
Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more.
Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Science journals by using Journal Citations Reports.
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Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
Abstracts and indexes over 7,880 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
Provides the full text of over 4,450 journals (over 3,500 of those are peer-reviewed).
Includes unique or more in-depth full text coverage of about a dozen education titles.
Largely English-language materials. Most materials in Jackson Library.
Dates of coverage vary by title; full text from about 1990.
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Covers articles from more than 1,800 scholarly and popular periodicals, two-thirds of them full text in all subject areas
1984 to present; full text since 1990 but varies by title
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Mix of 2,500 scholarly and popular journals from a variety of disciplines including education and educational psychology
1971 to present
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PsycINFO

Abstracts for over 1,300 periodicals, book chapters and books in psychology, psychiatry, counseling, and related areas. Useful for topics such as school or child psychology, mental health, and behavioral issues.
Large number of foreign language titles.
Jackson library owns only many of the core, English-language titles.
1872 to present
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Full text of about 50 journals from the American Psychological Assn, Canadian Psychological Assn, and Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
Covers all aspects of psychology. Includes related areas such as school counseling, learning disabilities, and educational measurement
Mainly 1988 to present but varies by title
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Provides detailed statistical information (impact factor and total cites) to more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science journals.
Dates of coverage: 1997 to present.
Corresponds to the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index.
Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Social Sciences (includes Education) journals and for the Science journals.
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Archive of over 6,500 studies and 450,000 numeric data files covering a wide range of social science research. Child Care and Early Education Research Connections and International Archive of Education Data are archives of particular interest for ERM students.
Most data downloads include SPSS, SAS, and Stata setup files.
Data downloads may require free account registration

Series of representative samples drawn from the U.S. censuses of 1850 to 2000 and the Puerto Rican censuses of 1910 to 2000.
Includes American Community Survey (ACS) data from 2000 to 2006.
General demographic and socioeconomic data available.

Primary federal entity for collecting education related data.
Reports and published statistics are available. Most datasets are accessible through restricted-use license agreements.
Data are available for all educational levels.

Contains descriptions of over 10,000 tests and research instruments from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Tests in Microfiche Collection and ERIC Document Reproduction Service, tests described in journal articles or book chapters, and descriptions that were created or verified after 1989 of commercially available tests. Tests listed in the collection are NOT available from ERIC/AE; however, those from ETS are available on microfiche in Jackson Library: microfiche LB1131 .T550.
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Contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, aptitude, intelligence, and related areas
Does not have full text of the tests
1972 to present
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Provides practice tests and tutorial course series for GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, Praxis, Nursing Assistant, ACT, SAT, ASVAB, GED, and other educational and occupational tests.
Provides immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of test results.
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Offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

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Lynda Kellam
ERM Librarian