LibGuides: EdD Resources: Online Databases

Research Databases

Use the databases below to narrow and focus your search for education related topics.
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eBook Collection (EBSCO)* This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of academic electronic books from EBSCO. (Formerly NetLibrary ebooks.)
Education Source (EBSCO)* This link opens in a new window
Covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. It includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, and citations for more than 5 million articles.
Educational Administration Abstracts* (Not Full Text) This link opens in a new window
This research database includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
ERIC (EBSCO)* This link opens in a new window
Over 700,000 citations on research documents, journal articles, program descriptions and evaluations, curricular materials and technical reports in education. Government site has more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966 and more than 107,000 full text non journal documents. Moving forward with modernization program to bring you more free materials in the education field. (Some full-text)
ERIC (Gov't) This link opens in a new window
Over 700,000 citations on research documents, journal articles, program descriptions and evaluations, curricular materials and technical reports in education. Government site has more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966 and more than 107,000 full text non journal documents. Moving forward with modernization program to bring you more free materials in the education field. (Some full-text)
Legal Collection* This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Lexis-Nexis Universe* (Now Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to hundreds of full-text newspapers, periodicals and legal papers from the U.S. and some foreign sources. Broken down into five sections: News, Business, Legal Research, Medicine and Reference.
Proquest Digital Dissertations & Theses Global* This link opens in a new window
Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in Dissertation Abstracts plus all dissertations with a degree date of 2000 or 2001. Full text is available for some dissertations. Choose Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global from the list.
PsycArticles* This link opens in a new window
Definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

PsycINFO
From the APA-contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. Includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages. (Some full-text)

Sage Research Methods Online* This link opens in a new window
Online collection of books, journals, and reference materials that provide authoritative information on how to perform hundreds of research methods appropriate to your research question.