Guides: ELAP: Finding Articles

Relevant Research Databases

Academic Search Elite
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH - GENERAL

These online sources are good places to start your research. For quick reference, hold your mouse over a link for a brief description of the resource.

For more suggested sources, go to the tabs at the top of the page.

JSTOR
Access the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VI, & VII and over 40,000 ebooks on the JSTOR platform; book chapters and journal articles are cross-searchable. JSTOR is an extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering subject disciplines in Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.

Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
DISSERTATIONS FULL TEXT

Databases for K-12 Students

MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed for high school libraries, contains high school magazines, full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and a School Image Collection.
Primary Search
Contains full text for elementary school magazines including Boys' Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack and Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider and SuperScience.

Education Databases

Education Full Text
EDUCATION RESEARCH
Provides access to more than 770 periodicals as far back as 1983, over 440 of which are peer-reviewed; includes abstracting coverage from January 1994 and full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996. Topics include contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based education, and information technology You can search ERIC together with this database by clicking on '+Open Database Selection Area' and checking the box next to ERIC
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
EDUCATION RESEARCH
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials plus links to more than 323,000 full-text documents from ERIC. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). via EBSCOhost; ERIC is also available to search with Education Full-Text, and in a free version at http://www.eric.ed.gov/
PsycINFO
PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
Access to nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports. Includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and languages.
ECAR (Educause Center for Applied Research)
EDUCATION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Provides access to timely research about the application and use of information technology in higher education. To access the ECAR publications you will need an EDUCAUSE profile (username and password). If you do not already have an EDUCAUSE profile you can create one by selecting the login key at the top of ECAR web site