These two databases provide access to education literature and are Dr. Erbes' favorites. They can be searched together along with Academic Search Complete, our largest database.
Access to literature and resources covering education topic from pre-K through graduate school, sponsored by the US Department of Education.
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Provides professionally fact-checked and footnoted reports on the most current and controversial issues of the day.
Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.
Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Key questions when evaluating a source:
Education expert and information literacy blogger Mike Caufield came up with these "four moves" for evaluating sources:
Adapted from "Recognition Is Futile: Why Checklist Approaches to Information Literacy Fail and What To Do About It" by Mike Caulfield, February 18, 2018, Hapgood.us
Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Streaming video titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Pepperdine Libraries has access to just as many online books as print books. For information about the various collections of online books, consult this InfoGuide: Ebooks at Pepperdine Libraries
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