Guides: Education (Seaver): Finding Articles

Education Databases

Education Full Text
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)
via EBSCOhost; ERIC is also available to search with Education Full-Text, and in a free version at http://www.eric.ed.gov/
PsycINFO
Access to nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in over 25 languages. Includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
PsycARTICLES
From the American Psychological Association (APA), full text, peer-reviewed scholarly articles in psychology from 1894 to the present.
ECAR (Educause Center for Applied Research)
Research about the application and use of information technology in higher education. To access the ECAR publications you will need to create an EDUCAUSE profile (username and password).

Databases containing School Magazines

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.

Tips on locating empirical research

To find articles that report on empirical research, some keywords you might want to use:

study, results, discussion, data, variables, limitations, implications, survey, respondents, population, conclusion

Such terms should be searched as keywords rather than subject terms because they reflect the kind of language used in an article describing empirical research, but they are not the topic or subject of the study.

Helpful Electronic Resources

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.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
Doctoral dissertations and master's theses, from 1743 to the present. Full text for most dissertations since 1997.
Nexis Uni
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.
National Academies Press
PDFs of books in the physical and social sciences published by National Academies Press since 1980. Includes full-text searching capabilities.
ProQuest E-Book Central This link opens in a new window
Online books - use Advanced Search for more precise results

News

Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Presents news and information for college and university faculty and students.