This is a select list of databases that are the best places to start searching for articles related to education topics available at Murray State University.
The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. Indexes newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals in all disciplines. Contains a significant amount of full-text. Content available from 1915-present.
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources including educational journals and 337,000 full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966.
This is a full-text archive of key academic journals in many disciplines, mostly in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Being an archive, it does NOT USUALLY have the current issues of these journals. Most journals have a “lag time” of 2-5 years.
Highly-specialized collection of electronic information for educators, librarians, and education researchers.
Indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,700 journals from over 50 countries. Includes abstracts for dissertations, books and chapters ranging from 1887 to the present.
Google's index of professional publications. Recommended as an adjunct to library resources. Especially strong in the sciences & technology. NOTE: ON CAMPUS USE will include and access to MSU copies of the articles.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) can be accessed at anytime without being at MSU or with MSU network access.
ERIC indexes two distinct types of materials:
Documents - from working teachers and other professionals. These are not peer-reviewed. Documents cannot be requested via interlibrary loan. If they are not available online, they can be accessed on microfiche at the library.
Journals - Many of these have been peer-reviewed.
You can search "journals" and "documents" separately in ERIC.
The Annenberg EdExchange at Brown University has created three databases to provide access to actionable research for improving students and schools.
