LibGuides: Education (Post-Secondary): Finding Articles

Databases for Research

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.

Education Source This link opens in a new window
Education Source is the largest and most complete collection of full text journals in education research. Coverage from 1900-present.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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.
JSTOR - Full Text This link opens in a new window
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.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,700 journals from over 50 countries. This database, provided by the American Psychological Association, also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present.

Google Scholar Advanced Search

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google's index of professional publications. Recommended highly as an adjunct to library resources, and for research needs after graduation, in a work environment. Especially strong in the sciences & technology. NOTE: ON CAMPUS USE will include and access to MSU copies of the articles.

Note about ERIC

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 These are not peer-reviewed.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.

ERIC on the Web