Research Databases

Research Databases by Subject

Education

• Academic Search Premier — Periodical articles for research in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on basic search screen.
• Career and Technical Education Database — Articles on vocational/technical topics, including technology, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, photography, nursing, and emergency medicine.
• Education Database — Articles from journals indexed in ERIC. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• ERIC — An open access online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
• ERIC (EBSCO) — Educational Resource Information Center contains digests and links to full text articles from educational journals.
• Films on Demand — Streaming video collections offering curriculum-focused content in humanities & social sciences; business & economics; science & mathematics; health & medicine; technical education; family & consumer sciences; careers & job search; guidance & counseling. Thousands of full-length programs and video segments with new titles added monthly.
• Gale Academic OneFile — Articles from periodicals and reference sources in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select “to peer-reviewed publications.”
• Gale OneFile: Biography — Biographical information on noteworthy individuals from past and present across all disciplines and subject areas.
• Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management — Professional Development Resources For Educators that provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more.
• Google Scholar — Open access scholarly literature, articles, journals and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports, court opinions and patents. All broad areas of research, from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, university repositories, and websites.
• Hathi Trust — The largest set of open access ebooks, with millions of titles, covering a broad set of scholarly interests.
• Primary Search — Articles from popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedia entries, and an image collection.
• Project MUSE — Open access academic books and journals in health, history, art history, humanities, literature, culture and diversity, education, music, math, philosophy, sciences, and technology.
• ProQuest Central — Periodical articles from 39 specialized databases in all major subject areas, including thousands of newspapers from around the world. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• Research Library — Articles from periodicals in a wide range of academic subjects. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• Teacher Reference Center — Links to full text articles from the most popular teacher and administrator journals to assist professional educators.
• USA Facts — Provides understandable open access government data and analysis on U.S. spending and outcomes for business and economy, government finances, people and society, and security and safety.