Education Databases
Core Resources - Specialized Education Databases - Cited Reference Searching
Core Resources
- ERIC (1966-)
ERIC is the largest database of materials for education in world. It contains annotated references to journal articles and to non-journal documents such as research reports, lesson plans, curriculum guides, information analyses, conferences presentations, bibliographies and more. Coverage begins with 1966 and more than 1,000,000 records are included. Learn more about the ERIC database.
- Education Full Text (1983-)
New interface for Education Abstracts
Indexes English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Citations are included for publications since 1983, and abstracts from 1994 to the present. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more. Covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. Provides citations for every article of at least one column in length taken from more than 550 sources. Includes citations to book reviews and selected series and supplements. The database is updated monthly. Earlier coverage is available from The Education Index Retrospective.
- Education Index Retrospective (1929-1983)
Covering a century of research, this database provides cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals and yearbooks. It includes accurate, detailed, cover-to-cover indexing of some 500 periodicals, as far back as 1929! It cites nearly one million articles, including book reviews.
Specialized Education Databases
- Child Development & Adolescent Studies
Covers materials relating to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year. Based on Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography for 1927-2001 by the Society for Research in Child Development.
- Chinese Educational Resources Information Centre Project (Chinese ERIC) Freely Available
This project aims to establish a free electronic database of citations to educational studies from the Chinese communities of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Coverage begins with 1990 and records are in both English and Chinese. Currently the database includes citations for theses and dissertations from the Chinese University and for articles from 18 leading Chinese education journals.
- Chronicle of Higher Education
Web version of the major news source for college and university faculty members and administrators. Includes academic postings.
- College Source
A virtual library representing college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.
- Encyclopedia of Education
Approximately 900 articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice.
- International Bibliographic Database on Higher Education (HEDBIB) Freely Available
Available in English, this is a bibliography of more than 30,000 citations to worldwide literature on higher education since 1988. The coverage emphasizes higher education systems, administration, planning and policy, costs and finances, evaluation of higher education, issues related to staff and students, cooperation, mobility and equivalence of degrees, curricula, teaching methods and learning processes. Several organizations participate in the production of this source which is coordinated by the International Association of Universities (IAU). Also available from IAU are databases providing descriptions of educational systems and a list of universities.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook
This searchable database includes extracts from the full-text of the reviews and descriptive information about tests and measurement instruments that are contained in the print title of the same name (Z5814.P8R91 Regenstein 4th Floor Reading Room). Coverage begins with the 9th edition (1980) and continues to the present. The database is updated every six months. The producer of the database, the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, removes older entries from the database when a new edition of a test is published. Buros offers a free service, Test Reviews Online, that provides excerpts from reviews for more than 4,000 commercially published tests.
- Mathematics Education Database = MATHDI
This database provides the indexing contained in the documents section of the publication Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik (ZDM) / International Reviews on Mathematical Education, published by the European Mathematical Society. The database, beginning with 1976, provides indexing for materials in mathematics education and computer science education at all levels, from pre-school to teacher training and adult education. Topics range from research and practice of mathematics education to the basic pedagogical and psychological issues affecting mathematics education. Approximately 50% of the citations are to journal articles taken from more than 500 journal titles. The remainder of the citations are to a wide array of materials: textbooks, research reports, conference papers, dissertations, curriculum guides, audiovisual materials, software, and monographs including citations for individual chapters. The database utilizes a specialized Mathematics Education Subject Classification (MESC) scheme that includes a digit representing the grade or difficulty level of the material. A list of serial titles indexed by ZDM and MathDI is available.
- Professional Development Collection
Specialized collection of journals designed for professional educators. Full-text is included for approximately 500 titles, with some content dating as far back as 1965. The database includes indexing only for about 100 additional titles.
- Teacher Reference Center Freely Available
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
- World Education Encyclopedia
This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This edition provides up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and technological advances.
- World of Learning
Entries for over 30,000 academic institutions worldwide, as well as more than 400 cultural, scientific, and educational organizations.
Cited Reference Searching
"Who Cited Whom"
- Scopus
Scopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 15,000 journals in the sciences and social sciences, and is strong for education research. Scopus also features cited references and can be searched for articles that cite a specific article.
- Social Sciences Citation Index
Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. Indexes more than 1,725 journals for social sciences disciplines. Provides access to information from 1956 forward. Includes all cited references captured from indexed articles. Part of the Web of Science, which also includes the Arts and Humanities and Science Citation Indexes. Allows searching by cited author as well as author, title, and keyword.
