ERIC
ERIC is the most complete database of journal literature, books, and
other publications related to education, educational psychology, and
child-related research literature.

ERIC Documents have an ED number, e.g. ED400625 - write it down.
Many recent ERIC Documents are full-text online in the ERIC Database itself.
Most older ERIC Documents are available on microfiche in Cabell Library,
3rd floor and can be copied and/or delivered via an ILLIAD request.
links are provided for finding full-text articles.
ERIC uses the * symbol for truncation

APA PsycNET
APA PsycNET, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million
citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations,
all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the
covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the
psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology,
education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected
from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
APA PsycNET uses the * symbol for truncation
The exact phrase operator (double quotes) will find the exact phrase.
By bordering your query terms with double quotation marks,
you can search for exact matches to whatever is inside the quotation marks.
For example, "early personality development" searches for the exact phrase,
but not personality development, early development of personality, etc.
Use   to find full-text of articles not provided in APA PsycNET

Education Research Complete
(included in VCU Libraries Meta-search above)
 A partially full text database covering scholarly research and information
relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education
from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties,
such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy,
funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and
abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text for more
than 950 journals. This database also includes full text for 81 books and monographs,
and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.
Education Research Complete uses the * symbol for truncation
Use   to find full-text of articles not provided in
Education Research Complete

SPORT DISCUS
(especially useful for Physical Education and Recreation research)
(1830 - present)
    Abstracts of articles from the international literature on sport and
recreation research.
links are provided for finding full-text articles.
SPORT DISCUS uses the * symbol for truncation.

Lexis/Nexis
(especially useful for Education Law and news stories)
This provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines ,
legal & court case information, broadcast news transcripts and more.
Lexis/Nexis uses the ! symbol for truncation
 

ABI-Inform
(especially useful for Educational leadership research)
 ABI-Inform provides citations, abstracts and (often, but not always)
full text articles from business,  management, and financial journals.
After searching, results can be sorted by these categories:
 Scholarly Journals--Magazines--Trade Publications--
Newspapers--Reference/Reports-- Dissertations
or viewed all together.
ABI-Inform uses the * symbol for truncationABI-Inform

links are provided for finding full-text articles.
 

Mental Measurements Yearbook
    Coverage: (1985 - present)
    Information about and reviews of standardized tests principally in the
fields of education and psychology. Information for each test includes author,
scoring information, overview, description, and one or more reviews.
Yearbook 9 - present.
Mental Measurements Yearbook uses the * symbol for truncation

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)
CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,737 journals from the fields
of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000
records dating back to 1982.
CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship,
alternative/complementary medicine, nutrition,
consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
CINAHL uses the * symbol for truncation
Use   to find full-text of articles listed in CINAHL
 

Dissertations and Theses Full Text (Proquest)
    Coverage: (1637 - present)
    Full text for most dissertations from 1997 to the present.
Includes full text for some earlier dissertations, along with over 2.4 million
dissertations and theses citations from around the world.
 

VCU Libraries Search   NEW
(the search box located on our VCU Libraries homepage)

Introductory online videos
Simple Searching at VCU Libraries
Narrowing your VCU Libraries Search
Advanced Searching at VCU Libraries

The VCU Libraries Search allows users to search hundreds of millions of items simultaneously, including:
    VCU Libraries books and media
    Research databases like ERIC and MEDLINE
    E-journal collections like JSTOR and Science Direct
    The VCU Libraries Digital Collections
    Legal, governmental, and archival materials
VCU Libraries Search retrieves all of the items it can find that meet your search terms,
whether from individual publishers or from open-access scholarly repositories.
You can find even more results not owned by VCU using either the "Expand My Results"
option from the search results page,
or the "Recommendations" link that appears for many search results.
VCU Libraries patrons can access items held by other institutions via Interlibrary Loan Services,
or in-person visits to Richmond Academic Library Consortium members.
Not everything is included in the VCU Libraries Search, so you may wish to search individual
research databases using Databases A-Z.
Not sure which database to search? Start with one of our Research Guides.
If you have questions, ask us.

Use  to find full-text of articles not provided in
VCU Libraries Search
 

For other potentially useful databases for Education research,
see our VCU Library Research Guides .

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Page composed by Dan Ream
Last updated  January, 2012