Welcome to the Education Research Guide

Quick Database Links [All education databases] (requires a UMAccess/OIT account).

Listed in order of relevance for education research.

Education Complete Database
Contains references to articles from 550 periodicals in the field of primary, secondary and higher education. A portion of the articles are provided in full-text.

ERIC
Citations, abstracts and some full text for education journal articles (EJ references) and reports (ED references). ED reports are located on microfiche in the Du Bois Library Microforms Room and many will be full text from this database. Contains citations not found in other databases for education. Same content as in the free ERIC site listed below, but perhaps in a friendlier interface for searching.

Free ERIC Site
A centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), also available for free.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library
Citations to curriculum guides, frameworks and standards published by education authorities at the state, county and municipal level, with some full text. (For microform ed. of most documents see Microfiche 553.)

Academic Search Premiere
Citations, abstracts and full text articles from scholarly and general-interest periodicals relating to social sciences, humanities, education, physical, and biological sciences.

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