Databases and Periodical Indexes

Sample Education Databases (for citation, abstract and some full text searching):

Print indexes - on Main Reference Floor (not available online) 

• Higher Education Abstracts Ref LB 2300 C65 
• Education Index Ref Index Table Z5813 E25 

For a list of all education databases go to: Database Locator for Education

Recommended Databases to Start With:

• Academic Search Premiere Searching across subject areas-- much is full text.
• Digital Dissertations U.S. dissertations (first 24 pages viewable online).
• Education Complete Searches educational journals and periodicals, some full text.
• ERIC The premier database for searching educational journals and documents.

Additional Education Databases to Search:

• Expanded Academic Index Articles/citations from interdisciplinary scholarly journals and general interest magazines.
• Kraus Curriculum Development Library Curricula, frameworks, and standards.
• Lexis/Nexis Academic Full text articles from tens of thousands of periodicals, including business and medical periodicals; international, national and college newspapers; law reviews; state and federal case law; and statutory law.
• PsycInfo Citations and abstracts for psychology journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations.
• ScienceDirect Full-text scholarly journals from the sciences, including the social sciences, published within the last five years.
• Social Science Citation Index
• Sociological Abstracts Citations and abstracts for articles from sociology and related (anthropology, education, medicine, social psychology) journals; includes references to U. S. and Canadian dissertations and conference papers.

  Please note: Many of our electronic resources have restricted access from off-campus and are only available to UMass-Amherst students, faculty or staff with an OIT account.

Free ERIC database search site:

ERIC http://www.eric.ed.gov/

Electronic Journals In Education:

• E-journal page for education
• E-Journal Locator -- Type in a journal title to see if the journal title is contained in any of our library subscriptions.

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