Databases and Periodical Indexes Special & GiftedEducation

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

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

This journal index is not online but is important to this area: Print Journal Abstracts: Exceptional child education resources Ref. Z5814.C52E9 (found on Main floor)

• 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/

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  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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