Databases and Periodical Indexes

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

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.
• ScienceDirect Full-text scholarly journals from the sciences, including the social sciences, published within the last five years.

  Additional Education Databases to Search:

• Expanded Academic Index Articles/citations from interdisciplinary scholarly journals and general interest magazines.
• PsycInfo Citations and abstracts for psychology journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations.
• 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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