Databases for Education
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For the most up-to-date list of databases, please go to the Find Database function of Brandeis Scholar.
To search across multiple databases at one time, use the QuickSearch function of Brandeis Scholar.
Key Databases
- ERIC
- Indexes and abstracts educational resources, including journal articles, books, theses, standards and guidelines, 1966 to present
- Education Research Complete
- A bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
Additional Databases
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- Dissertation Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions (selectively covers Canadian, British and European dissertations, and masters theses), 1861 to present
See also Current Research @ Brandeis University for current Brandeis theses, 1960-present, with downloadable full text for 1996-present
- JSTOR
- Indexes and provides full-text to the older issues of over 100 scholarly journal titles from most disciplines, 1800s to the recent 2-5 years
- Library Literature
- Indexes materials on libraries and librarianship, 1980 to present
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Indexes over 1400 journals, books, and government documents on public policy aspects of business, economics, government and other social science topics, 1972 to present
- PolicyFile
- Indexes and abstracts, with some links to full-text, public policy research and publications from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers, 1990 to present
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 international, English-language social science journals, 1983 to present
- IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service)
- Indexes over 8,000 current federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities; the IRIS Alert Service allows users to create a profile and regularly receive the updated results via e-mail
- Web of Science (multidisciplinary)
- Indexes over 11,000 scholarly journals in the sciences (1945 to present) and the social sciences (1956 to present) and the arts and humanities (1975 to present). Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Indexes articles, with some full text links, to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers, 1980 to present
- LexisNexis Academic
- (Help guide)
- Provides full-text news, business, industry and legal information
- LexisNexis Statistical
- Accesses statistics from federal, state, private and international sources with some links to full text
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
