LibGuides: Education Doctoral Program Orientation: Research Sources

Literature Review Resources

You may find these worksheets helpful as you read through your sources. They can help you identify themes and summarize the salient points of the sources.

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Major Education Databases

These are the education subject-specific databases to which the Doane library subscribes. See the list below for subject-related databases.

Education Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Search both ERIC and the full-text Education Database to get journal articles, books, dissertations, and more.
Education Source (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Find journal articles and books for all levels of education, as well as thousands of educational tests.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
This is the standard index to literature in education, from the U.S. Department of Education. Use Education Collection to search ERIC along with ProQuest's Education Database for more results.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Search education topics such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing, and get insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Includes sources from the ERIC database.

Databases on Related Subjects

These databases cover subjects that may be related to education. Check the Databases A-Z list for other databases.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Provides reviews of over 2,700 commercially-available testing instruments in diverse areas such as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Full-text database for journals in psychology; coverage from 1985 to the present.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Find journal articles in subject areas of sports & sports medicine; contains full text coverage for many of the most used journals, dating back to 1985.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Search for articles in all the social sciences. Select subject-specific databases for more focused searches.
Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Periodical article abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content pertaining to the many fields of communication studies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search older full text articles from scholarly journals in more than 25 academic disciplines published between the 19th and 21st centuries.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Search for scholarly articles in any subject area; lots of full-text articles available.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Find periodical and newspaper articles in all major subject areas, including Business, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as the Humanities and Fine Arts.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Indexing and abstracts for journal articles in all areas of psychology including educational psychology, plus indexing for many books and book chapters.

Staying Current: Search Alerts

One way to keep up with new research on your topic -- or a favorite professional journal -- is to create an alert within a database, such as EBSCO's Education Source. This way, you'll get an email when new articles are added to the database.

Look for the Share button in EBSCO and the Save search/alert link in ProQuest. Select how often you want the database to check for new materials and how long you want to receive updates for up to one year. Slick, huh?!

Books: Print & Digital

Looking for ebooks? Search the Library catalog for your subject then limit your search to ebooks, or search one of the ebook subscription databases available through the Doane Library.

EBSCO eBooks This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Subject coverage
Business & economics
Computers & IT
Education
Engineering & technology
History & political science
Humanities
Interdisciplinary & area studies
Language, literature & linguistics
Law, international relations & public policy
Life sciences
Medical
Nursing & allied health
Physical sciences
Psychology & social work
Religion, philosophy & classics
Sociology & anthropology

Research Methods Books

These are just a few of the reference books about education research the Library has available. Use the catalog to find others.

Educational Research and Evaluation by Salem Press Editors
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780824213817
Publication Date: 2014
The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research by Patricia Leavy (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780199811823
Publication Date: 2014
Handbook of Quantitative Methods for Educational Research by Timothy Teo (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9789462094048
Publication Date: 2014
The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (Editor); R. Burke Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780199933624
Publication Date: 2015
Conducting Educational Research by Bruce W. Tuckman; Brian E. Harper
Call Number: LB1028 .T8 2012 (also in ebook)
ISBN: 9781442209633
Publication Date: 2012

Dissertations & Theses

Want to see what other doctoral or masters students have written on your topic? This database will help you locate the majority of existing dissertations and theses.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Search for dissertations and theses from around the world, from 1743 to the present day. Full text is available for all graduate works added since 1997, plus selected works written prior to 1997.