EDUCATION DATABASES

Type of access:    Free to the public        Faculty, staff, and students only


Academic Search Complete - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1965 - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco] 
This database is designed specifically for academic institutions. It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 5,500 scholarly periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 9,500 journals in the collection.

Article 1st - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1990 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: OCLC] 
This is an index of articles from the contents page of journals. It contains over 16,000 sources and over 23 million records covering business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology subjects.

Education-Line - [Contents: full text | Coverage: Most recent edition | Updates: regularly | Provider: University of Leeds] 
A freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.

ERIC - [Contents: citations & limited full text| Coverage: 1966-present | Updates: varies | Provider: EBSCO] 
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. It contains more than 1, 194,000 records and links to over 100,000 full-text documents.

Google Scholar - [Contents: citations & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Google] 
Google Scholar allows users to search across multiply resources in one search engine. It contains scholarly information from books, journals, reviewed papers, scholarly organizations and repositories, academic publishers and much more. Google scholar automatically links to full-text articles that are in the OLLU library collection.

Research Starters (Education) - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: EBSCOhost] 
This database consists of comprehensive articles that are each about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, and scholarly experts. These articles are designed to be starting points containing topic overviews, definitions, and detailed biographies along with links to top articles in relevant EBSCOhost databases. This database is also meant to supplement textbooks and other materials.
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