Lewis & Clark Libraries: Education: Databases

Key Databases for Education

Education Source This link opens in a new window
Education Source provides full text, indexing and abstracts for thousands of education journals, books and education-related conference papers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a product of the U.S. Department of Education, and provides access to education journals and related documents.
Ebsco's ERIC can be searched in combination with Education Research Complete and Educational Administration Abstracts. The ERIC Collection, began in 1966, contains records for a variety of publication types, including: journal articles books research syntheses conference papers technical reports dissertations policy papers, and other education-related materials
Primo This link opens in a new window
Primo is the library's search engine for books at Watzek Library and at Pacific Northwest Academic Libraries via the Summit delivery system. It also contains audiovisual materials like DVDs and CDs as well as journal articles and ebooks.
Educators Reference Complete This link opens in a new window
A selection of full text academic journals, reports, and reference sources.
Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals.
This collection offers information on everything from children_s health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for nearly 800 journals. Examples of titles offered in Professional Development Collection include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.

Additional Databases for Education

Dissertations & Theses This link opens in a new window
Link to abstracts or citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, from 1861 to the present day. Also includes full text of dissertations and theses produced by graduate students at Lewis & Clark.
Dissertations & Theses at Lewis & Clark College This link opens in a new window
This database gives access to the dissertations and theses produced by students at Lewis & Clark College Graduate School of Education and Counseling.
PsycNET This link opens in a new window
The premier database for psychology. Single search interface for PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, and PsycTHERAPY streaming video.
PsycINFO is a bibliographic database of scholarly literature from a variety of publishers, covering over 2,500 journals in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences; coverage includes journals, books, book chapters, reviews, and dissertations. PsycARTICLES provides fulltext coverage of journals published by APA, Canadian Psychological Association, Hogrefe Publishing Group, and the Educational Publishing Foundation. PsycTHERAPY is a database of streaming psychotherapy demonstrations featuring some of the most renowned therapists in North America working with participants on a host of therapeutic topics.
SocINDEX with full text This link opens in a new window
Coverage from all sub-disciplines of sociology.

K-12 Databases

Gale in Context: Elementary
An educational product for today's young learners featuring age-appropriate content covering a broad range of educational topics.
Gale in Context: Middle School
Combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and more. Middle School students will find outstanding support to complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history.
Gale Onefile: High School Edition
Provides high school students with access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference content. Offers audience-appropriate information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.
National Geographic Kids
Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they've never seen it before. Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.
OSLIS (Oregon School Library Information System)
OSLIS is a K-12 website providing access to quality licensed databases within an information literacy framework. It is designed for Oregon students and teachers, maintaining the school library at the heart of student research. OSLIS is a partnership between the Oregon Association of School Libraries (OASL) and the State Library of Oregon (SLO).

Education Librarian

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