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Education: Articles and Databases

Links to the best library resources for Education at Northern Illinois University

Best Education Databases

Additional Databases for Education

Background Information

Books and eBooks

Dissertations

Interdisciplinary Databases

Behavior analysis and special education

Newspapers

Journal Information-choose a journal to publish in

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ERIC Video Tutorials

Introduction to ERIC (3:47)

Advanced Searching in ERIC (4:12)

Database Search Tips

infographic of tips as described below

ALT Text: A search for “blended learning” will contain results with blended and learning beside each other. A search for wom?n will include results like woman, women, and womyn. A search for academ* will contain results with different endings like academic, academics, academy. A search for creative N2 thinking will include test with creative and thinking within 2 words of each other.

Google Scholar Search Tips

      

ALT Text: In Google Scholar, default search looks for keywords in the citation, abstract, and full text, if available. Use a minus immediately before a search term you want to exclude from your results. Typing “intitle” and a colon before a word will find results with your search term in the title. Typing “author” and a colon before a name will find results with your search term as the author. Typing quotation marks around a phrase will find results for an exact phrase. Try selecting “Advanced Search” from the pull down menu in Google Scholar.