LibGuides: Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations (EPFE, EPS, LEBM, LEEA): Home

Recommended Databases for LEPF

ERIC and Education Source (EBSCO)
Find articles from two of the largest collections of education research in the world.
PsycInfo (ProQuest)
Over 4 million indexes, journal articles, chapters in books and entire books on psychology and related fields compiled by the American Psychological Association. Coverage: 1887-present.

PsycINFO, PsycArticles, and ERIC (ProQuest)
Find articles from three large collections of psychological science and education research.
Cabells
Cabells is a helpful source for journal information, evaluation metrics, and submission details for universities and its scholars
Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Additional Databases for LEPF

Education Resources

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Education
With Oxford Bibliographies in Education, students and scholars now have a reliable, selective, and authoritative guide to the best literature in the field.
Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)
Specialized information for librarians, teachers, and education researchers.

Social Science Resources

Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Includes indexes and abstracts for articles in sociology and related disciplines in 20,000 journals in 30 different languages. Doctoral dissertations and book reviews are also included. Includes some full text. Coverage is 1963 to the present.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCO)
Contains full-text information about commercially available psychological tests including: test name, test author(s), date of publication, reviewers, scores, publisher and acronyms. Doesn’t include actual test instruments. Coverage: 1985 - present

Interdisciplinary Resources

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
JSTOR
An online, full-text archive of complete backfiles of scholarly periodical literature since 1872. Journals are intended to be archival, not current; most are 2-5 years behind the current issues, depending on the journal. Full Text.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
ProQuest Digital Dissertations-- Provides bibliographic citations, and full-text access for doctoral dissertations and master's thesis completed at over 1,000 accredited colleges and universities worldwide.

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