ResearchGuides: Education: Databases

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Oxford Research Encycpopedia of Education

Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education combines the speed and flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education is part of the larger online Oxford Research Encyclopedia, a dynamic digital encyclopedia continuously updated by the world’s leading scholars and researchers.

Core Databases

Education

ERIC (ProQuest)
Contains journal articles and other publications covering education-related scholarly literature. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

A guide on how to search ERIC

Craft science

ARTbibliographies Modern (ProQuest)

Contains abstracts of periodical articles, books, exhibition catalogues, and dissertations covering all aspects of art in the twentieth century.

DAAI Design and Applied Arts Index (Proquest)

International bibliographic database of design and applied arts. It contains records from journals and newspapers. In addition to book, video, and exhibition reviews DAAI also provides information on designers, craftspeople, studios, and firms.

Home economics

CAB Abstracts (Ovid)

A database covering international issues in agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines in the life sciences. VetCD and BeastCD included.

Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Multi-disciplinary full-text database of scholarly journals. In addition to full text, the database offers indexing and abstracts for journals and other publications in a variety of disciplines. Searches on educational topics yield quite a lot of results.

ProQuest Databases Contains several databases in several subject areas. Searches can be carried out for one or multiple databases at once.

Scopus
Multi-disciplinary citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus also features tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

More Databases

PsycINFO (Ovid) / American Psychological Association APA
An bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Sage Research Methods Online
SRMO is a research methods tool, linking SAGE's renowned research methods content with sophisticated search tools.
The site contains over 500 SAGE books (including f.i. series Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Introducing Qualitative Methods ja Qualitative Methods), dictionaries, encyclopedias and journal articles.
ScienceDirect / Elsevier
Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature. Multidisciplinary database offering access to peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and reference books. Worth of trying if you have an education-related search topic.
SpringerLink / Springer
Multidisciplinary database including psychology and education. SpringerLink offers electronic and printed literature from Springer-Verlag - articles, books, chapters, reference work entries.
Wiley Online Library / Wiley
Wiley is the international scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. Wiley Online Library hosts multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Statistics

Finnish Databases

Finna

voit hakea kotimaisia tieteellisten lehtien, ammattilehtien, aikakauslehtien sekä kokoomateosten artikkeleita
kun olet kirjoittanut hakusanat perushakuun/tarkennettuun hakuun rajaa hakutuloksesta (vasemmalta) aineistotyypiksi artikkelit

Kotimaiset artikkeliviitteet (ent. Arto-tietokanta):

Kotimaiset artikkeliviitteet löytyvät Kansalliskirjaston hakupalvelusta (erillinen välilehti)
Arto-aineisto Finna.fi:ssä

Citation Databases

Scopus
Multi-disciplinary citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus also features tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Web of Science Core Collection
Citation databases of peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings covering sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes tools to track, analyze and visualize research.