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Qualifying Experience: Individual Databases

Comparison of Databases

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Education Source

  • Full text for more than 2,000 journals
  • Indexing and abstracts for nearly 3,600 journals
  • Full text for more than 530 books and monographs
  • Full text for more than 2,300 education-related conference papers
  • Citations for nearly 4 million articles, including book reviews
  • Coverage dating back to 1880

  • Links to nearly 750,000 full-text documents
  • Indexing and abstracts for more than 1100 journals
  • Indexing and abstracts for resources from more than 800 non-journal sources
  • An education-specific thesaurus containing over 11,700 terms
  • More than 1.6 million records
  • Coverage dating back to 1966

Professional Development Collection

  • 470 full-text journals
  • Nearly 300 peer-reviewed, full-text journals
  • More than 750 abstracted and indexed journals
  • More than 530 peer-reviewed, abstracted and indexed journals
  • Nearly 230 educational reports
  • Records dating back to 1930

Educational Administration Abstracts

  • No Full Text journals
  • Covers 252 journals, 32 magazines and 35 books
  • More than 150,000 records
  • Records dating back to 1965

Education Databases

Databases for Students

Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

  • Nearly 6,600 active full-text journals and magazines
  • 17,133 indexed and abstracted journals and magazines, 363 books 27 newspapers inc New York Times and Wall Street J
  • Records dating back to 1911.

Why Search One Database at a time?

 

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Why Search One Database at a Time When You Can Search Everything at Once?

  1. You may miss some important articles if you search everything at once
  2. You will have less articles to sift through 
  3. Individual Databases have extra features not available in Search Everything

Searching Tip

When doing research in databases, you often need to perform several searches trying different combinations of terms before coming up with a list of good results.

Other Databases

JSTOR

JSTOR

  • Many different journal titles.
  • For each journal title, coverage begins with volume 1
  • Coverage ends about 3-5 years before the present
  • every article available Full-Text