The following databases are the top three most used by Education students. If you are new to Education research, it is highly recommended that you begin with ERIC.
Subjects: Education
Description: Research database from EBSCOhost containing full text. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Magazines; ERIC Documents; Reports
Subjects: Psychology, Education, Sociology
Description: Research database from EBSCOhost containing full text. Includes materials from 1800s-present about psychology.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Book Chapters; Dissertations
Subjects: Education
Description: Research database from EBSCOhost containing full text.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Magazines; Trade/Professional Articles; Book Reviews
Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from ProQuest containing the full text of dissertations and theses from around the world.
Contents: Dissertations
Subjects: MANY
Description: Using OneSearch provides simple, one-stop searching for books and e-books, videos, articles, media, and more.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Magazines; Books; E-books
Subjects: MANY
Description: General web search engine of scholarly literature. Google Scholar is a free search engine, so you must configure your Google Scholar Settings to access LMU materials off campus.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Books; Book Reviews; Conference Proceedings
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Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from LexisNexis containing full text from news, business, and legal sources.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Trade/Professional Articles
Subjects: Education
Description: Research database containing children's literature reviews. You can filter by reading level, grade, genre, and award or look at thematic lists.
Contents: Book Reviews
Subjects: Psychology, Education, Sociology
Description: Tests and measures collection from EBSCOhost containing descriptions and reviews of educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence tests.
Contents: Test Reviews
Subjects: Political Science, Economics, Education, Sociology
Description: Data collection containing voter opinion and behavior, census data, education statistics, and public health. For off-campus access, users should create a MyData account from an on-campus computer. Once created, this authorizes the account for 6 months of access from on or off campus.
Contents: Statistics / Datasets; Statistics - U.S. Census
Subjects: English, Humanities, and Modern Languages
Description: Research database from ProQuest containing indexes of international literature focused on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Book Reviews; Primary Sources
Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from SAGE Publications containing full text. It includes books, journals, reference materials, handbooks, datasets, cases, and videos about qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; E-books; Streaming Video; Statistics / Datasets
Subjects: Education
Description: Streaming video collection from Alexander Street Press containing teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
Contents: Streaming Video
Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from SAGE Publications containing full text. It includes books, journals, reference materials, handbooks, datasets, cases, and videos about qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; E-books; Streaming Video; Statistics / Datasets
Subjects: Psychology, Education, Marital and Family Therapy
Description: Streaming video collection from Alexander Street Press containing therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals.
Contents: Streaming Video
Subjects: Psychology, Sociology
Description: Streaming video collection containing videos in the fields of psychotherapy, counseling, and social work. The videos on this platform include interviews with master psychotherapists, clinical demonstrations, recordings of real sessions, nonverbal observation, as well as, in-depth commentaries.
Contents: Streaming Video
Subjects: Health and Human Sciences, Psychology
Description: Steaming video collection containing mental health education and training films.
Contents: Streaming Video
Subjects: MANY
Description: General streaming video collection of documentaries, educational films, training films, and theatrical releases. Access may be restricted and require library assistance to view.
Contents: Streaming Video
Subjects: MANY
Description: General streaming video collection. If using Swank Digital Campus from off-campus, your LMU account information may be required. Includes course related, theatrically released films streamed for on and off-campus use.
Contents: Streaming Video