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Education Research Databases (Scholarly Article Research)

Most databases are available off campus with your GC username and password. Contact the ITS help desk if you do not know your user name or password (502) 863-4357.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides articles from 1,300 scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Coverage dates are from the very first issue of each journal (the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries for many) and continues to 2 – 5 years prior to the current year (moving wall).

All Library Databases
This is an extensive list of all library databases. Check here for additional resources, if you are not finding what you need in the above databases.

Education Source This link opens in a new window
Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The extensive collection includes full text for more than 1,700 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window
Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Evaluate Article Resources

Unsure of how to tell if a journal article is scholarly/peer-reviewed or popular/trade? Open the file below to see a list of common characteristics of both types of articles.

Scholarly v Popular Articles
Check out this document to get an in-depth list of criteria to evaluate your article resources to determine if the literature is scholarly or popular in nature.

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