Subject Guide: Education: Subject Databases

A complete bibliography of educational materials available since 1966. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, standards and guidelines on all aspects of education. Indexes published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education).

British Education Index (BEI) is the database equivalent of the printed British Education Index (BEI) and the microfiche British Education Theses Index (BETI). BEI contains the subject descriptions of, and bibliographic references to, significant journal literature relating to education and the teaching of curricular subjects while BETI similarly indexes thesis literature.

Indexes and abstracts articles from 528 periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. Articles from books relating to education published after 1995 are also indexed. Subject coverage includes: preschool, elementary, secondary, and higher education; special and vocational education; comparative and multicultural education; adult and continuing education; computer technology; teacher education, evaluation, and methods; school administration and parent-teacher relations; and issues such as government funding and prayer in the schools.

Abstracts covering areas related to educational administration, educational leadership, educational management, educational research. The index contains 60,000 records, selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Educational Administration Quarterly, Review of Higher Education, Journal of Educational Administration, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1966.-- publishers website.

Bibliographic database compiled by the London School of Economics and Political Science. IBSS includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books included each year. The database covers the references in the print publications "International bibliography of anthropology", "International bibliography of economics", "International bibliography of political science" and "International bibliography of sociology".

A large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus has journal coverage in many subjects across the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

ISI Web of Science is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of education ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century.