Subject Guide: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Applied Linguistics: Subject Databases

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.

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.

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 Indexes published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education).

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".

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

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.

China Academic Journals database covers most humanities and social science academic journals published in mainland China (Hong Kong and Taiwan are not included) since 1994. Although most articles are in Chinese, the title and abstracts are also in English and are searchable. Full-text electronic versions of 5,300 Chinese academic periodicals in 9 series: science-engineering (A-C), agriculture, medicine/hygiene, literature/history/philosophy, economics/politics/law, education/social science, and electronics/information science. The database includes current issues as well as archives of back issues of journals, and is reproduced with original pagination.

The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. There are now over 500 journals in the directory.

"The Directory of Open Access Books (www.doabooks.org), is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide the metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. These metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. At the start of the service there are just over 20 publishers participating with about 750 Open Access books and new publishers and books will be added [progressively]..."--Press release, The Hague, April 12, 2012.