Highlighted Databases: Mentoring

A mentor is an experienced and trusted advisor -- and key to education. January is known as National Mentoring Month whose history dates back to 2002 when President George Bush endorsed the campaign for youth in coordination with Harvard School of Public Health, MENTOR, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. In 2023 President Joseph Biden issued a Proclamation on mentoring, informative of its significance to many walks of life and its value in teaching and learning.

Explore the resources below which cover the topic from a variety of perspectives.

APA PsycNET is the single search interface for PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycEXTRA. It is the only search platform designed specifically to deliver APA content.

Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals. See also Academic Search Complete, a scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.

Ebook Central - Academic Complete provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information.

ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related periodical literature. ERIC (which stands for Educational Resources Information Center) provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and monographs. In addition to this version, made available via the ProQuest platform, ERIC is also accessible via the U.S. government ERIC site and through Ebsco ERIC.

Education Full Text (Wilson) provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Indexing coverage begins June 1983; abstracts are included beginning spring 1994; full text of some journals is available beginning in January 1996.

Education Index Retrospective provides cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals and yearbooks; coverage from 1929 through mid-1983.

Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.

Education Week is an independent news organization that has covered K–12 education since 1981. Subscription includes access to the full archive, as well as Teacher, Digital Directions, Market Brief, Top School Jobs, and blog channels. It enhances holdings beyond Education Week’s print offerings available through some of our online databases. Try a search for "mentoring" and see thousands of entries including articles, blogs, jobs, news, and opinion pieces!

JSTOR is an online archive of over 1,200 leading scholarly journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles. The most recently published issues (the past 3-5 years) are generally not available through JSTOR, though they usually are through other e-sources.

Professional Development Collection is designed for professional educators, this database provides access to a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. The database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

PsycINFO covers the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

ProQuest provides broad multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly journals, newspapers, dissertations, and other types of publications; for international coverage and access to full texts of dissertations only, search ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, a subset of ProQuest.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress, and the database of record for graduate research. Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day, together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

 Taylor and Francis Education Collection provides access to over 385,000 journal articles and the contents of 270 education-related Taylor & Francis journals. 

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