Highlighted Databases: English Education

With a focus on emerging forms of reading,  writing, speaking, and listening, English Education embraces critical approaches to literature, cultural perspectives and contexts, and multiple levels of education. Resources in the field of English Language Arts are highlighted in July to complement current College and library offerings, from the academic program and Literacy Unbound to the latest Everett Cafe book display.

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 (CU), 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.

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database holds the largest collection of children's and young adult book reviews in the reviewing industry.

Dissertations and Theses Global is a searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations.

e-Book Collection (EBSCO) provides access to more than 2.4 million e-books, including 300,000+ DRM-free titles.

Education Full Text 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.

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research dating back to 1966. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education, and a wide variety of material, such as conference proceedings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and monographs, in Resources in Education. ERIC is available via Ebsco, Proquest, and the government site.

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.

National Council of Teachers of English Journals is an open access collection of peer-reviewed NCTE publications covers research, classroom strategies, and fresh ideas for educators at all levels

Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles and contains more than 200 educational reports.

ProQuest 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.

TeachingBooks comprises “263,909 (and counting) resources about children’s and young adult books, including print and media resources for children and teens and in-depth information and analysis for educators and adults.”

Also be sure to check out additional resources in the English Education Research Guide; Literacy Specialist Research Guide; and Children's Literature.