Research Guides: Education Masters: Searching and finding

Finding Scholarly Articles

Watch this video to hear tips from Linds, the education librarian. Use the Education Subject Guide, listed below, as your portal to more recommendations and tools.

Education Research Guide
A full guide that details all the best Education resources from CU Boulder Libraries.

Core Databases

ERIC (Proquest)
The U.S. Department of Education sponsors this comprehensive database of education literature. This version through ProQuest provides full text access to many more articles than the free eric.ed.gov.
Education Full Text (EBSCO)
Covers special education, educational tests, adult education, multicultural education, teaching methods, and more. Includes the following collections: Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 (H.W. Wilson)
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies
This resource provides systematic and comprehensive coverage of education and childhood studies around the world.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Covers psychology and psychological aspects of education, learning, cognition, and many related disciplines.
National Center for Education Statistics
Statistics and data related to education, schooling, and assessment in the U.S., from early childhood to higher education.
Social Explorer
Statistics about people, social characteristics, and the economy of the U.S., with Census data from 1790 to the present.
ERIC
This freely available version of ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and serves as a clearinghouse for published and grey literature related to Education and related disciplines.
Education (Oxford Bibliographies Online)
This fantastic resource will suggest major briefs, reports, scholarly studies, and books for big-picture concepts, such as "tracking and de-tracking" or "inclusive education". This is a great place to become familiar with a new topic!

Sage Education Journals
SAGE Education Journals has major publications from AERA and many more!

Having trouble getting to Sage Journals? Try this guide to browser extensions to resolve the issue or use VPN.

Bilingual and Multilingual Education

ERIC (Proquest)
The U.S. Department of Education sponsors this comprehensive database of education literature.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (ProQuest)
Includes descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics.

Databases for K-12 Students

Explora Elementary School (EBSCO)
Database designed for children in grades K-5.
Explora Middle School (EBSCO)
Database designed for middle school students.
Explora High School (EBSCO)
Database designed for high school students.
Explora General Research (EBSCO)
Database designed for general research.

Popular Magazines

Tone:	Casual and accessible
Purpose:	Inform, entertain
Form:	Attractive, digital, print
Authors:	Staff writers or journalists
Review:	Approval by editor
Audience:	Broad general audience
Content:	News, opinion, short articles

Academic Books

Tone:	Formal, may be specialized
Purpose:	Inform
Form:	Digital, print
Authors:	Scholars or specialists
Review:	Approval by editor
Audience:	Academic
Content:	Background, overview, analysis

Academic Journals

Tone:	Formal and specialized
Purpose:	Inform, argue
Form:	Digital or print
Authors:	Scholars
Review:	Peer review
Audience:	Academic
Content:	Research, analysis, 10+pages

Trade Magazines

Tone:	Understandable within profession
Purpose:	Inform
Form:	Digital or print
Authors:	Staff writers or specialists
Review:	Editor; professional associations
Audience:	Targeted practitioners
Content:	Reviews, trends, case studies

Government information

Tone:	Formal
Purpose:	News, Inform
Form:	Digital or print
Authors:	Varies
Review:	Approval by editor
Audience:	Politicians, citizens
Content:	Policy, analysis, legislation

Newspapers

Tone:	Casual and accessible
Purpose:	Inform, entertain
Form:	Digital, print
Authors:	Staff writers or journalists
Review:	Approval by editor
Audience:	Broad general audience
Content:	Current, brief, news, events

Search by Formats

As you research, you will likely use a number of types of information. As you consider your needs, your audiences, and the type of evidence, you may wish to narrow your searching to one type of information. In the next few pages, we'll look at some strategies for locating books and articles. Let's begin with books.

Books

There are several search tools for finding books.

Using OneSearch Advanced functions, you may refine your search by title, author, year, language and much more.

The Library Catalog is the legacy catalog interface for CU collections. Try the advanced functions to refine your search.

The quickest way to receive materials not available at CU. Request materials that are not available, checked-out, or missing. Prospector is a group of Colorado and Wyoming Libraries.

Prospector FAQ

Borrow materials and get scans from libraries around the world. Use WorldCat to find what you’re looking for and request a loan through ILLiad.

Interlibrary Loan FAQ

We recommend starting with Onesearch!

You may also search and locate ebooks through the library system. Simply search and locate the text, follow the links to full text, enter your identikey and begin reading.

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We also have a few e-book collections that are searchable in the following search tools: