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Education Resource Guide

Finding Journal Articles

The Library catalogue, NEWCAT, only allows you to search for the names of journals held by the Library, not the articles that appear within the journals. To find articles have been written on a particular topic, you need to search in a database or use a printed abstract or index.

Indexing & abstracting services provide access to articles published in journals, and some also index other publications such as conference papers, reports, patents or chapters in books. Most are available online via the Internet, but some are only available in print formats. A number of the online databases to which the Library subscribes include full text articles.

The Library does not hold or have online access to all the journals indexed in these databases. Some databases include the Library's holdings, but others do not. For articles found in those databases, you must search the Library catalogue to find if the Library has these journal titles.

Online Databases

This is a list of online databases useful for research in Education. A complete list of all databases available online is available on the Library's Journal & Reference Databases page.

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Title	Coverage
AEI Australian Education Index 1978+	Covers education and the related fields of: curriculum, educational research, information science, librarianship, management, policy administration, teaching and training.
ANZ Newstand	Fulltext of major Australian and New Zealand newspapers. Includes regional and rural radio transcripts and news from current affairs television programs such as the ABC 7.30 Report. 2001+
AUSTROM Australian Social Sciences Databases	AUSTROM is a collection of indexes to journal articles, newspapers, reports,books and conference papers on Australian subjects.
Austlit	Creative literature: poems, plays, novels, short stories; - Criticism: books and articles; - Reviews of Australian literature and of literary aspects of stage, film and sound productions; - Awards, prizes and grants; - Publishing and distribution of Australian literature; and - Creative literature translated by Australians.
Blackwell Synergy coverage varies with each publication	Blackwell Synergy provides full text access to over 600 scholarly and professional journals. Subject coverage is multidisciplinary.
British Education Index	The Index provides details about the contents of various literature sources: over 300 education and training journals published in the British Isles, similar report and conference literature, and texts in the Education-line collection. Particular strengths include aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs.
CUDOS Commonwealth Universities Database Online Service	Commonwealth Universities Database Online is an online database containing higher education data from member institutions in 36 countries developed by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).
Current Contents 1993	Current Contents provides online access to the contents pages of approximately 7,000 science, social sciences, arts and humanities journals. It gives bibliographic information for the journal contents, including articles, reviews, letters, notes and editorials. Abstracts are available for about 70% of articles.
Education Journals (Proquest) 1988+	Education Journals (Proquest) contains more than 550 titles on education–including primary, secondary, and university-level topics–with nearly 300 in full text.
Education Research Theses	Comprehensive source of the unique research found in doctoral and masters research theses accepted by all Australian universities in the field of education
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center 1966+ ERIC via Proquest (for faster downloads)	The ERIC database incorporates two separate collections - education journals and education documents which provide coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Coverage includes all aspects of education from early childhood to adult and vocational education. All education documents (EDs) since 1983 are held on microfiche in the Auchmuty Library, and from 1996 are available fulltext online. These documents are linked from within the database.
Expanded Academic Index ASAP, International Edition 1980+	Expanded Academic ASAP gives access to 3000 journal titles with more than 1900 in fulltext. Areas covered include:- arts, education, history, literature, popular science psychology, economics and cultural studies and engineering.
Factiiva: We no longer subscribe to this database. Please use ANZ Newstand or Newsbank.
Ingenta Coverage varies with indexing for each journal title.	Ingenta disseminates multidisciplinary research material for societies and publishers of scholarly information. Note: Our subscription does not provide access to all the fulltext material available from the service.
JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive	JSTOR provides online fulltext access to cross searchable archives of core scholarly journals published in the arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences, music, business, mathematics and statistics. The purpose of this collection is to make complete runs of important journals available. By agreement with participating publishers there is a 2-5 year gap between the date of the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR. The only exception applies to titles also held in Project Muse.
Kluwer Online Journals (Please use Springerlink below)	Kluwer Online Journals provides access to the complete tables of content, abstracts and full-text articles from more than 650 journals, published in the fields of humanities & social sciences, environmental & plant sciences, physical sciences, behavioural sciences, engineering & computer sciences and biosciences.
LLBA - Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts 1973+	This database indexes and abstracts international literature selected from 2000 journals relating to linguistics, language and communication from all disciplines including medicine, psychology, the arts and communication, learning disabilities and special education.
Mega File Premier Coverage varies with each publciation	EBSCO's Mega File Premier Collection contains 19 multidisciplinary databases. Most databases contain full text articles and many peer reviewed titles are included.
Mental Measurements Yearbook Coverage: text of the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Mental Measurements Yearbooks	Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. The full text for each record includes an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test.
netLibrary	netLibrary is an online collection of ebooks and reference materials. The netLibrary collection is made up of eBooks owned by the University of Newcastle, eBooks shared with other Australian university libraries and over 3000 freely available history and literature eBooks.
Newsbank	Complete full-text content of more than 160 Australian local, regional, and national newspapers, as well as approximately 100 international newspapers. Coverage varies from title to title.
Observatory on Borderless Higher Education	This resource scans higher education literature and retrieves information relating to issues and developments in 'borderless education". Borderless education is defined as education related activities and developments that cross the "borders" of traditional education such as e-learning, international collaboration and developing markets.
Project Muse	Project Muse Full Database is an initiative enabling worldwide networked access to the full text of the scholarly journals from the following publishers: Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Duke University Press, Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Texas Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press.
ProQuest ANZ Newsstand 2001+	This database accesses the full text of major Australian and New Zealand newspapers. It includes regional and rural radio transcripts and news from current affairs television programs such as the ABC 7.30 Report.
PsycInfo Coverage 1872 - present, updated monthly	The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. PsycINFO's coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language (dissertations also).
ScienceDirect Coverage varies	Full text access to articles in over 1500 scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals.
Scopus 1966+	Scopus is a multidisciplinary database indexing 13, 450 peer reviewed titles in health, sciences, engineering, social sciences, psychology, and economics. It has access to over 25 million abstracts with coverage dating back to 1966, links to full text are available where subscriptions exist.
Sociological Abstracts 1963 +	Sociological Abstracts is an online international resource for researchers, professionals and students in sociology and related disciplines. Subject coverage includes activism and action research, gerontology, case work, media, community organisation, policy sciences, demographics, political science, family studies, social security programs, feminist studies, sociology.
Source Online	The Source Online is a subject guide to children's literature.The Source combines three linked databases: a database of picture books, children's and young adult novels searchable by subject, author, title, genre and age, a database of the poems which appear in the anthologies indexed, including the full texts of over 3000 poems which can be searched by subject, author, title, genre, and first line, and a database of the winners and shortlisted books for over 40 Australian and international children's literature awards, searchable by author, title, award and year of award.
SPORT Discus 1830+	SPORT Discus is an international database containing sport and fitness literature, which identifies both practical and research literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics.
Springerlink (formerly Kluwer Online Journals)	SpringerLink provides access to more than 400 full text, peer reviewed online journals available from the publishers Springer Verlag, Brill & Kluwer and Kluwer.
Taylor and Francis Online Journals coverage varies with each publication, mostly 2000+	The Taylor and Francis online journal collection contains more than 1000 full text online journals published across a wide range of subjects.

The Library does not hold all the journals indexed by these commercial providers.

Print Indexes

Print indexes are shelved in the Reference Collection, and are useful for finding older material in particular. However, some indexes are only available in print format.

Title

Coverage

BEI - British Education Index
Huxley Library J016.3705/B1
2002+

Earlier Indexes, 1954-1995; 1998-2001 are held in Auchmuty Black Stack. Click here for online access.

Lists and analyses the subject content of all articles of permanent educational interest appearing in English language education and training periodicals published in the British Isles, together with certain internationally published periodicals in the field.