Research Guides: T&L 549 Doctoral Seminar: Searching Databases for Journals

Key Databases

Education Databases
A list of top education databases at Chester Fritz Library
Teacher Reference Center
Index of journals for teachers and administrators

Discipline-Specific Databases

HeinOnline
Includes multidisciplinary and legal journals, essential government documents, state & federal case law, and international resources. Contact the Law Library if you need an alternative accessibility plan.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
IEEE journals and conference proceedings in aerospace, electrical engineering, computer science, and other technologies.
PsycINFO (APA)
Abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health. Includes full text articles from journals published by the APA and other top psychology journals.
SocINDEX with Full Text
A comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
SPORTDiscus
Sports, physical education, sports medicine, exercise physiology, recreation, leisure studies, and tourism.

Other Databases to Try

Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Elsevier ScienceDirect
Full-text access to journals published by Elsevier Science.
Gale Academic OneFile Select
Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspaper content covering all disciplines.
JSTOR
A trusted archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
Sage Journals Online
Full-text of articles is available for journals 1999 to present.
SpringerLink
Journals, books, series, and protocols in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.
Wiley Online Library
Delivers 1400 Wiley-Blackwell journals, and more than 6000 online books, reference works, databases, protocols and other electronic resources through one integrated service.

Selection of Education Journals

This list is just some of the top journals. To see if the Library subscribes to one not shown here, you can either

Look in the database lists above
Go the the Library homepage
- type the journal name in the search bar
- before clicking on Search, use the drop-down that appears to select Journal Titles
- click on Search
- If we have access to the journal, the title will appear with links to where the issue can be accessed.
- Pro-tip: You can select either contains or starts with to see what journals we have if you're using keywords such as education. To limit to only show peer-reviewed journals, select Peer reviewed journals only.

American Educator
American Educator publishes articles on a wide range of topics, including new trends in education, politics, well-researched news features on current problems in education, education law, professional ethics, and thoughtful or thought-provoking essays that explore current social issues relevant to American society.
Childhood Education
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Education Policy Analysis Archives is a peer-reviewed, open-access, international, multilingual, and multidisciplinary journal designed for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and development analysts concerned with education policies.
Education Statistics Quarterly
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) fulfills a congressional mandate to collect and report statistics and information showing the condition and progress of education in the United States and other nations in order to promote and accelerate the improvement of American education.
Education Week
Education Week is an award-winning independent news organization that has covered K-12 education since 1981. It is known for providing both news and analysis, along with explanatory and investigative journalism.
Journal of Research on Leadership Education
The Journal of Research on Leadership Education electronic peer-reviewed journal that provides an international venue for scholarship and discourse on the teaching and learning of leadership across the many disciplines that inform the field of educational leadership.
School Administrator
School Administrator provides perspectives and collegial advice on a broad range of topics specific to K-12 education and the leadership of public school districts. Enter the journal title in the search box and choose "journal title" in the All Fields drop down.