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This is a guide to selected sources of information related to literature in education available at URI and online. To find additional information, conduct a subject search in the URI Libraries Search for terms such as EDUCATION UNITED STATES, EDUCATORS, OR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION.
Similar searches in Article Databases such as Education Full Text (EBSCOhost), ERIC, or Teacher Reference Center will locate articles.
- URI Libraries SearchLocate books, videos, online resources and more available through the URI Libraries.
Best Databases for Education
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Citations to and abstracts of journals and other materials in education. Updated monthly.
- What dates are covered? 1966 - Present.
- ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Citations to and abstracts of journals and other materials in education, including teacher education, testing, measurement, and evaluation. Updated monthly.
- What dates are covered? 1966 - Present.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
- What's included? Reports researched and written by journalists, on a variety of current topics. Reports include an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
- What dates are covered? 1923-. Updated weekly.
- Teacher Reference Center (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Provides citations and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
- EBSCOhost Ebook Subscription K-8 Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Collection of e-books designed to support a quality learning experience for K-8 students across all academic subjects from History, to Language and Literature, to Science & Technology. Contains over 15,000 titles.
- What else should I know? This database is provided to the URI community by the School of Education.
Education - Articles & Databases
Please note: These databases require that you log in with your URI credentials.
- EZproxy InformationThis page provides details on logging in to URI-subscribed databases, journals, and more.
- Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Indexing of over 800 periodicals in education.
- What dates are covered? 1929 - 1983
- ERIC (AccessERIC) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Main site of the Educational Resources Information Center. Provides information on ERIC products, services, contacts, and Clearinghouses. Users should note that ERIC Digests, offered on this site, are NOT the same as ERIC Documents.
- What dates are covered? 1966 - Present.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Citations to and abstracts of journals and other materials in education. Updated monthly.
- What dates are covered? 1966 - Present.
- ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Citations to and abstracts of journals and other materials in education, including teacher education, testing, measurement, and evaluation. Updated monthly.
- What dates are covered? 1966 - Present.
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to a vast archive of datasets in social sciences and related areas. Data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata, may be downloaded.
- What else should I know? While accessible from anywhere, users must initially create an account while on campus, and must access the database from on-campus at least once every six months.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Full text of back runs of core scholarly journals in many disciplines, scholarly e-books, and primary source archival materials.
- What else should I know? Many journals in JSTOR have an embargo (called the "Moving Wall") on their most recent articles, generally ranging from 3-5 years. Other databases will provide more current results.
- LearningExpress Library This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Resources to enhance school, work, or life proficiencies. Includes practice tests for the PSAT, SAT, ACT, TOEFL, GMAT, LCAT, MCAT, PCAT, GRE, GED and other standardized tests. Career resources include eBooks and eTests, resources for professional licensing exams, and other adult education materials.
- What else should I know? Access provided by AskRI.
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? More than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
- What dates are covered? Mid-1960's - Present.
- MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.
- What’s included? Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.
- Sports Medicine & Education Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Citations and selected abstracting of journals, reports, conference proceedings, and trade and popular magazines in the field of physical education, physical fitness, health, and sports medicine. Updated monthly.
- What dates are covered? 1970 - Present.
- Primary Search (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Full text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also provided for over 100 pamphlets, and indexing and abstracts are offered for almost 100 additional magazines. Updated daily.
- What dates are covered? 1990 - Present.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
- Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize article and literature use. Includes journal articles, books, book series, conference papers, and more. Alternative to Web of Science. Indexes close to 35,000 titles.
- What’s included? Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize article and literature use. Includes journal articles, books, book series, conference papers, and more. Alternative to Web of Science. Indexes close to 35,000 titles.
- ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? A collection of journals from the publisher Elsevier and its affiliates. Journals may be browsed or searched by keyword. Access to the full content of articles from selected journals is available to URI users. Availability is indicated by a green icon. Other articles may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
- What dates are covered? 1995 - Present.
- What’s included? A collection of journals from the publisher Elsevier and its affiliates. Journals may be browsed or searched by keyword. Access to the full content of articles from selected journals is available to URI users. Availability is indicated by a green icon. Other articles may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
- Teacher Reference Center (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Provides citations and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
- TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Resource for educators about children's and young adult books, including author and illustrator interviews, lesson plans, and other enrichment content. Create an Educator Login using your uri.edu email address in order to share resources and access with students, create custom reading lists, save custom lesson plans, use text complexity analysis.
- What else should I know? This database is provided to the URI community by the School of Education.
Databases for Children
- Primary Search (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Full text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also provided for over 100 pamphlets, and indexing and abstracts are offered for almost 100 additional magazines. Updated daily.
- What dates are covered? 1990 - Present.
- MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.
- What’s included? Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.
Created/Updated:
Created by Mona Anne Niedbala, 2009
Revised by Mona Anne Niedbala, 2013
Revised by Kelly LeMeur 2016