NDSU

Libraries —Education

North Dakota State University
Fargo, N.D.

Education Databases and Web Sites

Selected databases and Web sites for the field of education:

  • Education Index starstarstarstarstar
    Education Index (H.W. Wilson Company) is a bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere.
  • ERIC: Education Resources Information Center starstarstarstarstar
    ERIC is a digital library of education-related resources consisting primarily of electronic bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature. The collection includes the full-text of ERIC documents, articles and more. 1966-present.
  • NDSU Library Catalog starstarstarstarstar
  • The Educator’s Reference Desk starstarstarstarstar
    From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk. Includes ERIC, lesson plans, etc.
  • JSTOR starstarstarstarstar
    JSTOR, an acronym for "journal storage," is an archive of important scholarly journal literature. The database contains the full text of many journals from nearly every discipline, including education, back to the 19th century.
  • Project Muse starstarstarstarstar
    Project MUSE covers literature and criticism, history, the visual arts, the performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and other subjects in the humanities and social sciences, 1993-present.
  • TeacherLingo starstarstarstarstar
    An educational community to connect teachers.
  • Web of Science starstarstarstarstar
    Contains the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. Fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, 1980-present. Includes link to EndNote Web.
  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) starstarstarstarstar
    A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database covering 1975-present. A good place to start your research.
  • Dissertation Abstracts Online starstarstarstarstar
    Index to U.S. dissertations and selected masters thesis; also includes selective coverage of theses and dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and other European countries. Dissertations and theses from all academic disciplines are included.
  • eLibrary starstarstarstarstar
    Searchable full-text database including magazine and newspaper articles, books, maps, pictures, and media transcripts.
  • For Teachers (Library of Congress) starstarstarstarstar
    More than 10 million primary sources online. Supports instruction in social studies and language arts, focusing on the American experience. Inlcudes teachers’ guides, lesson plans and activities.
  • MNCAT/All Campuses – Basic Search starstarstarstarstar
    Search all of the University of Minnesota’s libraries.
  • Professional Collection starstarstarstarstar
    Contains more than 300 full-text magazines and professional journals for educators including topics in many curriculum areas plus: child and adolescent psychology and development; drug and alcohol abuse, etc.
  • NetLibrary starstarstarstarstar
  • PsycARTICLES starstarstarstarstar
    A database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe and Huber.
  • PsycINFO (1872-Current) starstarstarstarstar
    Provides access to literature in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences, including education.
  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN) starstarstarstarstar
    Searchable database specializing in early distribution of research results by publishing submitted abstracts and soliciting abstracts of quality research papers.
  • Sociological Abstracts (CSA) starstarstarstarstar
    Covers Sociological Abstracts (CSA) Abstracts of journal articles in the sociological and behavioral sciences drawn from over 1,700 periodicals and other sources.
  • WorldCat starstarstarstarstar
    WorldCat is the OCLC online union catalog, which contains all the records cataloged by over 30,000 OCLC member libraries worldwide.
  • Abbreviations.com starstarstarstarstar
    Abbreviations directory for the web. Includes journal titles.
  • Atomic Learning starstarstarstarstar
    Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use everyday. Note: NDSU does not have a subscription and not all training is free.
  • EndNote Web starstarstarstarstar
    EndNote Web is a Web-based bibliographic service for students and researchers that organizes personal reference collections and saves time retyping references for course work and publication. Register your NDSU information to use this service.
  • Google Scholar starstarstarstarstar
    Publically available browser that searches the web for text or citations to scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Results are in order by relevancy
  • IN-FORUM starstarstarstarstar
    Index to articles published in the Fargo Forum. There may be a charge to view the articles. Check the NDSU Catalog to view our holdings.

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