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Education databases

A list of databases directly or indirectly related to the Education field,either freely available or accessible to registered users.These databases comprise predominantly journal and newspaper literature sources,but also citations from conference papers,reports,etc., including some full text.[Follow this link < Remote Access > for information about access to electronic resources from outside the University]

Database List

Academic OneFile *
AEI Australian Education Index
A+ Education
ALISA Australian Library & Info. Science Abstracts
APA-FT * Full-text version of APAIS [below]
APAIS Australian Public Affairs Information Service
British Newspaper Index
Current Contents
DELTAA English Lang.Teaching Adults in Aust'asia
Digital Dissertations
EBSCOhost  *
EdResearch Online * [ Information about
Education Line * [ Information about ]
Elibrary  *
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Factiva  *
Index toTheses
JSTOR
LLBA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
PCI Periodicals Contents Index *
Professional Development Collection
[EBSCO] *
PsycInfo
Scopus
Social Sciences Citation Index
Sociological Abstracts Sociofile
UNESDOC *  UNESCO Full-text document
Voced Research Database

* Full text content

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ACADEMIC ONEFILE

A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML and PDF format from more than 8000 journals with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects; intended primarily for academic researchers.
Includes Expanded Academic ASAP.
Coverage : 1980 - 

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AEI

Australian Education Index

Contents: Citations,some with abstracts,to published and unpublished Australian literature including journal articles,monographs,research reports, theses,conference papers, legislation, parliamentary debates and book reviews, giving a comprehensive coverage of educational topics.

Time span: 1978+
Updated: Six-monthly
Included in  AUSTROM

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A+ Education
An indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on all aspects of education.
Time span:  2000+

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ALISA

Australian Library & Information Science Abstracts

Contents: Indexes Australian literature in library science, information technology, Australian children's literature. Sources include books, research reports,conference papers, journal articles,theses and unpublished papers. 

Time span: 1982+
Updated: Quarterly
Included in  AUSTROM

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APAIS

Australian Public Affairs Information Service

Contents: Citations to journal literature in humanities, social sciences, and including some books, conference proceedings and newspaper articles, especially on Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs.

Time span: 1978+ 
Updated: Six-monthly 
Included in  AUSTROM 

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Note : Subject terms may be retrieved from the online Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) Thesaurus

APA-FT Full text for selected articles

Electronic database; full text titles are available in pdf format. Range of years and proportion of full text articles available for this title are subject to change.
Time span:  1995+

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BRITISH  NEWSPAPER INDEX

Contents: Indexes for The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Times Educational Supplement,Times Higher Educational Supplement, and The Independent newspapers and any other supplements for this group of newspapers.

Time span: 1990+ 
Updated: Quarterly 
Access:On machine 331 behind the Information Desk in the BSL  

CURRENT CONTENTS

Current Contents is a bibliographic service produced in the United States by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) which indexes a large number of research journals and some books, and covers all disciplines. 

Published: Philadelphia, PA : Institute for Scientific Information, [1998?]- 

Summary: Current Contents Connect is a weekly table-of-contents database which presents the contents pages of current issues of the world's scholarly and technical journals, books, and proceedings literature. 

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DELTAA

Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia 

Contents: Subject index to material in the field of English second language teaching and learning in Australasia. Contains citations to articles on adult basic education,adult immigrant education, Adult Migrant English Program, applied linguistics,cross-cultural communication,English as a second language, English in the workplace, literacy, second language instruction and second language acquisition.

Time span: 1990+
Updated: Quarterly
Included in  AUSTROM 

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DIGITAL DISSERTATIONS

Contents: Citations and abstracts to doctoral dissertations submitted to accredited North American institutions and some other international institutions. 

Time span: 1861+
Updated: Quarterly

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EBSCOhost

Ipswich,MA] : EBSCO Publishing, [1997]- 
Text (electronic database); The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.

Includes the Professional Development Collection ; designed for professional educators, it provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for nearly 600 journals.
Also includes Academic Search Premier.
Time span :1965-

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ELIBRARY

A database of full-text newspapers including Australian newspapers, full-text magazines, newswires, classic books, maps, and photographs, as well as major works of literature and art.

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ERIC

Contents: A U.S. Department of Education database covering the journal and research literature in the field of education research and practice. ERIC merges two files: Resources in Education (RIE), covering the 'grey' literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), covering the published journal literature from over 775 periodicals. It is the world's largest source of education information, containing more than 800,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles. The database is updated monthly. 

Time span: 1966+ 
Updated: Quarterly 

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To identify subject headings / descriptors :
Link to the Thesaurus from the ERIC website

FACTIVA

Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including full text coverage of Australian newspapers, same-day news wires, and company reports. Investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, and historical market data are also provided. Coverage of individual publications varies widely.

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INDEX TO THESES

Contents: Bibliographic information on theses accepted by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards. It does not include any record of higher degrees awarded solely in respect of published work or dissertations submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of a higher degree in conjunction with an examination. 

Time span: 1970+
Updated: Annually 

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JSTOR

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies for each title.

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LLBA

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts 

Contents:A database of abstracts covering three areas: research in linguistics, research in language, and research in speech, language and hearing pathology. The database consists of bibliographic records with abstracts citing journal articles,
books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media. Over 2,600 journals from 50 countries are scanned for inclusion and approximately 17,000 new records are added annually.

Time Span:1973- 

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PCI

PCI full text  : Periodicals contents index. 

Database coverage: 1770- 
Indexes journals from their first issues to 1995. 

Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, includin some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages. Provides links to scanned articles which are growing steadily in number. 

* PCI: Complete Title List [Education titles]

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PSYCINFO

Contents:Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

Time span:1983+
Updated:Quarterly 

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SCOPUS

Scopus offers :

    15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers
          over 1000 Open Access journals
          500 conference proceedings
          over 600 trade publications
    33 million abstracts
    Results from 386 million scientific web pages
    21 million patent records from 5 patent offices
    Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources
    Innovative tools that give an at-a-glance overview of search results and refine them
       to the most relevant hits
    Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles matching your search query, or by
       favorite author

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SOCIAL SCIENCES CITATION INDEX

Contents: Indexes a large number of journals in the social sciences and allows searching for articles that have cited a given article. Science citation index can be searched more easily from 1995 onward in the Web of science citation database.

Time span: 1990-2000
Updated: Quarterly 

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SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS

Sociofile

Contents:An index with abstracts to journals, conference papers, book reviews, books in sociology, social policy, psychology and social sciences especially those dealing with culture and society.

Time span:1974+ 
Updated:Quarterly 

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