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Overview of Education at Virginia Tech University Libraries

An overview of resources for education can be found in the University Libraries' general Education Subject Guide.
Most physical education books have a call number that begins with "L" and are located on the third floor of Newman Library. (More specific call number information can be found here.)
- However, please note we offer a lot of electronic books as well!
The libraries offer many journals related to education:
The libraries provide access to a number of subject-specific databases to simplify finding articles within these journals.
Summon is the libraries' tool to allow you to search across a wide variety of sources from books to articles to journals to databases.

General Education Research Databases

Education Research Complete from EBSCOhost
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Education Research Complete indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journals, books, book chapters, case studies, essays, interviews, conference proceedings, product reviews, and experiments in all areas of education. You can limit to peer-reviewed journals. 1865-present.

The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for nearly 1,300 journals. This database also includes full text for nearly 550 books and monographs, full text for numerous education-related conference papers, plus author profiles for the most prolific authors in the field.
Educators Reference Complete from Gale
Educators Reference Complete Indexes citations and full text of academic journals, reports, and reference works in administration, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing.
ERIC from EBSCOhost
ERIC indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journal articles, conference and meeting papers, government documents, theses and dissertations, reports, A/V materials, books, and more on all aspects of education. Many documents are available in full text (HTML and PDF). You can limit to peer-reviewed sources for documents published since 2004. 1966-present.
Teacher Reference Center from EBSCOhost
Teacher Reference Center indexes abstracts, citations, and full-text articles from academic journals, magazines, directories, biographies, and case studies on all aspects of education.The full-text materials are available in both HTML and PDF formats. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1984-present.
Education Index Retrospective: 1929 -1983 from EBSCO
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Education Index Retrospective indexes citations and abstracts of journal articles covering all aspects of education.

Additional Resources

Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education provides full text HTML articles from the publication back to 1970.
SAGE Research Methods Online
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SAGE Research Methods indexes full-text books, reference sources, the "little green book" series (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences), the "little blue book" series (Qualitative Research Methods), journal articles, and videos. Since this platform focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences, and more. Full text available in HTML and PDF. You can limit searches by research method type. 1970s-present.

The Methods Map is an exciting and innovative visualization tool that can be used to discover relationships between methods, to discover new methods and to find content related to them. Underpinning the Methods Map is a new taxonomy of social science research methods, developed by SAGE, and containing over 1,400 unique terms.

The Methods Lists are lists of content within the product that our users have selected and want to share through this product. You can create your own lists, either for private use, or to share with others on the site.

The Little Green Books are our famous series, Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. This entire series is available on SAGE Research Methods, with additional tools across the site to filter your search on just these titles.
Cabell's Scholarly Analytics
Cabell's provides information on the journal article publishing process: acceptance rates, style and formats, types of review processed, time required, and other criteria to find the best fit for your manuscript. Reports provided in HTML and PDF.

Need to connect with the Education Librarian?

Lisa Becksford

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lisab5@vt.edu

Working remotely fall 2020

Subjects:Social sciences and education

Searching Specific Journals

Review of Educational Research
Use this link to access a searchable version of the Review of Educational Research. To search much in the same way you would a database, click on "Advanced Search" next to the standard search box.
Review of Research in Education
Use this link to access a searchable version of the journal. Use the search box to search within the journal.