LibGuides: Educational Psychology: Ed Psych Research: Core Sources

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PsycINFO (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
1887 - present. Unlimited users.

Updated monthly. Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 sources, including international material selected from periodicals written in over 35 languages. Contains current chapter and book coverage with worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present, and adds over 60,000 references annually through monthly updates. Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Has over 1.8 million individual records, some dating back to 1887, and includes abstracts from Psychological Abstracts back to 1927, Psychological Bulletin from 1921-1926, and all APA journals and the American Journal of Psychology back to their first issues. Corresponds in part to the print index Psychological Abstracts.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
1929 - present (full text varies by title). Unlimited users.

"The collection includes full text for more than 1,700 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
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ERIC: Education Resources Information Center This link opens in a new window
1966 (selected full text from 1993) - present. Unlimited users.

Updated monthly. Provides a digital library of education-related resources. Contains over 1.1 million citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education.
Also includes more than 107,000 full text non-journal documents indexed by the ERIC database. Approximately one-half of the entries in the ERIC database are to ERIC documents. Microfiche copies of ERIC documents, including those prior to 1996, are in the Collections Deposit Library (CDL) Microforms Collection at MCFICHE 4913.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
1895 - present. Unlimited.

In addition to full-text journals, SocINDEX with Full Text contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. Includes indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources.
LGBTQ+ Life This link opens in a new window
1917 - present. Unlimited users.

This comprehensive database is the definitive index to the world's literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. LGBT Life contains indexing and abstracts for more than 250 LGBT-specific core periodicals as well as periodicals in Women’s and Gender Studies. It also contains more than 350 books and reference works.
LGBT Life provides comprehensive coverage of traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle and regional publications, including The Advocate, Lesbian News and Bay Windows. LGBT Life also provides indexing and abstracts for the full run of many historically significant titles such as ONE, The Ladder, Mattachine Review, Christopher Street and Body Politic. In addition, LGBT Life includes other source types such as monographs, reference books, newsletters, case studies and speeches. It also provides relevant bibliographic data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health) Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
1937 - present. Unlimited users.

Updated monthly. The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines. Includes indexing for more than 5,100 journals with coverage as far back as 1937 and full text coverage for more than 700 journals. In addition to journals, includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, and educational software.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
1950 - present. Unlimited users.

Updated monthly. Provides bibliographic indexing from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from 4,500 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries.
Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Citations are created by the National Library of Medicine, International MEDLARS partners, and cooperating professional organizations.
MEDLINE has worldwide coverage, but 88% of the citations in current MEDLINE are to English-language sources and 76% have English abstracts.
NLM provides free access to MEDLINE through PubMed.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
1950 - present. Unlimited users.
Updated weekly. Provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases. Links to the full text articles are provided when available, subject to UT subscription status.
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2. Chose "more login options".
3. Select "University of Texas at Austin".
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5. Click on your login and select DASHBOARD.
6. Select NCBI Site Preferences
7. Under PubMed Preferences, select Outside Tool.
8. Select F and scroll down to select Find it@UT.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
1900 - present. Unlimited users.

Updated weekly. The Web of Science Core Collection is a group of databases (Science Citation Index Expanded, 1900-present; Social Sciences Citation Index, 1900-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1975-present) that together cover more than 21,000 journals across all disciplines. The Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present) tracks thousands of additional journals that are being considered for inclusion in the main citation indexes. Other files track references from conference proceedings (1990-present) and citations to books (2005-present).
The Web of Science platform currently also provides temporary access to several databases that are not part of the Core Collection, including Biosis Citation Index, Data Citation Index, and Zoological Record.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.

Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.
Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
If you encounter a warning about the security certificate when using the FindIt@UT tool in Google Scholar, you can learn more about that using this guide.

Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Dissertations from universities around the U.S.

Updated monthly. Contains more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Provides full text for many dissertations and theses, including most done after 1997. All subject areas are covered. The database includes more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America with selective coverage for other parts of the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Only bibliographic citations are available for earlier years. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Many dissertations from The University of Texas at Austin are included in the database, though theses from the University are only rarely included.

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Texas ScholarWorks This link opens in a new window
UT Austin dissertations, treatises and theses. Follow the "Communities & Collections" link and choose "UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations."

Updated regularly. Holds digital works and provides related services that constitute an institutional repository for the University of Texas at Austin. Archives and provides persistent and reliable access to the digital works of faculty, staff, and students and aims to provide the greatest possible dissemination and recognition to these works as possible. Digital works include research and scholarship, as well as works that reflect the intellectual and service environment of the campus.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Find dissertations in Google Scholar by adding this phrase to your search terms: "degree of Doctor of Philosophy"

Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.
Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
If you encounter a warning about the security certificate when using the FindIt@UT tool in Google Scholar, you can learn more about that using this guide.
Google Book Search This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of books! Some may limit access due to copyright, so when you find a match, check our Library Catalog to see if we own a copy.

Updated daily. Searches complete text of books from selected library collections and publishers. Search works just like a regular Google search -- when book content contains a match for selected search terms, Google provides links to it in the search results. Depending on a few factors, Google displays everything from a few short excerpts to the entire book.
Each book includes an "About this book" page with basic bibliographic data like title, author, publication date, length and subject. For some books, additional information like key terms and phrases, references to the book from scholarly publications or other books, chapter titles and a list of related books.

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SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new window
A huge collection of social and behavior science encyclopedias, and great place to find more about theories or concepts that are new to you.

Platform for Sage eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more. Only select ebook titles purchased by the UT Libraries are fully accessible.
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide

Some key encyclopedias that aren't all included in the database above...

Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders by Fred R. Volkmar (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020
Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology by Caroline Clauss-Ehlers (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014
Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy by D. C. Phillips (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014
Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development by Stephen J. Farenga; Daniel Ness
Publication Date: 2015
Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development by Stephen J. Farenga and Daniel Ness (Editors)
Publication Date: 2015
Encyclopedia of School Health by David C. Wiley and Amy Carol Phillips Buckenmeyer (Editors)
Publication Date: 2013
Encyclopedia of Special Education by Cecil R. Reynolds, Kimberly J. Vannest and Elaine Fletcher-Janzen (Editors)
Publication Date: 2014
Encyclopedia of Teacher Education by Michael A. Peters (Editor)
Publication Date: 2000
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intellectual and Developmental Disorders by Ellen Braaten (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018

SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.

A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Contains content from over 720 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and ""Little Blue Book” series, two Major Works collating a selection of journal articles, and specially commissioned videos. Researchers can explore methods and concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since Sage Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
For Tips and Tutorials, please see the Sage Research Methods Tutorials page and the Sage Research Methods LibGuide.

Below are some selected, recent books about education research methods, and you'll find additional recent books about educational research methods in our Library Catalog.

Emancipatory and Participatory Research for Emerging Educational Researchers: Theory and Case Studies of Research in Disabled Communities by Joe Barton and Simon Hayhoe
Publication Date: 2022
Evaluating Educational Interventions: Single-Case Design for Measuring Response to Intervention by T. Chris Riley-Tillman, Matthew K. Burns and Stephen P. Kilgus
Publication Date: 2020
Evidence-Based Practice in Education: Functions of Evidence and Causal Presuppositions by Tone Kvernbekk
Publication Date: 2015
Foundations of Education Research: Understanding Theoretical Components by Joy Egbert and Sherry Sanden
Publication Date: 2019
The Meta-Analysis Research in Special Education by Kenneth A. Kavale (Editor)
Publication Date: 2021
Practical Research Methods in Education: An Early Researcher’s Critical Guide by Mike Lambert (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019
Research Methods in Special Education by Brittany Hott. Frederick Brigham and Corey Peltier
Publication Date: 2021
Systematic Reviews in Educational Research: Methodology, Perspectives and Application by Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Michael Kerres, Svenja Bedenlier, Melissa Bond and Katja Buntins (Editors)
Publication Date: 2019
Treatment Fidelity in Studies of Educational Intervention by S. Natasha Beretvas, Greg Roberts, Sharon Vaughn and Vivian Wong (Editors)
Publication Date: 2016

We buy lots of books to support you as a writer. You'll find recent examples below and additional books about academic writing in our Library Catalog.