Education resources to help get you started
- ERIC This link opens in a new windowERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the world's most widely used index to educational-related literature. It contains a wide variety of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowCovers the academic research and practice literature in all areas of psychology. Be sure to use the limits on the right side of your search results screen to narrow your results. PsycInfo indexes journal articles, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports, and other documents in dozens of languages.
- Education Full Text This link opens in a new windowThis full-text source for education scholarship provides coverage for a wide range of topics, including adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, secondary education, special education, teaching methods and more.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar searches for scholarly materials in journals, books, and other sources. Will also display Bucknell's full-text access if Library Link is enabled.
Research Assignment Tip:
While Google Scholar will search across a huge range of journals, not all of them will be specific to your disciplines of interest.
Searching within education- and psychology-focused journals may help you obtain a more specific and relevant list of results (potentially saving you time and effort).
Interlibrary Loan
Sometimes you'll find an abstract that fits perfectly with your research topic, but when you try to find the full text of the article you hit a paywall ("For the low, low price of $52 you can access this article for 36 hours!").
DON'T PAY FOR IT!
Instead, copy the title of the article and paste it into the WorldCat search bar at the top of the library homepage. If you see the article in the results in WorldCat, click the title. Find the "Get It" button and click it to submit an interlibrary loan request.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) allows us to borrow the article (or a book) for you at no cost to you. The average turnaround time is 9 hours, so you'll get the article fairly quickly.
If you have any trouble, just contact your librarian for help!
Scholarly Journal Article
When in doubt about whether you have found a scholarly journal article, refer back to this article to see some indicators of scholarly, peer reviewed works:
Lv, B., Wang, J., Zheng, Y., Peng, X., & Ping, X. (2022). Gender differences in high school students' STEM career expectations: An analysis based on multi‐group structural equation model. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 59(10), 1739-1764. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21772
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Searching Across Databases
Searching across databases may be useful, especially for classes like Educational Psychology, where there is crossover between disciplines. You can select any or all databases displayed in the list and add them to your search.
- From within ERIC or PsycInfo, click Change Databases in the hamburger menu
at the top of the page - Check Select All OR check specific databases that you want to include in your search
Note that the options for limiting your search may vary depending on which databases you include in your search.
Reading Complex Material
Information Synthesis
Synthesizing Information Sources - NEW! 
