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.
- Education Database This link opens in a new windowOffers full text from almost 400 leading journals in the field of education, covering the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education; also includes such areas as special education, home schooling, adult education, and related topics.
- PsycArticles This link opens in a new windowPsycArticles contains the full text of peer-reviewed, scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research with articles from more than 80 journals published by the APA and related organizations.
- Research Library This link opens in a new windowCitations of newspaper and periodical articles covering a broad range of subjects, including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
- 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.
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.