Library Guides: Education (General): Finding Articles

Contact the Librarian at your campus for more help!

University Park / World Campus:
Karla Schmit
(KMS454@psu.edu or 814-863-5521)

University Park / World Campus:
Ellysa Cahoy
(ellysa@psu.edu or 814-865-9696)

Abington:
Binh Le
(BPL1@psu.edu or 215-881-7426)

Altoona:
Cori Biddle
(CLB64@psu.edu or 814-949-5250)

Berks:
Brett Spencer
(DBS21@psu.edu or 610-396-6261)

Erie:
Jane Ingold
(JLI4@psu.edu or 814-898-7278)

Harrisburg / World Campus:
Bernadette Lear
(BAL19@psu.edu or 717-948-6360)

Scranton:
Kristin Green
(KEG28@psu.edu or 570-963-2633)

Librarians at additional locations

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ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Best source for Education literature. Unlike other library databases, ERIC allows you to search for education levels (such as elementary or secondary) and target audience (such as parents or teachers). This version links to Penn State's paid journal subscriptions, enabling you to read articles online.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the major database for education literature, sponsored by the U.S. Department. of Education. The same database content is available on many platforms.
ProQuest Education Journals This link opens in a new window
Need just a few articles quickly? Start here.
ProQuest Education Journals provides access to over 785 journals, more than 615 in full text, including all aspects of education, with coverage since 1991.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google's search engine for scholarly journals.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.

To Expand Your Search

LionSearch This link opens in a new window
an integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archive of major scholarly journals, including Education. Unlike many library databases, JSTOR includes and searches full-text articles back to the 1800s. Thus it is helpful for finding resources on obscure topics.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that provides a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and a selection of scholarly books. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. While indexing for JSTOR articles is covered in LionSearch, the full text of the articles is not searched in LionSearch. Search JSTOR itself to ensure detailed coverage of full texts.
PsycINFO (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Helpful for behavioral and psychological topics, such as child development, learning disabilities, and school psychology.
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
ERIC (USDE) This link opens in a new window
Public version of ERIC. Does not provide full-text of most articles, but does offer full-text of other documents that are not in the ProQuest version above.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the major database for education literature, sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Education - Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Vetted lists of the seminal articles, books, and sites for more than 200 topics in Education. Helpful for ensuring that you have identified the most important literature for your subject.
"With Oxford Bibliographies in Education, students and scholars now have a reliable, selective, and authoritative guide to the best literature in the field."
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Finds articles that are freely available on the Internet, many of which do not appear in library databases.
Search journal articles at the 'one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals'.

Other Subject Guides

Other Education Subject Guides
A list of more specialized Education library guides.