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Education Research

main guide for education research and resources for the College of Education

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is good for:

beginning researchers who need help finding journal titles and authors
finding obscure references
citation tracking

It is limited because it cannot:

search by discipline
limit or filter search results

Google also does not release the names of the publishers or journal titles the results come from.

It is an imprecise search tool, particularly when compared to the discipline specific databases available through the library.

Databases

Education Source This link opens in a new window
Includes the databases Education Full Text, Education Abstracts, and Education Index Retrospective
ERIC (on EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
US national database of education literature - includes grey literature as well as peer-reviewed lit
Educational Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window

PsycINFO including PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Dissertations & Theses @ BTAA Institutions This link opens in a new window

MSU Theses & Dissertations
Search MSU D&T. Post 2011 have been submitted electronically & will be of good quality. Earlier were scanned & quality may vary.
Guide on finding D&T
if you can't find what you're looking for in the three databases above, this guide might help

Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
authoritative, annotated bibliographies
SAGE Knowledge Encyclopedias and Handbooks This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
robust tool that includes foundations, cases and datasets

Trouble Accessing E-Resources?

Reference & Discovery Services can help with:

accessing e-resources - articles, journals, databases, e-books...these are the people you need to contact if you have trouble
other tech support
reference questions - quick questions to more in-depth...if they need to, they'll refer you to me. They're available more hours than I am and more quickly too!