Library Research Resources for Education Johns Hopkins University

Librarian for Education: Elizabeth Uzelacemail: euzelac@jhu.edu | phone: 410-516-0330

Education Research Guide:http://guides.library.jhu.edu/education

Research Databases

View all Education databases on the

Online Resources

tab of the Education Research Guide. While you are able to search these together using the checkboxes on the research guide, advancedgranular searching usually is served best by going directly to the native interface for a database.

ERIC

Includes ERIC Thesaurus, which allows for fine-tuned use of specialized vocabulary to search forarticles and research reports. Native interface allows limiting by peer review, dates, educational level,intended audience, type of publication (eg. book, dissertation, journal article, report, meeting, paper).

Education Full Text

Indexes more than 770 periodicals as far back as 1983, including over 400 which are peer reviewed.Include fulltext of more than 350 journals as far back as 1996. Includes cross-referenced names of educational tests, schools, an institutions. Notable coverage of special education journal literature.

ProQuest Education Journals

Indexes over 760 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.Native interface includes limit for peer review.

PsycINFO

Indexes more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books,dissertations and technical reports, in the field of psychology, including educational psychology.Native interface allows limiting by journal, publisher, age groups, intended audience, date,publication type, language, population group, methodology, classification codes, and more.

Accessing or Requesting Full Text

Use the brown FindIt button to track down the fulltext of an article onceyou’ve searched a database. You’ll be given a new window that shows theonline fulltext availability, plus any listings for print journals in the library. If we don’t have accessonline or a copy in-house, you can request a copy from another library via interlibrary loan. (Schoolof Education affiliates are “MSE Borrowers”). Faculty and graduate students can request a scanned version of an article we only have in print through the Eisenhower Express service, access throughour interlibrary loan menu.

Search Alerts and Current Awareness Services

Many databases include mechanisms for you to subscribe to alerts of new publications that matchyour favorite searches. The most popular mechanisms are email alerts and RSS feeds.

Example: PsycINFO

search for inclusion and education

Step #1: Look for alert options on results screen:Step #2: Choose method for alert delivery:

You can find more information about RSS online at (forthcoming): http://guides.library.jhu.edu/rss A guide to setting up ProQuest alerts: http://www.proquestk12.com/pic/pdfs/PQAlerts_QSG.pdf

Citation Analysis Tools

As you follow the impact of your own scholarship or others, it can be useful to determine how oftenand by who works or authors are cited, and to be alerted when new citations are tracked.

Social Sciences Citation Index

, (part of

Web of Science

)Includes Social Sciences Citation Index. Look for "Cited by: x,"“Analyze Results,” and “Create Citation Report.” You can create an alert to be notified when the database finds a citation of an article. This databaseindexes scholarly literature, but misses practitioner-focused publications in education.

Academic Search Premier:

Look for "Times cited in this database." This database is cross-disciplinary and broad, but not deep in the subjects of education and teaching. It may lack the depthyou need.

PsycINFO:

Look for "Times Cited inthis Database." PsycINFO indexeseducational psychology literature well,but misses some of the practitioner-focused publications you might be interested in capturing.

Scopus

Look for "This article has been cited x times in Scopus." You can subscribe to an email or RSS alertto be notified when Scopus finds a citation of an article. Scopus indexes educational psychology literature, but misses some practitioner-focused publications you might be interested in capturing.

Google Scholar

Look for "Cited by x." This database tracks citation in grey literature and scholarly websites as wellas journals, though there appear to be only a limited number of peer reviewed education journalsindexed here.

Caveats:

Publication Date: Whenever you're looking for citations that occur in a current or very recent year,the data will be at its most incomplete due to time lags in speed of indexing. This can meanunreliable citation data for the most recently published articles.Breadth of Coverage:

"Times cited in this database" is really the most accurate way of describing any of these measures. There is no database that calculates this metric for the entire universe of journals. These databases don’t cover education as broadly as we’d like.