Research Guides: INQ 300 The Politics of Education Policy: Recommended Databases

Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with full-text periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. It features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
"... provides full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing of more than 770 periodicals dating back to 1983. Content includes in-depth coverage of special education and more than 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more."
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
If Fintel Library subscribes to the database or journal where the article was published, Google Scholar will link you to the full-text content.

ERIC Education Resources Information Center
ERIC is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from 1966 to the present. ERIC's mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information for educators, researchers, and the general public.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Covers today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration.
Social Science Index This link opens in a new window
indexes professional literature of the social sciences
SocINDEX with full text This link opens in a new window
Sociology, contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908.
Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Lexis-Nexis Universe (now Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new window
"Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790." Users will find full-text legal, business, medical, and news sources in Nexis Uni.
Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Full text access and image access to more thank 10,000 newspapers from the U.S. and worldwide. Access includes both historical and current day's news which includes the Roanoke Times, from 1990 to the current day.

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