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ENG 641: Classroom Research I (Androne): Finding Articles

Scholarly and Literary Databases

Use the following databases to find information about authors you are studying and their creative works. Just enter the name of your author or the name of one of their works in the search blank.

Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides resources on all levels of education, including higher education and includes more professional and trade publications than indexed elsewhere.
Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for over 1,500 journals, and full-text for more than 750 of them. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. It also has the full-text for over 100 monographs and numerous education-related conference papers.
ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Essential and authoritative database for education research. An index from the US Department of Education that has been around since 1964 ,with some full-text access.
Includes journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers. There is a free version that anyone can use at eric.ed.gov. Use the library version because you will be able to access the full-text of the articles you find more easily. Currently indexes more than 600 journals.

In addition, contributors have given ERIC permission to display more than 115,000 full-text materials in PDF format. These materials are generally part of the recent grey literature such as conference papers and reports, rather than journal articles and books. Older ERIC documents that are not free on the web are available on microfiche, but must be recalled from storage.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes professional and trade journal articles for teachers and school administrators in Pre-K through higher education.
Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full-text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
An index to scholarly articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations published internationally on modern (Medieval to today) languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics (including composition and rhetoric since 2000). Coverage has varied but now includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing. Some full-text.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide range of full-text scholarly content, academic journals, primary sources, and e-books, across a wide range of subject areas. Also searches artwork in ARTstor. Collections I-X all campuses. Collection XI Oxford and Middletown campus users only. Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.

Articles & More - reaching a wider variety of publications

Articles & More

Start searching for articles here (searches 80 databases at once).
Use limiters to narrow your results - peer-reviewed, subject, date, etc.
Use the "Cite" tool on the right to create an APA or MLA citation.
To share this article, copy the Permalink on the right in the item record (not the browser URL).

Watch: Articles & More (Burke, 3:00 min., 2018) or Focusing Your Search in Articles & More (Burke, 2:17 min., 2020)

Google Scholar: an alternative for finding articles

Google Scholar
Academic research articles and books, found through Google. Some will be freely accessible, and some will require a subscription.
Does Miami already own a Google Scholar article?
Two Minute Tutorial: Google Scholar

Getting Started: ask me for ideas!

If you aren't sure how to phrase your topic for searching, use our Pre-Search service to get suggestions on words to use and places to search.

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