Education

We hold a selection of databases which contain full text and abstracts of e-journals. A full list of all our databases can be found on the Databases page. 

Key databases relevant for Education are listed below.

• Academic Search Premier: covers a whole range of academic subjects, for example educational psychology and health.
• Box of Broadcasts - BoB: the British Universities Film & Video Council's on-demand TV and radio service for education. This service allows students and staff to view, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes from over 60 TV and radio channels.
• British Education Index: provides references on educational research, policy and practice in the UK.
• Education Research Complete: full text of 750 education journals.
• InfoTrac Newsstand: provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields.
• ScienceDirect: includes the e-journals Thinking Skills and Creativity.

If you're looking for a particular e-journal title, use our e-journals search engine. Note that a single e-journal title may be held in several different e-journal collections (databases). Here is a selection of relevant e-journals for Education:

• British Educational Research Journal
• The Bookseller 
• Cambridge Journal of Education
• Education 3-13
• Gender and Education
• Oxford Review of Education
• Teaching and Teacher Education
• Education Research International
• International Journal of Education Research
• Childhood Education: Official Journal of the Association for Childhood Education International
• Early Years
• European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
• International Journal of Early Years Education
• Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

These web sites offer selected high quality resources and information:

Education: general

• COPAC Unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
• SCONUL Access: SCONUL is a scheme which allows many university library users to borrow or use books and journals at other libraries which belong to the scheme. It covers most of the university libraries in the UK and Ireland.
• Department for Education
• The Importance of Teaching – The Schools White Paper 2010
• Department for Education. Research and statistics
• Department for Education Performance Tables
• Digital Education Research Archive: Digital publications of UK central government, agencies and other organisations. Hosted by the institute of Education.
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation: A UK social policy research and development charity. Research findings are downloadable.
• National Curriculum: Includes downloadable programmes of study for each subject and key stage. Also has sections on the aims and purpose of the National Curriculum.
• Ofsted: Includes all Ofsted's Inspection reports, plus Ofsted publications and guidance documents.
• Sutton Trust: The Trust focuses on research to address educational inequalities. Reports and research findings are available to download.

Education: International

• Eurydice: Information on and analyses of European education systems and policies.
• OECD: The OECD works on global issues and education is one part of its work. The organisation collects data, monitors trends, and forecasts developments Many documents are downloadable.

Educational research

• CERUK: A searchable database of current education and children's service research projects in the UK.
• Education-line: A full-text database of education 'grey' literature, including conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which support educational research, policy and practice. 
• National Foundation for Educational Research: The NFER undertakes research in all sectors of education.