Library Guides: Doctor of Education (Ed.D.): Home

Western Libraries OneSearch

Use OneSearch to locate Western Libraries' books, articles (popular and scholarly), videos, and more! This is a great place to begin your search.

Resources

Graduate Research and Writing Studio
Citation Guides & Style Manuals
Quick guides to the most commonly used citation styles with links to examples of subject specific styles.
OWL at Purdue APA guide
Zotero citation manager
Free application that runs off of Firefox and helps you manage your research.
ILLiad
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To request an item through Interlibrary Loan(ILL), you must begin by registering. ILL supports the research needs of the current WWU faculty, students, and staff by copying or borrowing materials from other libraries and Document Delivery services.

Google Scholar

Search Google Scholar for scholarly articles and books. You can see what item are in Western Libraries by setting Scholar Preference Library Links to Western Washington University.

Three flavors of ERIC

ERIC [EBSCO]
The EBSCO interface offers the most comprehensive coverage of ERIC, the world's largest database of English language education research. It Includes bibliographic entries, full-text articles, and a thesaurus of education-related terminology that is used to tag entries in the database.
ERIC [U.S. Department of Education]
This is the open access interface to the ERIC database. Unlike EBSCO or Proquest, users can filter results by identifiers, a controlled vocabulary of Proper Nouns broken into three categories: Laws, Policies, and Programs; Assessments and Surveys; and Locations.

ERIC (Proquest)
The Proquest version tends to be good at giving relevant results, but has less direct access to the full text of articles than Ebsco.

ERIC is the best education database for most education research topics. As a Western student, there are a few ways to access ERIC. Each one has slightly different features, but indexes the same sources.

The ERIC Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary of language, specifically nouns, used in the field of Education. It contains both descriptors and synonyms.

Descriptors are terms that describe what a document is about, and every document in ERIC is assigned at least 3 descriptors. Descriptors allow researchers to locate articles about the same subject even if different authors use different language or terminology in their writing. Note that these are referred to as "subjects" in the EBSCO interface.
Synonyms direct researchers to the descriptor used in the ERIC database to express the same concept.

Researchers can browse the thesaurus, use it to populate a search, and use descriptors to filter results lists in every flavor of ERIC.

ERIC Identifiers are lists of standardized proper nouns. Searching with Identifiers is more specific than a keyword search as identifiers are included in ERIC records only when specifically noted in the content. There are three categories of Identifiers:

Location Identifiers include continents, countries, historical locations, regions, US states, major US and foreign cities, and US territories.
Laws, Policies, and Programs Identifiers include federal, state, and international laws; educational policies and programs; Constitutional amendments, and Supreme Court Cases.
Assessment and Survey identifiers include assessments, tests, surveys, and measures.

Although, Identifiers can be added in an advanced search in the EBSCO interface, they can only be used a filters in the Open-Access version of ERIC. Use the links above to browse current indentifiers.

Indigenous Digital Collections

The University of British Columbia provides links to Open Collections in the UBC Library and Digital Collections available in Canada, United States, and New Zealand. https://guides.library.ubc.ca/Indiglibrarianship/digitalcollections