Library Guides: Education: Using ERIC

Three flavors of ERIC

ERIC [EBSCO]
The world's largest database of education research. 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]
The world's largest database of education research. Includes bibliographic entries, full-text articles, and a thesaurus of education-related terminology that is used to tag entries in the database.

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.

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.

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.