EDUC 310: Education, Culture, & Equality Research Guide: Home

Created for Kate Wayne's classes

APA resources

Western Libraries APA quick guide (.pdf)
APA presentation (.ppt)
Powerpoint presentation on APA basics
APA format Word template (.doc)

Other resources

Graduate Research and Writing Studio
Zotero citation manager
Free application that runs off of Firefox and helps you manage your research.
Mendeley citation manager

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Three flavors of ERIC

ERIC is the best education database for most education research topics. As a Western student, there are a few different possible ways to access ERIC. Each one has slightly different features, but indexes the same information sources. Hover you cursor over the links to read more about the pros and cons of each version.

ERIC [EBSCO]
The Ebsco version allows you to search other education databases at the same time and has more direct access to full text than the other versions of Eric. However, some people prefer the search functionality in Proquest over Ebsco.

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 [U.S. Department of Education]
This free government version has less access to the full text of articles, but will still be available to you after graduation. Since this is not a subscription site you also will not get the Findit button that helps find access to articles.

More databases

PsycINFO [EBSCO]
Education Abstracts [EBSCO]
Educational Administration Abstracts [EBSCO]
JSTOR [ITHAKA]
JSTOR provides searchable full-text access to backfiles of core scholarly journals in many fields including African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Music, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. There is a gap, usually from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR.
Web of Science [Thomson Reuters]
A multi-database search tool combining all three Web of Science indexes (the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index).Tip:
You can use this index to find works that have cited a specific author or article.

Google Scholar

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