Research Guides: Education: Articles (Databases)

Peer-reviewed articles

While LibrarySearch or Google Scholar can be useful, subject-specific databases allow for more targeted searching.

These databases are a good place to find peer-reviewed journal articles in the discipline of Education. Some of these databases are also good places to find dissertations, conference papers, and other types of scholarly literature.

ERIC
The main database for the discipline of education.
APA PsycNet
Covers journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Social Services Abstracts
Current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields.
Linguistics and language behavior abstracts (LLBA)
covers all aspects of the study of language including literacy and second language learning.

Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Reviews over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations
Web of science core collection
Nice cross-disciplinary coverage however coverage of education journals is weak.
Social Science Premium Collection
Provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.

News and magazine articles

Chronicle of Higher Education
Provides national and international news in higher education.
New York times
Learn how to set up your access through UO Libraries’ subscription. (This process may be unavailable for new users November 25 through December 1, 2025.) UO’s New York Times online subscription provides current UO faculty, students, and staff access to domestic and international news, educational videos, podcasts, blogs, interactive multimedia, and much more. Unlimited access provided for content newer than 1980 and older than 1923. (Access to content within the date range 1923-1980 is limited to 5 articles per day. NYT Archive page offers alternatives).

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Newspaper Source
Provides full text coverage of more than 340 regional, national and international newspapers. Includes full-text television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
Access world news
Access World News Research Collection is a full-text news resource consisting over 11,000+ local, regional, national and international sources (6,800+ US and almost 4,200 international sources). This database includes access to many local Oregon new sources, including The Oregonian and the Register-Guard up to current day. Updated daily, it offers researchers and students valuable primary source information on today’s issues and events from newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video clips, web only, and blogs.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Articles, editorials, and reviews published in approximately 200 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals published in the U.S, dating back to the mid-1990s.

Searchable in both English and Spanish.

Also see the following guide for more information on finding newspaper articles:

Finding Newspaper Resources
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Accessing the full text of articles

When you're looking at an article in a database, look for a link to access the full text of the article as a PDF or HTML full text.

If there's no full text link available, click on the FindText button (or it might say "Access Options" or "Find it @ UO") to see what your other options for access are. This will take you to the library catalog, where it will show you whether the article is available from a different source through the library's subscriptions.

If you still can't find the full text of the article, you can request a copy using Interlibrary Loan. You should receive the article electronically within 1-2 days.

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Peer-reviewed articles

News and magazine articles

Accessing the full text of articles