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Education Databases
- ERIC : Education Resources Information Center This link opens in a new windowUse to find education-related materials in all aspects of education research and practice. Contains full-text articles and abstracts, research reports, surveys, curriculum and teaching guides and instructional materials, and reports from the largest collection of education material sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
- Education Full Text This link opens in a new windowUse to find resources in the field of education, covering all levels of education from early childhood to higher education plus multilingual education, health education and testing. Contains indexes and abstracts of journal articles, monographs, and yearbooks. Provides full text access to selected education journals.
- Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new windowUse to find information for educators, professional librarians and education researchers. Contains abstracts and full-text articles from education journals and reports.
Business/Leadership Databases
- Business Source Premier This link opens in a new windowUse to find information on all areas of business, including topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Contains full-text scholarly articles, books, news industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analysis, working papers, and more.
- ProQuest: Business This link opens in a new windowUse to find global business and economic information. Contains abstracts and full-text scholarly articles, dissertations, trade publications, working papers, newspapers, magazines, market research reports, and key journals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The Economist.
- ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new windowUse to find extensive information on the topic of business. Contains full-text academic articles, dissertations, working papers, industry reports, case studies, and market information.
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowUse to find industry market research reports. Contains comprehensive data and in-depth analysis on thousands of industries around the globe.
- S&P Capital IQ NetAdvantage This link opens in a new windowUse to find critical business and financial data including information on companies, revenues, executives, industries, stocks and bonds, mutual funds, earnings, dividends, strategic investment and business advice, and industry reports. Contains industry surveys and sub-industry data, industry benchmarks (key stats & ratios) and company level comparisons, stock reports, company descriptions and financials. Sourced from Standard and Poor.
- MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
Use to find company, industry, country and financial data for every major marketplace in the world. Contains industry profiles, market data (size & segmentation), company profiles, executive summaries, country profiles, news, and commentary.
- Mergent Archives This link opens in a new windowUse to find global corporate and industry related documents. Contains hundreds of thousands of reports covering over 100 countries and industries, including background information as well as reports and financials. Mergent Archives includes access to new and historical documents.
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowUse to find regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Contains full-text newspapers, magazines, radio and television news transcripts and newswires dating back to 1990.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowUse to find scholarly articles in natural science and social science. Contains full-text articles and abstracts from peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
Dissertation and Theses Databases
- ProQuest (all databases) This link opens in a new windowSearch all of the ProQuest databases across all subject and formats. Can limit by dissertations
- Open Access Theses and DissertationsOATD.org provides open access graduate theses and dissertations from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,218,230 theses and dissertations.
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), which contains 5,964,685 electronic theses and dissertations, is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
- EBSCO Open DissertationsEBSCO Open Dissertations includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world
- OAIsterOAIster is an online combined bibliographic catalogue of open access material. Content can be limited by thesis and dissertations
- PQDT OpenPQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
- Google ScholarDissertations/Theses can be found using Google Scholar but limiting by these material types can be challenging
Other related databases
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowUse to find what is happening in research throughout the world in the fields of science, technology, social sciences, medicine and arts and humanities. Contains abstracts and citations from peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. Must use links to access full-text.
- ProQuest Central. Social Science Database This link opens in a new windowUse to find resources covering a wide range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology. Contains abstracts and full-text articles from academic journals, trade journals, magazines, dissertations, reports, newspapers, blogs, podcasts, conference papers and proceedings and website links.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowUse to find peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences,mental health and related disciplines. Contains citations, abstracts and full-text scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, reports, and dissertations. Sourced from the American Psychological Association (APA).
- PolicyMap This link opens in a new windowUse to find online data and mapping applications. Contains access to over 15,000 indicators related to demographics, housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs and more to create maps, reports and analyses.
- Sage Research Methods video This link opens in a new windowUse to find videos covering every aspect of the research process and hundreds of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Contains research video tutorials, video case studies and expert interviews.
- Mental Measurements Yearbooks with Tests in Print This link opens in a new windowUse to find information on contemporary testing instruments within psychology, education, business, and leadership, designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals. Contains full-text evaluations of test products. All entries contain descriptive information (test purpose, publisher, pricing) and reviews written by area experts.
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