Education Subject Guide

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• Education Source 
  Includes thousands of scholarly and professional journals covering all areas of Education. International
• ERIC 
  Covers over current journals, most of which are peer reviewed; also includes conference papers, research reports, and other grey literature (ERIC Documents). Mostly US-based.
• PsycINFO
  International coverage of scholarly journals in educational psychology and child development.

• Academic Search Complete
  Multidisciplinary database which includes scholarly education journals, many of which are fulltext.
  
• Web of Science
  Interdisciplinary, with select high-impact journals and citation network searching
  
  
• Business Source Complete
  Essential resource for research and trade publications on human performance technology, online instruction, corporate training, etc.
• ABI/INFORM Global
  Essential resource for research and trade publications on human performance technology, online instruction, corporate training, etc.
  
  
• Érudit
  French and English content. Scholarly coverage of education issues relative to Canada and Quebec
• Eureka
  Search for Education related stories in fulltext French language daily newspapers like La Presse and Le Devoir, as well as the magazine L'Actualité; also includes English language Canadian newspapers.
• Canadian Public Policy Collection 
  Online collection of policy documents, government reports, and scholarly ebooks.
• ProQuest Combined Canadian
  Search for Education related stories in fulltext Canadian daily newspapers newspapers, news sites, and journal articles.
• OECD Publications & Data (Policies)
  Useful for Comparative Education, providing International perspectives on Education issues; access to fulltext publications such as World Education Indicators, Education at a Glance:OECD Indicators.
• ScienceDirect Journals 
  Provides access to key education and related journals not covered by ERIC or embargoed on Education Source (e.g. Computers & Education, Computers in Human Behavior).

The following handbooks and encyclopedias provide background information on and insights into research topics and reseach methods: 

• Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Education
• Review of Research in Education
• Review of Educational Research
• Sage Research Methods Online: Education

Material to support student teachers in the Early Childhood and Elementary Education (ECEE) programme, containing a selection of practice teaching materials appropriate for preschool and elementary school age children, can be found in the Webster Library Curriculum Collection (3rd floor). The collection includes children's books (fiction & non-fiction), activity and lesson planning books, as well a sampling of games, puppets, and puzzles.

The ECEE Curriculum Collection Guide handout can help you navigate the collection.

• Spectrum
  Locate Concordia Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations published from 1967 onwards.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Closed Collection
  Citations and abstracts to over two million Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations published since 1861;more than 600,000 are available fulltext
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
  Indexes over 1.5 million electronic Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations from over 600 institutions around the world; includes links to fulltext