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

The two guides below are designed primarily to support student teachers in the Early Childhood and Elementary Education (ECEE) programme. They contain a selection of practice teaching materials appropriate for preschool and elementary school age children. These materials are located in the Webster Library Curriculum Collection (3rd floor). The collection includes children's books (fiction & non-fiction), activity and lesson planning books, games, puppets, and puzzles. 

• Early Childhood Education
• Elementary Education

• 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