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Education Research Complete
International database run by EBSCO with topics covering all levels of education and nearly all educational research fields. The database also includes full text for books, monographs and education-related conference papers.

PsycINFO (Ovid)
International database with mainly abstracts of literature in the field of psychology produced by the American Psychological Association. It contains citations and summaries from journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations within the subjects of psychology, education, medicine and psychiatry

Web of science 
Cross-disciplinary, international database with a scientific citation indexing service maintained by Clarivate Analytics. For the most part containing research articles, and journals are ranged by impact factor. In advance: choose the 'Social Science' part (filter to be activated on the left).

ERIC (Ovid)
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an international full-text database on educational research sponsored by the United States Department of Education containing research articles, monographies, dissertations, conference papers, reports and policy papers and other education-related materials. It also provides a controlled vocabulary and a thesaurus.

ERIC (ProQuest)

Sociological abstracts (ProQuest)
International database provided by ProQuest with citations, abstracts, and indexing of literature in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, like education. It contains abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, conference papers and book reviews.

More database options

  • Science Direct  Large subscription-based access to a large database. As the journals are grouped into four sections, you may choose the Social Sciences and Humanities- section.
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
  • Google Scholar International database that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines, including educational science.
  • Browzine Easily browsable format for finding current and back issues of scholarly e-journals from multiple publishers and platforms.

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