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Johanne LongvaSubject specialist in special needs education and subject didactics
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Selected databases
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.
Other information resources/encyclopedias
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Past Masters Database comprising a large collection of definitive scholarly editions of canonical authors' work, e.g. of John Dewey, including extensive introductions, editorial commentary and footnotes contextualizing various work.
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International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (2nd edition) – An outline of social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale, mapping central literature through review articles (authors are experts in their individual fields).
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IInternational Encyclopedia of Education – The online version of this encyclopedia covers education, special need education, higher education, teacher education, educational leadership, and more.
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Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions
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Britannica Academic [Encyclopedia Britannica]
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SAGE Research Methods – Includes quantitative applicat
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JSTOR – Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
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Springer E-books – in the field of education
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World bank e-library Books and documents from the World Bank (not available via Oria)
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OECD Source – Digitalt library of books, journals and statistical material within the Field of education.
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Norwegian national curricula in fulltext Published by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training
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The Norwegian Government's website. Find White papers and Official Norwegian Reports
Review Journals
- Educational Research Review
- Review of Educational Research
- Review of Higher Education
- Open Review of Educational Research
- Educational Review
- Review of Research in Education
- Educational Psychology Review
- Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
- International Review of Education
- Comparative Education Review
- Oxford Review of Education
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PhD on Track
PhD on Track is for all beginning researchers, main topics are the research process, communicating results, and open science.