While Research@UWW is a good starting point for finding articles, using education databases will provide fewer, but more focused results.
Below are some suggested databases to search for locating journal articles to get you started on your assignment. Visit A-Z Databases for a complete list.
Offering full text of journals, books, videos, and education-related conference papers, as well as millions of citations. Coverage spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and includes specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
The world's largest source of education information. More than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice, some linking out to full text.
Here are some search tips to remember when searching the databases.
1. Be sure to mark the "peer reviewed" or "scholarly" limit when searching for peer reviewed articles.
2. Use quotation marks around phrases (e.g. "health education", "type II diabetes")
3. Use the word "AND" between different concepts.
4. Use the word "OR" between similar concepts.
5. A common truncation symbol in the databases is the asterisk symbol *. Using this will allow you to search for various forms of the word in one step. For example, strateg* will search for strategy, strategies, strategize, and strategic.
Here are some example searches:
When the full text of an article is not immediately available in the database you are searching, you have three options:
1. Tap the button or link to locate it or be directed to a Request form.
How to Use Find It: Step by Step
2. Install the LibKey Nomad tool to more seamlessly connect to articles found in databases, Google Scholar, and elsewhere. You only have to do this once. Tap here for instructions or view the video:
How to Install and Use LibKey Nomad
3. If Andersen Library does not have access to a book, journal or article, request it via Interlibrary Loan.
While Research@UWW includes many government documents, as does ERIC, look for background information in CQ Researcher.