LibGuides: *Doctoral Programs in Education: Databases

Education-Specific Databases

Education Source
Including research journal articles, trade and professional publications, monographs, conference papers, and more, this is the broadest database we offer to search explicitly on education topics across grades and educator roles. Highly recommended for anything touching on schools, learning, or education.
ERIC (EBSCO)
ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, and is an authoritative standard in the field of education. Although much of it is included in a search of Education Source, it can be helpful to run secondary searches through this collection of journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers.

National Center for Education Statistics
Produced by the Institute of Education Sciences (part of the US Department of Education), this site includes lots of reports, datasets, and tools. Major initiatives include official statistics on the condition of education, including adult education and literacy, longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys focused on identifying needed improvements in the education system, and large-scale evaluations of federal education programs and policies.

Wall Street Journal Online

What's Included? Full-text online access to all Wall Street Journal articles, including coverage of breaking news, business, economics, finance, politics, technology, education, arts and culture, sports, health, and more. Learn more about newspaper access (including historical articles) in our Newspapers Guide.
New York Times Online

What's Included? Full-text online access to all NYTimes online articles, including coverage of breaking news, politics, business, technology, education, the arts, sports, science, and more. Learn more about newspaper access (including historical articles) at https://libguides.georgefox.edu/newspapers
Newspaper Search (Primo)
Unlike our WSJ and NYTimes subscriptions, which grant you access to the online newspaper platform, this is a traditional index of all newspapers in our extensive online collections (including both WSJ an NYT). Consider this tool when searching for historical coverage of a topic or when looking for regional or niche news sources.

APA PsycInfo
This is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Users can limit a search by psychology-related categories, including age group, methodology, classification codes and population groups. May be of particular interest for topics of cognition, affective dimensions of learning, and motivation as well as more explicit intersections of psychology and education.
SocINDEX
A workhorse platform for literature in sociology or social work, this is another excellent secondary platform to consider for topics affecting human populations, and is explicitly recommended for education research touching on social work.

Statista
This tool offers user-friendly and well-cited access to statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources, including large datasets like Pew and the US Census as well as otherwise proprietary demographic, political, and market surveys.
Google Scholar (Find it @ George Fox)

Freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across a wide array of publishing formats and disciplines. This link includes the setting to connect search results to George Fox holdings (Find it @ George Fox links). Learn more in our Google Scholar guide. (https://libguides.georgefox.edu/GoogleScholar).
Academic Search Premier
This resource searches collections included in other EBSCO databases, meaning it searches across many disciplines at once. Use this for early research or for interdisciplinary topics. Also consider ProQuest Central or Library Search/Primo.
ProQuest Central
This database is actually a combination of many ProQuest databases, meaning it searches across many disciplines at once. Use this for early research or for interdisciplinary topics. Also consider Academic Search Premier or Library Search/Primo.