Subject Guide
Tracy Ruppman
she/her
Contact:
Research and Learning Librarian
Liaison for the School of Education
Liaison for the departments of Psychology and Sociology
Interim liaison for the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Lewis Library
Loyola University Chicago
25 E. Pearson #615
Chicago, IL 60611
312-915-6949 voice
312-915-6244 fax
truppman@luc.edu
Liaison for the School of Education
Liaison for the departments of Psychology and Sociology
Interim liaison for the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Lewis Library
Loyola University Chicago
25 E. Pearson #615
Chicago, IL 60611
312-915-6949 voice
312-915-6244 fax
truppman@luc.edu
Education-related Databases
These database are recommended for articles on service learning, experiential learning, commuity-based learning, and other related topics.
- Child Development & Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new windowFull-text book reviews and article abstracts on the topic of child development and adolescent studies, related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Includes articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, theses, and dissertations.
- Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowIndex of dissertations and theses with abstracts and full-texts. Coverage: 1861-present.
- Education Research Complete This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles and conference papers covering education research from early childhood to higher education for all educational specialties. Coverage: 1880 - present.
- Educational Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new windowArticle abstracts covering essential areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Coverage: 1924 - present.
- ERIC via EBSCO This link opens in a new windowAbstracts and full text articles, reports, curriculum, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books. Coverage: 1966 - present.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) This link opens in a new windowEvaluation and measurement tools in health and psychosocial studies. Instruments available include questionnaires, checklists, index measures, rating scales, project techniques, tests, and interview schedules.
- MAS Ultra: School Edition This link opens in a new windowFull-text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and images (photos, maps, and flags) designed for high school students. Includes expanded full text backfiles for key magazines. Coverage: 1975 - present.
- OmniFile Full Text Select This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles, images, abstracts, and citations covering education, general science, humanities, social sciences, and business. Coverage: 1982 - present.
- Primary Search This link opens in a new windowFull-text magazines designed for the elementary school student, including an image collection of photos, maps, and flags. Coverage: 1985 - present.
- Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles on children's health and development, pedagogical theory and practice for educators, professional librarians, and education researchers. Coverage: 1930 - present.
- PsycArticles This link opens in a new windowA database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowIndexes literature in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Updated weekly. Coverage: 1800s - present.
- Teacher Reference Center (TRC) This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts from peer-reviewed journals covering assessment, best practices, language arts, literacy, etc. Coverage: 1984 - present.
Multidisciplinary Databases
These databases are recommended for broader, more general searching. See center column resources for more specific resources for Education.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing in wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural issues.
- Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowFull-text reviews of primary research covering biological, medical, physical, and social sciences.
- ArticleFirst This link opens in a new windowIndex of citations of journals related to science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Coverage: 1990 - present.
- ECO -- Electronic Collection Online This link opens in a new windowECO indexes more than 5,000 academic and professional journals in the fields of agriculture, anthropology, business, economics, education, fine arts, geography, history, language, law, political science, literature, medicine, philosophy, and others.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowElectronic full-text journals over a broad range of topics. Titles are usually covered from their first issue, excluding only the most recent 2-5 years.
- PapersFirst This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary index of individual papers presented at conferences, with abstracts from the British Library. Coverage: 1993 - present.
- Proceedings This link opens in a new windowCitations of individual papers presented at conferences throughout the world. Coverage: 1993 - present.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowFull-text journals covering literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies. Coverage: 1993 - present.
- Web of Science (ISI Citation Indexes) This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary index of scholarly journals with citations. Coverage: 1980 - present. Limited to five simultaneous users.
Possible Search Terms
Engaged Learning
Experiential Learning
Service Learning
Community Scholarship
Community Engagement
Community-based Learning