This research guide is meant to assist students in the Teacher Education program by providing useful journal titles, databases, books, websites, and other resources on the topic of education. This page serves as a landing page for the program while additional tabs at the top serve as resources for some topics within your program.
Helpful Library Guides
Use our Gateway Search to search all of our databases or choose a specific database to narrow your search. Below are a few specific databases that you may want to try.
For resources or assistance searching our databases, please go to the Help tab.
A wealth of resources to help preschoolers and children in the early grades grasp critical early childhood themes. Developed with experts on early childhood education and guided by evidence-based practices of reading instruction, Early Learning offers rich resources designed for easy integration into the classroom curriculum, public library programming, or learning at home.
Education Research Complete offers a large collection of full text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, is an online resource to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966. When provided by ERIC, there are links to the ERIC full text or links to other sources such as publisher websites or DOIs.
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials. In 1993, ERIC began indexing education-related books, including the output of major publishers.
This list is by no means exhaustive. Visit our on-campus libraries to borrow these books.
This list is by no means exhaustive. These journal titles can give the researcher some research from reputable sources.
Select titles from our Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development professional development and education collection. For our complete list of ASCD titles please click here.
E-Books in OhioLINK Databases
This list is by no means exhaustive, but it gives the researcher/student some basics to start their research off. Please utilize the databases listed for more in-depth research.
In one class you are to find a peer reviewed journal article on "diversity in education," the following link will lead you to an FAQ on the subject.
Full-text articles from thousands of academic journals and professional magazines on a wide variety of educational topics to support educator professional development. Includes lesson plans, curriculum standards, and more.
Graphical search interface for students in grades K-5. Explora for Primary Schools is a colorful, mobile-friendly search for students in grades K-5. Explora provides an easy to use interface to find magazine articles, pictures, and encyclopedias. Searching is organized by topic, and topic overviews are available for many subjects.
This resource was previously known as Kids Search.
Explora for Secondary Schools is a search interface designed for students in grades 6-12. It provides students with research tools to obtain appropriate types of content (magazines, newspapers, biographies, etc.) on a variety of topics.
This resource was previously known as Student Research Center.
Middle Search Plus provides full text from over 140 popular middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 170 magazines. Full text is also available for biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals and an Image Collection.
Primary Search provides full text from 57 children's magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children''s reading rooms. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 80 magazines. Other full text sources include: The World Almanac of the U.S.A. and The World Almanac for Kids; The Encyclopedia of Animals; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of Animals and full text for over 100 pamphlets.
TOPICsearch is a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for articles from magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, biographies, book reviews, public opinion polls, EBSCO's Current Issues database, and government information.
Physical Education and Arts and Crafts are also an important part of lesson planning. The two databases below may be useful: