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Databases for Educational Research
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL covers literature related to nursing and allied health.
- EMBASE : Excerpta Medica DatabaseDatabase in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research.
- ERIC on EBSCOhostA broad education database covering all levels of education.
- PsycINFO
Now called APA PsycINFO. Abstract and index of Psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, sociology, business, education, etc.
- PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's to present.
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Use advanced search - This will allow you to customize how you search the record. For example, you can target searching the titles and abstracts in PubMed using the pull-down field tag Title/Abstract.
Explore controlled vocabulary - databases has subject terminology that can help your search for concepts that might not be used as keywords. For example, PubMed's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) has many medical education terms to use. You can use a MeSH term like "Education, Distance" for gathering evidence on online education concepts. Other controlled vocubularies include: CINAHL Subject Headings, Embase Emtree, ERIC Thesaurus, PsycINFO Thesaurus.