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Features of Journal Articles:

Also known as peer-reviewed or academic articles, they are written by experts and/or highly trained professionals in a particular field.
The rigorous peer-review process ensures articles are vetted and fact-checked before publication.
Journal articles typically focus on a topic through a very narrow lens.

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ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) via EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
The Education Resource Information Center contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
Currently indexes and abstracts over 1000 educational and education-related journals.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
Full text from journals and books on early childhood to higher education, plus educational specialties like multilingual education, health education, and testing. Also includes education related conference papers.
Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Contains the current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education and the backfile to 2015.
Account Creation is not required. If you want an account, create it using your university email using this direct link to The Chronicle and click on Sign in.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, books, & conference papers for disciplines including sociology, anthropology, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, social psych. 1908 - present.
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Features of Scholarly Books:

Due to the length, they typically cover a topic more broadly than journal articles.
They are typically written for a larger audience than journal articles.
They may contain a collection of related chapters by different authors.

Important Note: In most cases you'll only use a chapter or two for your research so don't be scared off by the length of a book.

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Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Search for materials in the Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, and Mansfield libraries plus online books, online media, and government publications.

Websites:

Center for Education Policy Analysis
The Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) is a research center at the Stanford Graduate School of Education dedicated to action-oriented research on education policies.
Center for Education Policy Research
The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University is a partnership among districts, states, foundations, and university-based researchers designed to leverage the overwhelming amount of data to address education policy questions and improve outcomes for all students.
Center on Education Policy
The Center on Education Policy at George Washington University is a national, independent advocate for public education and for more effective public schools. The Center helps Americans better understand the role of public education in a democracy and the need to improve the academic quality of public schools.
Consortium for Policy Research in Education
The Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) is a community of researchers committed to advancing educational policy and practice through evidence-based research. CPRE has adopted an openly-available peer-reviewed publishing model by which member-created research and outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other barriers, in a central open access repository.
Institute for Educational Leadership
The Institute for Educational Leadership partners with under-resourced communities to equip leaders to better prepare children, youth, adults, and families for postsecondary education and training, rewarding careers, and civic and community engagement
National Education Association
The National Education Association (NEA) aims to advocate for education professionals and to unite members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

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Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista.com consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a part of the Institute for Education Sciences within the United States Department of Education.
National Center for Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
UNESCO Statistics on Education and Literacy
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics is the statistical office of UNESCO and is the UN depository for cross-nationally comparable statistics. Access global data, statistics, and research on education and literacy.

Features of News Articles:

Written by journalists and typically reviewed by one or more editors.
Can provide in the moment coverage of current events.
Written for a broad audience.

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Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Selected full text for 40+ national (U.S.) and international newspapers,full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

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Search Everything is the library's equivalent to Google. In addition to searching everything in the Library's Catalog (books, ebooks, media, etc.) it also searches most of our databases containing journal articles and other electronic resources.

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