Resources for School of Education

Through this library session, students will learn to:

• create and revise effective database searches for a research topic using a variety of strategies.
• distinguish between popular, trade, and scholarly sources.
• evaluate sources based on the suitability for their information need.
• select articles from an array of choices in online databases that fit the research topic at hand.
• use citation resources in order to maintain academic integrity.
• demonstrate a basic ability to thoughtfully organize and store information sources.

Lavery Library offers access to over 150 different academic research databases.

The databases listed below are Stacia's top recommendations for education-related research topics:

• Education Source
• ProQuest Education
• Taylor & Francis
• APA PsycNET
• ScienceDirect
• JSTOR
• SAGE Journals

Identifying differences between scholarly, trade, and popular publications helps to select the proper resources for research.

Most, if not all, of the sources in your Family Project's literature review will be scholarly and peer-reviewed.

Chart of Publication Types