Many databases provide direct access to full text. Look for links to "Full Text," "Text," or "PDF." If you choose to print an article, be sure to use the printer icon within the database or within Acrobat if offered, rather than the browser print feature.
When you see this BU InfoLinks icon, you can click on it to connect directly to full text in other databases or to see if we have a print copy of the journal.
You can also search for the journal title (often labeled "Source") in OneSearch. Journals may be available:
For most academic books, Baylor Libraries uses the the LC Classification System. In LC, education books start with the call number "L" and are shelved together.
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The following databases are helpful for finding information (articles, reports, and other documents) specific to the field of education.
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on Educaton. Very useful for introductions to the scholarship of a field and key critical works.
Provides bibliographic information for articles and books for topics on all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialties.
Provides indexing and abstracting for articles in journals related to the administration of primary, secondary and post-secondary educational facilities and programs.
The following databases are specialized databases from other related fields. Oftentimes researchers from within the field of education will conduct research that might fall under the category of Psychology or Business, for example. The databases listed here are the resources that are most often used in conjunction with educational research.
Provides access to full-text articles and reviews from the world's leading management journals.
When you are doing research within the field of education, you may need to consult a multi-disciplinary database. Multi-disciplinary databases contain content from a variety of different fields. That means that your results will include content indexed from education-related resources as well as from other fields. These databases can be useful if your topic crosses over into other fields (i.e. school psychology).
OneSearch is a discovery tool that provides a single place to search most of the content available from the Baylor University Libraries, including:
Citation databases compile the citations in the reference lists of scholarly publications. These kinds of databases allow you to ind newer resources that reference a resource or author that you already know. You may want to do this in order to find more articles on a particular topic, see how an idea has grown over time, see where other researchers are citing your work or the work of other authors that you follow, or to see citation numbers or metrics to report on a job or grant application, etc.
***Baylor is trialing Scopus AI add-on for the month of October *** Provides citations and abstracts of scholarly works in 240 disciplines from over 7000 publishers. Includes links to references, citations, and related works and has extensive author profiles.
Provides bibliographic references and links to research data in the areas of science, social science, & humanities.
Use the databases below to find dissertations and theses from Baylor University students and around the world.
Provides access to Baylor dissertations and theses sent to University Microfilms, Inc. since about 1960 with full text of dissertations and theses (PDF files) since 1996 available at no charge to Baylor-affiliated persons.
Indexes Ph.D. dissertations and Master's theses in the collection of OCLC member libraries around the world.
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