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Explore a selection of the available databases according to function.
Options for finding more databases.
The Education Library team has developed a core list of databases for locating journal articles and other sources for educational topics.
These databases and platforms are useful if your topic is interdisciplinary (e.g. program evaluation, applied positive psychology, arts education, etc.).
These databases have a specialist focus or provide access to a particular format of information, such as streamed media.
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Including resources for research design, methods, proposals, project management.
Citation tracking allows you to examine research trails and determine the number of times an article has been cited in other papers. It can also reveal connections between authors and other patterns of publication.
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Annotated bibliographies are an excellent starting point to find a variety of key resources in your subject area. For example, journals, journal articles, databases and essential texts. To search for annotated bibliographies. |
A selection of useful Business databases, for case studies for organizational behaviour and applied psychology.
Need more options? More extensive database lists are available in the Management library guide.
Use these databases to locate journal articles and other sources relevant to your topic.
These are links to some highly recommended Education databases to support research in Comparative Education.
Choose one or more search tools from the list.
For some topics you may find these database lists more relevant:
Use these databases to locate journal articles and other sources relevant to your topic.
Use these databases to locate journal articles and other sources relevant to your topic.
Use these Health and Physical Education databases to source journal articles about your topic.
We highly recommend this list of databases created by the course coordinator. Use these databases to locate journal articles and other sources relevant to your topic.
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Web of Science Core Collection provides quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900.
Use these databases to locate journal articles and other sources relevant to your topic.
Use these databases to locate journal articles and other sources relevant to your topic.
Use these databases to source journal articles about your topic.
Don't forget we also have guides for specific learning areas, for example, Maths Education. These subject guides will also include relevant databases.
Use these databases to source journal articles about your topic.
Use these databases to locate journal articles and other sources relevant to your topic.
If you are searching from home or somewhere other than a computer at the campus, you need to set preferences in Google Scholar to activate access to full text for free via the Library.
Follow these steps to make the Find it @ UniMelb links visible in Google Scholar.
Go to Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
Select the menu button in the top left corner of the page
Select the Settings option in the menu.
On the next screen, select the Library links option on the left.
Type, University of Melbourne Library in the search box > then select the search button.
Tick the checkbox next to the option: University of Melbourne Library - Find It@UniMelb
Select the Save button (Cookies must be enabled for your browser to remember your settings for future use)
The Find it @ UniMelb links will now appear in Google Scholar search results - use these to connect to the full-text
Use these databases to source journal articles about your topic.
Consider your disciplinary lens, you may want to search a database which focuses on a specific subject area. For instance if your research is focusing on evaluation in Education, ERIC would be a relevant search tool.