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Educational & Instructional Leadership

A guide for students enrolled in Instructional Leadership or Educational leadership courses.

Which database should you use?

Explore a selection of the available databases according to function.

Options for finding more databases.

  1. Are you looking for a database which focuses on a specific area of teaching e.g. Humanities Education?
    Explore the full list of library guides for education, our learning area guides contain subject focussed database lists.
  2. Find more titles by searching or browsing the A-Z ejournals and databases list

Core Education Databases (try these first)

The Education Library team has developed a core list of databases for locating journal articles and other sources for educational topics. 

Multidisciplinary Search Tools

These databases and platforms are useful if your topic is interdisciplinary (e.g. program evaluation, applied positive psychology, arts education, etc.).

Business Databases

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

Cited reference searching

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.

Tools for specific information needs

Streamed videos and media

These databases have a specialist focus or provide access to a particular format of information, such as streamed media. 


Comparative education data


Research resources

Including resources for research design, methods, proposals, project management.


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