BC3 Library: Education: Recommended Resources

Suggested Databases for Education Research Articles

Britannica Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Britannica, and the resources bundled within the collection, supply topic overviews, biographies, word and concept definitions, a world atlas, historical timelines, quotations, illustrations, photos, videos, links to relevant articles and websites, primary sources, and the World Data Analyst, supplying customizable charts and tables of statistics on countries of the world. Users can suggest edits and additions to content.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost's Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost's ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) database provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This EBSCOhost multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost's Professional Development Collection is designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference provides Topic Pages, which offer background information on a particular topic that can give you an easy starting point and pathways for further research; Access to hundreds of in-depth subject encyclopedias and handbooks covering every major subject from Accounting to Art History and Shakespeare to Einstein; and Mind Maps that visually show relationships between topics and keywords.

Google Scholar includes both books and articles. Be careful when selecting that the source is reputable. If an article is not made freely available online, remember that you can use the BC3 Library's Request an Article service to request it and we will do our best to obtain it and email it to you - free of charge.

Education Journals - Individual Titles

Chance This link opens in a new window
JOPERD Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance This link opens in a new window

Young Children - Summer 2021 issue

Annenberg Learner Videos

These courses are broken down into units, each exploring the topic through a 30 minute video.

Reading & Writing in the Disciplines: Learn research, practice, and tools for integrating discipline literacy into mathematics, science, English, and history/social studies content based lessons.

The Learning Classroom: Theory Into Practice

Open Educational Resources

For more OER Resources, see the Open Educational Resources LibGuide.

Style Guides and Citation Help

Featured Books

Featured E-Books

Books

The BC3 Library has both print and electronic books for education, physical education, early childhood development, and related subjects. They are all listed in the BC3 Library Catalog where you will find Dewey call numbers to locate books on the shelves (lower level of the library) and links to connect you to e-books. E-books can also be searched separately in our two e-book collections: e-Book Central by Proquest and e-Book Collection by EBSCO.

Browsing the Stacks

Education books in the library can be found in the 370 area of the shelves.

Physical education books can also be found in that area, as well as in the 613 and 796 sections.

Child development books are located in the 155 section.