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School of Education: Research Databases

The School of Education specializes in preparing professional educators, educational leadership, and college student personnel to address real world needs of educators in a variety of educational settings.

The PHL

Periodicals Holdings List
The Periodicals Holdings List (PHL) is a listing of both the print/microform periodicals available on the shelves of the Western Illinois University Libraries, and the full-text e-titles available via databases purchased by the Libraries. This resource currently indexes over 20,000 periodical titles.

Article Databases

 

Use the Database Tab on the Library Homepage to access different types of background and scholarly materials (see info bleow for details).


Background Information (These are some databases that will give you background information)
Opposing Viewpoints
CQ Researcher
America’s Newspapers

UMI Dissertation Abstracts--to find doctoral dissertations and thesis in all fields


General Databases (this is a sample, check the database “General Databases for all resources available).

Academic Search Premier

Article First

Catalog of U.S. Gov Publications

InfoTrac

JSTOR

LexisNexis Academic


Subject Databases (this is a sample of selected study areas, check the database “browse by subject” menu for all fields available).

African American Studies-Black Thought and Culture

Business-ABI/Inform

Computer Science/Decision Science-ACM Digital Library

Chemistry-Chemical Abstracts

English-MLA Database
History-American History and Life

Education-ERIC

Psychology-PsycInfo 

Sociology-Sociological Abstracts