Education

Subject Research Guide -- Education

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This Research Guide is designed to help you find resources in Education - whether you're looking for books (print or e-books), multimedia (DVDs, CDs, streaming video, etc.), or articles from print or online databases - you will be able to find materials that are credible, accurate, and authoritative. Just follow the tabs above which will help you to focus on a topic, get background information, get recent information, use Internet resources wisely, and cite your sources.

Our goal is to help you find quality resources in the most efficient manner, making the research process a rewarding experience. Please click on the Getting More Help tab if you need further assistance.

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Gale eBooks
Gale eBooks includes encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.

Databases

ERIC
Articles and documents related to education research, searching scholarly and trade journal articles. NOTICE: Effective April 28, 2025 ERIC has experienced a reduction in content. You will see less research and fewer results going forward. Visit https://guides.iona.edu/education or libraries.iona.edu for more information and other sources of education-related journals and databases.
Wilson Education Full Text
Provides full text of articles from 350+ journals as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing of more than 770 periodicals dating back to 1983. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more. (Insights enabled)
ProQuest Education Journals
Gives users access to 900+ top educational publications, including 600+ titles in full-text; covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
Professional Development Collection
A collection of information for professional educators and education researchers. This database offers information from 500+ full-text journals on everything from children’s health and development to pedagogical theory and practice.
Teacher Reference Center
TRC provides indexing and abstracts for 280+ of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Britannica Elementary
Easy-to-read articles and age-appropriate reference and learning materials, the elementary level of Britannica School Edition is geared toward Pre-K and up.
Britannica Escolar Primaria
A knowledge-building resource for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. Primaria is for elementary-aged students.
Britannica Escolar Secundaria
Knowledge-building resource for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. Secundaria is for grades 6 through 8.
Britannica High
Geared towards high school students. Also contains Learning Materials, a collection of educational exercises, activities, and study guides.
Britannica Middle
Articles and age-appropriate reference and learning materials, ideal for 6th-8th grade students.
Middle School (Gale In Context)
Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Research in Context combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Students will find outstanding support to complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history.

EBSCO (all collections)
Articles and ebooks covering multidisciplinary subjects from all Ebsco databases.
JSTOR
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Journal coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year.
ProQuest Central
Articles from journals and newspapers covering all subject areas. Includes dissertations, working papers from OECD, company reports, and country profiles.
SAGE Journals Online
SAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present.

PsycArticles
Full-text of 50+ psychology journals, most published by the American Psychological Association. (Note: All full-text articles can also be accessed by searching the much larger PsycINFO database.)
PsycINFO
The PsycINFO database, produced by the American Psychological Association’s (APA), contains 3 million+ records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600's. Journal coverage spans from the 1800's to the present and includes material from 2,500+ international periodicals in all fields relating to psychology.
Psychiatry Online
A web-based portal featuring DSM-V - the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world - and The American Journal of Psychiatry, along with a variety of other popular psychiatry journals, textbooks, news and more.
Cabell's Journalytics
Online directory for scholarly publishing opportunities in various subject areas. Directories for BUSINESS COLLEGE SET and EDUCATIONAL SET can be found under Journalytics.

K-12 Magazines

Flipster is a digital newsstand that allows you to read magazines on your computer or mobile device.

Magazines can be downloaded to Android™ phones and tablets, Apple® phones and tables, and Kindle Fire tablets for offline reading.

Key Journals

Pre K-12
Special Education

Google Scholar (Search and Export Citations)

Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.com) allows you to search for relevant scholarly information across many disciplines and sources.

If you search Google Scholar on-campus, you will be automatically linked to full-text articles which are in the Library databases. From off-campus, you must link to Iona University Library Databases from Google Scholar.

Instructions for linking to Iona University Library Databases from Google Scholar

Go to Settings (three bars on top left of the page)
Click on Library Links
Type in Iona University

How do Google Scholar Library Links work?

When you search Google Scholar, you'll see Find full-text @ Iona links in the results. Sometimes these links will appear to the right of the result, and other times the links will be hidden at the bottom of the result -- to unhide (or expand), click the double arrows.

You still need to log in (authenticate) with your Iona user id and password after clicking Find full-text @ Iona. Full text is not guaranteed. Iona full-text holdings are constantly being updated, and sometimes Google's inventory of our catalog may not be in sync. If an article isn't available full-text, please request via ILL.

To configure exporting citations from Google Scholar to Refworks

Go to Settings (three bars on top left of the page).
Locate the Bibliography Manager
Select RefWorks from the drop-down menu next to Show links to import citations into.
Click on Save.
When you locate an article that you would like to export to RefWorks, click on Cite and select RefWorks to export.

More about Google Scholar:

Click on the double rights arrows (>>) to see all the access options.

Full view = Takes you directly to the full-text of the article in a library database or publisher web site
Library Search = Searches the Iona Library Catalog for the book titles, this option will not appear for articles
Find Full Text@ Iona = Takes you to full-text citation finders where it will direct you to an ILL form or the full-text
Cached = Refers to old snapshots of articles that Google has indexed
All Versions = Shows different formats (preprint, journal, repository) of the same academic work
Cited by = Articles Referencing the original