For EDUC 970: Dissertation Literature Review, you will want to search several databases for your literature review. Depending on your specific topic, the following databases will be the most useful. See the library's A-Z Databases list for all available databases. You can also search for specific journals using the library's Journals A-Z tool.
Academic Search Elite is an academic database that includes many full text articles. It can be used to search for topics including the humanities, social sciences, education, computer science, political science, general science, health science, gender studies, psychology and psychiatry, ethnic and multicultural studies.
CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
ERIC is an index to journal articles and reports on education. Some full text is available.
Quickly determine publishing trends, key authors and institutions, and journals that have published articles on a topic. Over 21,000 peer-reviewed journals and 134,000 books are covered, with 17.2 million open-access records containing full-text links, across multiple disciplines
When searching for articles, Google Scholar can be used as a supplement. Unlike PubMed or other databases, there is no quality control in terms of the content that is retrieved in a search. Results may include citations to journal articles, books/book chapters, conference papers, dissertations, or scholarly work that has been deposited in institutional repositories. Evaluate search results carefully. Refer to the "Evaluating Journal Quality" tab for more information about how to evaluate academic journals.
A useful feature of Google Scholar is there may be full-text links to articles that may not be reflected in database searches in PubMed or other databases. You can also customize the settings to show a "Find it @ BCHS" when full-text may be available via the BCHS library. In the screenshot below, there are several articles with [PDF] or an [HTML] link to the right. The 4th item shows an example of the "Find it @ BCHS" link. Click on the PDF at the top of this box for instructions on how to set the library link.
Depending on your research topic, there may be other databases from the disciplines of business, education, and the social sciences that are available at other academic libraries. Here are some examples:
The above databases are available at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As a student, you can obtain a library card, and you can search the databases at UNL.
Cochrane-Woods Library at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, NE has the following databases: