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.
This comprehensive resource is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students, providing extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines.
PubMed is provided by the National Library of Medicine covering the fields of Nursing, Anesthesia, Medicine and Health Professions. Click on the "Get it @ Bryan" button for access to full text (if available) or the article request form.
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
The following video introduces searching in Web of Science, useful filters for results, and how to access full text of articles.
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The video below will show you how to do citation chaining, also known as the "snowball method," using Web of Science.
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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: