Education Research Complete  includes all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.    It also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.

Fully searchable via Library Search and the full text is directly available.
It contains the full text of over 1,300 journals and 2,500 education related conference papers and access to over 500 ebooks.
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The British Education Index provides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Strengths include aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs.
It covers all aspects of education from preschool to higher education. Sources include education and training journals, mostly published in the UK, although some international literature is included.

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ERIC (Education Resource Information Centre)  provides access to education literature and resources and is sponsored by the US Department of Education.

It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1.3 million items including journal articles, books, technical reports, research, policy and conference papers, and grey literature.  It links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Fully searchable via Library Search, but direct access to full text may come from the ERIC external database or other subscribed content.
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Education Abstracts (HW Wilson)  provides indexing and abstracts for more than 680 periodicals and yearbooks, dating as far back as 1983.
Books on education published after 1995 are also indexed.
Coverage includes adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more.

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Educational Administration Abstracts includes records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other key areas.

The index contains more than 190,000 records dating back to 1966.  Coverage includes important sources within the discipline, such as: Educational Administration Quarterly, Review of Higher Education, Journal of Educational Administration.

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Child Development & Adolescent Studies, produced by NISC, is today’s source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21.
Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed. More than 342,000 records are included with over 10,000 new records added each year.

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Large full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals and covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, counselling, and observational and experimental methods.

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Global NewsStream provides access to national and regional UK newspapers.  Plus access to international newspaper titles such as The New York Times and the The Bangkok Post.

Major educational stories are often covered in more detail by The Times Educational Supplement (TES) than by the UK national press.  Together with The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), it provides a comprehensive picture of Britain’s education system, from primary to higher.

Access to the full text of Times Educational Supplement and  Times Higher Educational Supplement (THES) is included from Jan 2008 to the present day.  However, there is a 6 month embargo period for the latest full text material and so print copies of both newspapers are kept at St Peters library.

To search these specifically Select Newsstream from the database A-Z listing.  Click on ‘Publications’ above the search box, search the publications listing and click to search within these sources.

If you would like to learn some tips and tricks for searching in Newsstream, have a look at this guide on getting started.

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Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an on-demand TV & Radio streaming service for education and research. It contains over 2 million broadcasts from over 65 free-to-air channels including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, BBC Parliament and more.  You can find a complete list of channels here .

What could I use BoB for?

BoB offers transcripts for television programmes, which is great for in depth keyword searching of Education policy debated in Parliament.  It is also great for enhancing your subject knowledge as well as using in presentations and microteaches on campus.

Some examples include:

• How the Victorians Changed the Way We Live, Channel 5, Saturday, 6 Jul 2019
• Britain’s Biggest Primary School, Channel 5, Wednesday, 11 Mar 2015
• Victoria Derbyshire (special needs cuts), BBC News 24, Tuesday, 2 Oct 2018

New to BoB? Check out this BoB tutorial for help on getting started, making playlists & clips, how to embed videos on Canvas and more.