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Important Reports & Books

Recommendation by ERI

Literature Review Starter
Start at the beginning with these literature review steps and search strategies

Plus video and understanding Annual Reviews

What is a Lit Review by UCSC

Tips & Tools: Literature Reviews by UNC at Chapel Hill

The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It by University of Toronto

Welcome Researchers!

Welcome to the collaboration of the UCI Libraries and the Education Research Initiative (ERI) team.

Please use this website as a resource and reference for titles the UCI community has access to; in addition to recommendations by ERI on pursuing education research.

Please reach out to the librarians for any follow up consultations.

~Happy searching!

Select Databases

ERIC via ProQuest*
Largest database of education related material in the world. Not fantastic for finding curricula, but great for finding and describing the effects of curricular change.
LearnTechLib
Web of Science*
Web of Science will help you find scholarly articles on many different subjects.
Scopus*
Use Scopus to find articles from technology and the social sciences for an interdisciplinary approach to research.

Educational Researcher
Educational Researcher (ER) publishes scholarly articles that are of general significance to the education research community and that come from a wide range of areas of education research and related disciplines. ER aims to make major programmatic research and new findings of broad importance widely accessible.
Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory
Entries on topics of theoretical and practical interest in educational theory and philosophy by authoritative world scholars representing the full ambit of education as a rapidly expanding global field of knowledge and expertise.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
Purpose is to enhance the practice and theory of qualitative research in education, with “education” defined in the broadest possible sense, including non-school settings.
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
Multidisciplinary in perspective, this quarterly journal offers insights into theory and research that can help guide the efforts of institutions of higher education in the pursuit of inclusive excellence.
Urban Education
This ground-breaking publication provides thought-provoking commentary on key issues from gender-balanced and racially diverse perspectives.

Anthropology & Education Quarterly
This journal draws on anthropological theories and methods to examine educational processes in and out of schools, in US and international contexts. Articles rely primarily on ethnographic research to address immediate problems of practice as well as broad theoretical questions.
Journal of Educational Psychology
Original, primary psychological research pertaining to education across all ages and educational levels.
American Psychologist
Publishing timely high-impact articles of broad interest, papers include empirical reports and scholarly reviews covering science, practice, education, and policy.

Cultural Studies of Science Education
Examines science education as a cultural, cross-age, cross-class, and cross-disciplinary phenomenon.
Environmental Education Research
Advance research-based and scholarly understandings of environmental and sustainability education published via scholarship on all aspects of environmental education, sourced from around the world and diverse schools of thought and practice in inquiry.
Journal of Chemistry Education
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Includes: Report of New England Association of Chemistry Teachers, and: Proceedings of the Pacific Southwest Association of Chemistry Teachers
BioScience
From the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Original articles on experimental studies, correlation studies, studies of new instruments, critical reviews of the literature, position papers, theoretical formulations and ethnographic studies.

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