Research Guides: Education Policy & Education Reform: Home

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Subjects: Communication Sciences and Disorders, Counselor Education, Education, Education Reform, Human Resource Development, Occupational Therapy, Public Health, Public Policy

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This guide contains information to help you navigate through useful library resources related to Education Policy and Ed Reform. This guide is intended for students, faculty, and other researchers.

Studies at the UA include, for example, higher education administration, student affairs, educational leadership, and educational policy.

The following pages will aid in general library research, finding books and articles, professional resources, such as associations and their publications, and managing your citations. Please contact us for further help and give us feedback on this guide.

Education Policy & Education Reform Resources

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Covers: mostly 1990s- with some content back to the 19th century. A general research database that includes both popular magazines and scholarly journals. Offers academic and trade journals, popular magazines as well as some books, reports, and websites. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for some journals.
Cabell's Education Directory This link opens in a new window
Provides a directory of journals in the fields of curriculum and methods, educational psychology and administration, and educational technology and library science. Cabell's gives in-depth information on acceptance rates, manuscript guidelines, relative prestige, and the intended audience.
ERIC (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
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Covers: 1966-. Complete database on educational materials from the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). ERIC indexes two different kinds of publication: journal articles and ERIC Documents or reports.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
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Covers: 1930s-. Designed for professional educators, this database provides full text from education journals as well as educational reports.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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Offering scholarly journal and magazine articles, newspapers, and other types of publications, ProQuest Central brings together 30 of ProQuest's most highly used databases. Includes scholarly journal articles, newspapers and trade magazines, books, and books.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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Covers 1887-. Provides access to the international literature in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences, including psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, pharmacology, and linguistics. Indexes journals, as well as books, technical reports, dissertations, and other materials.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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Offers full-text electronic books in three categories:
those purchased by your UA librarians,
subscribed titles from the large Academic Complete collection,
and subscribed titles from the Arkansas State Library Traveler program, including College Complete, Schools and Educators Complete, and Public Library Complete.
Ebsco eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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A collection of full-text electronic books purchased by the University Libraries.
Google Books This link opens in a new window
A growing collection of records for both recent and long out-of-print titles. Because a search may retrieve results from the full-text of many books, Google Books is most useful in helping you to identify titles of interest in your research. A number of popular magazines and government documents have also been added to the Google Books service.
WorldCat Discovery This link opens in a new window
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Describes items published since about 1000 and owned by libraries around the world. Types of publications include: books, journals, maps, slides, computer data files, magazines, musical scores, sound recordings, computer programs, manuscripts, newspapers, videotapes, bibliographies, master's theses, doctoral dissertations, and software. Items not held by the University Libraries may often be requested on ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan).
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WorldCat.org is open to all to use.
Describes items published since about 1000 and owned by libraries around the world. Types of publications include: books, journals, maps, slides, computer data files, magazines, musical scores, sound recordings, computer programs, manuscripts, newspapers, videotapes, bibliographies, master's theses, doctoral dissertations, and software. Items not held by the University Libraries may often be requested on ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan).

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Covers: 1861- with comprehensive full text from 1997-. Provides citations to and full text of millions of works. It includes citations dissertations and theses back to the 18th century and full text for dissertations and theses from the 1990s to the present. See the More info link for exact coverage of UofA theses and dissertations in this database.
Dissertations that are not available for free download online can be borrowed free of charge via Interlibrary Loan.
EThOS: Electronic Theses Online Service This link opens in a new window
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Covers: 1970s- with some earlier documents. A cooperative project of the British Library, higher education institutions in Britain, and the Center for Research Libraries, EThOS serves as a gateway to theses written in the UK. Record date back to the 17th century, and a growing number of theses have been digitized for immediate delivery via the web.
Foreign Doctoral Dissertations (Center for Research Libraries) This link opens in a new window
Covers: 1900- .Search the CRL (Center for Research Libraries) collection of foreign theses and dissertations. CRL is a cooperative collection of esoteric materials. Because the LIbraries are CRL members you may borrow materials on Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad).Search by author, translated title, institution, country, year, or subject keyword. The University of Arkansas is a member of CRL and researchers can borrow these materials via Interlibrary Loan.

Professional Associations

American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Seeks to improve the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results
National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE)
Strengthens state leadership in educational policymaking, promotes excellence in the education of all students, advocates for equality of access to educational opportunity, and assures continued citizen support for public education. Nonprofit, private association with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status that represents state and territorial boards of education.

National and State Policies

SRI's Center for Education Policy
Researches educational policy at the local, state, and national levels to identify potential improvements in education and to translate that information to policymakers for their decisions about public investments in the education system from preschool through college
Division of Elementary and Secondary Education
"The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is a division of the Arkansas Department of Education which provides leadership, support and service to schools, districts and communities so every student graduates prepared for college, career, and community engagement."
National Information Center for Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis
Offers timely and accurate data and information that are relevant to higher education policy decisions