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General Education Databases

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
An authoritative database of education literature and resources, considered an essential tool for education researchers of all kinds.
Education Research Complete
Full-text education journals covering all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education, plus multilingual education, health education and testing.
Academic Search Complete & Elite
Leading resource for scholarly research in key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Contains over 12,000 journals covering many areas within science, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and technology.
The Deakin Review of Children's Literature
The Deakin Review of Children’s Literature is an electronic quarterly review of contemporary English-language materials of interest to children and young adults.

Child Care in Practice
Concerned with all disciplines relating to children's services, from social care to health care, medicine to psychology, education, the police and probationary services, to solicitors and barristers.
Child: Care, Health, and Development
Promotes the study of all children, but particularly those handicapped by physical, developmental, emotional, and social problems. Looks at expansion of effective programs of health promotion, care, and treatment.
Child Development
Articles of interdisciplinary empirical research, theoretical articles and reviews that have theoretical implications for child developmental research selected through blind review.

Early Childhood Education
Publishes articles on curriculum, child care programs, administration, staff development, family-school relationships, equity issues, multicultural units, health nutrition, facilities, special needs, employer-sponsored care, and infant/toddler programs.
Early Education and Development
Presents empirical research in early childhood education and child development, with emphasis on practical implications for practitioners

Select content of this guide was researched and compiled by Anastasia Piltingsrud, a NorQuest Library Assistant and MLIS candidate at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Alberta.

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