Educating for Sustainability

Recommended Databases

Available to current students, staff, and faculty of Antioch University New England and the Leadership & Change PhD program of Antioch University.

  • ERIC* Comprehensive index to information for education and related fields...citations for journal articles, books, master's projects, lesson plans, and more. Provides full text of many articles and ERIC documents.
  • Education Research Complete* Full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
  • Education Full Text Education Full Text indexes core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks in education. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based, and information technology.
  • Environment Complete* Covers agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Provides full text for many of the most used journals in the discipline, and for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.
  • Sustainability Science Abstracts Explores all aspects of sustainable development, human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. More information here.
  • WorldCat A catalog of the contents of libraries worldwide. Use this catalog as a comprehensive index to books on any subject or by a favorite author. WorldCat will tell you which libraries own a book; if we don't own it, request it through Interlibrary Loan and we'll try to get it for you! (WorldCat does not include individual articles or book chapters.)
  • Academic Search Complete* Scholarly, multidisciplinary database. Contains full text of many articles.

* These are all EBSCO databases, which means you can search in them all at the same time if you wish.
When you have logged into one of these databases, look for the "Choose databases" option

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Then select the other databases you wish to include in your search

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Complete list of databases available through AUNE Library.

Other Subject Guides to check out

Web Sites

Organizations | Databases | Websites | Alerts | Open Access Journals | Other Tips

Information for Alumni of AUNE Education programs

When you graduate from Antioch, you will no longer have access to our subscription resources or library services [alumni have limited borrowing privileges for books, but that's about it]. However, there are other ways to get access to information in your field.

Organizations

Membership in professional organizations usually includes subscriptions to their main publications. For example, members of the National Middle School Association receive Middle School Journal and Middle Ground magazine.

Databases

  • Educators are very fortunate that ERIC, the primary database for education-related material, is freely available on the web. You can continue to search ERIC here (although it has a different search interface than what you've used at Antioch). In addition, the full text of many documents is available for free through this version of ERIC.
  • Award-Winning Children's Literature Over 4,000 titles covering 50 different awards for the best in children's literature.
  • Children's Picturebook Database Searchable database of over 5000 children's picture book abstracts.
  • International Children's Digital Library "...a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world. The collection's focus is on identifying materials that help children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live."
  • WorldCat, library catalog to the planet, is freely available and the best place to keep up with what books are being published on any topic.

Other websites

  • You are probably already aware of the wealth of information available for educators on the web. As a jumping-off point, you can still use the list of sites we post on the Education research guides (General Education; Lesson Plans).
  • Often government websites have links to current, full text information. Try Ed.gov, the US Dept of Education website, where you'll find full text PDFs on everything from helping students survive traumatic events to how to get preschoolers ready to read.
  • The Internet Public Library is a fabulous portal to all kinds of information.
  • Google Scholar is a good alternative to Google for finding scholarly literature. It definitely cuts down on the number of results to wade through, and will point you to better information than Google. You will occasionally find links to full text.

TOCs online and Alerts

Many if not most journals provide abstracts online for new and recent issues; and many provide free email TOC [Table of Contents] alerts. At the journal's website you can sign up to receive regular announcements of what's being published. Occasionally journals even put their most recent issue (or more) online; it's worth going to a journal's website to check out just what you can get. JournalSeek has a huge list of journals in all aspects of the various fields of education and links to their websites.

Open access journals

Other tips

  • Use the Interlibrary Loan service of whatever library you are affiliated with.
  • Check to see what access to state university libraries your state might provide for residents.
  • If you've used RefWorks, you might want to investigate Zotero. RefWorks is not available to AUNE alumni. Zotero is a similar kind of citation management program but it's free to anyone (anyone who uses Firefox). It's also much easier to use than RefWorks, and has uses beyond citations and bibliographies for papers!
  • It's hard to find time to keep up with all the ways there are of finding and sharing information, butblogs and listservs…judiciously and sparingly chosen!…can be great for keeping up with the more practical side of what's going on in your field.