UCF Research Guides: Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education Databases: Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education Databases

Best Bets

APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)
"contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage
Education Source (EBSCOhost)
ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966+)
ERIC is available from several database vendors, including ProQuest. UCF students are advised to use ERIC in EBSCOhost, which provides many links to full text and allows users to search multiple education databases simultaneously. Users who are not UCF students are advised to use ERIC from DOE because no login is required.
Professional Development Collection Education (EBSCOhost)
"This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals."
Teacher Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
"96% of journals indexed in the database are peer-reviewed. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education."
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
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Citation Indexes for finding articles that cite a given author or citation.
- Science Citation Index Expanded (1965+)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1965+)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975+)

Citation Connection is now available. This includes:
- Data Citation Index (1900+)
- Derwent Innovations Index – Patents Database (1963+)
- Book Citation Index: Scholarly Books (2005+)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990+)
- Index Chemicus (IC) (1989+)
- Current Chemical Reactions (1993+)
- Current Contents Connect (1998+)

Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education Databases

Relevant Databases

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) provides information about behavioral measurement tools used across diverse professions and disciplines, including medicine, nursing, public health, psychology, social work, sociology, communication, and organizational behavior. HaPI helps researchers, students, and clinicians locate questionnaires, interviews, and other tests relevant to their investigations, theses, dissertations, and grant proposals and helps researchers to enhance the quality, reliability, and validity of their measurement techniques.
JSTOR
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCOhost) (1985+)
SAGE Journals
Springer LINK
Disciplines include:
- Architecture & Design
- Astronomy
- Biomedical Sciences
- Business & Management
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Earth Sciences & Geography
- Economics
- Education & Language
- Energy
- Engineering
- Environmental Sciences
- Food Science & Nutrition
- Law
- Life Sciences
- Materials
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Sciences
- Statistics
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Taylor & Francis Journals (T&F)
You can search and browse the journals and reference works on Taylor & Francis Online for free. Use advanced search to restrict to "Only content I have full access to" unless you want to request articles through Interlibrary Loan since UCF's subscription only includes some journals, one reference work, and none of the abstract databases.
Journal subject coverage includes:
- Area Studies
- Arts
- Behavioral Sciences (includes Archive Collection)
- Bioscience
- Built Environment
- Communication Studies
- Computer Science (includes Archive Collection)
- Development Studies
- Earth Sciences
- Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
- Education (includes Archive Collection)
- Engineering & Technology (includes Archive Collection)
- Environment & Agriculture
- Environment & Sustainability
- Food Science & Technology
- Geography
- Health & Social Care
- Humanities
- Information Science
- Language & Literature
- Law
- Mathematics & Statistics
- Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health
- Museum & Heritage Studies
- Physical Sciences (includes Chemistry Archive Collection)
- Politics & International Relations
- Social Sciences
- Sports & Leisure
- Tourism, Hospitality & Events
- Urban Studies

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Dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+)
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"ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content."
DART-Europe E-theses Portal
Dissertations (Center for Research Libraries)
EThOS -- e-Theses Online Service (British Library)
"There are approximately 380,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 260,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility."
Global ETD Search
Open Access Theses & Dissertations (OATD)
Theses Canada
Trove (National Library of Australia)
WorldCat Dissertations & Theses (FirstSearch)
Provides access to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses. Also available via WorldCat.org by performing an advanced search and selecting Thesis/dissertation in the content box.

Research Guides and Other Resources

Legal Resources

Nexis Uni - Education
Education Law -- Florida Cases -- Florida Statutes & Administrative Code -- Florida Administrative Hearings & Decisions
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (H.W. Wilson)* (print only)
-UCF online access ended on Dec. 31, 2018 due to funding.
-Print index UCF Main Library Reference Collection K 9 .N75 (1926-1994)
-Print index UCF Main Library Reference Collection K 9 .N75 (1994-2004)
LegalTrac (Gale OneFile) (1980+)

Yearbook of Education Law / Yearbook of School Law
Call Number: UCF Main Library Reference -- KF 4102.5 .Y4 (1972+)
Online editions 1997+
ch4ck availability of print editions (1988+)
ch4ck availability of print editions (1972-1987)
federal and state cases
Typical annual chapters: School Governance -- Employees -- Students -- Bargaining -- Students with Disabilities -- Torts -- Sports -- Higher Education -- Students in Higher Education -- Federal & State Legislation
Special Chapters: 2021 - COVID | 2020 - Polish Education Law | 2019 - Taiwan | 2018 - Nigeria; Sweden | 2017 - Hungary; South Africa; Vietnam | 2015 - England; Spain; China | 2014 - Canada; Turkey; Brazil | 2013 - Netherlands; South Africa | 2012 - Germany; Malaysia; Russia | 2011 - Australia; China; England

Social Aspects

Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest) (1979+)
Social Work Abstracts (EBSCOhost) (1965+)
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) (1952+)
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Statistics

Florida's PK-20 Education Reports & Resources (Florida Department of Education)
Education Data Warehouse (Florida Department of Education)
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
U.S. Department of Education Research & Statistics
Laws
"Legislation, regulations, guidance, and other policy documents can be found here for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, No Child Left Behind, and other topics."

Tests & Measurements

Buros Center for Testing
ETS ReSEARCHER
ETS Test Collection
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) provides information about behavioral measurement tools used across diverse professions and disciplines, including medicine, nursing, public health, psychology, social work, sociology, communication, and organizational behavior. HaPI helps researchers, students, and clinicians locate questionnaires, interviews, and other tests relevant to their investigations, theses, dissertations, and grant proposals and helps researchers to enhance the quality, reliability, and validity of their measurement techniques.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCOhost) (1985+)

Videos

Academic Video Online Premium (AVON) (Alexander Street)
Extensive collection of streaming videos in many genres and disciplines.
Education in Video (Alexander Street)
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"includes hundreds of in-classroom videos on key teaching topics and themes from the most respected education publishers worldwide."
Florida PBS Learning Media
"PBS LearningMedia provides PreK-12 educators with access to free digital content and professional development opportunities designed to improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement."