Library Guides: Education Research Guide: Using this Guide& Asking Questions

How to Use This Guide

This guide includes the library's resources in Education.

The tabs include resources/databases for:

Primary Sources - streaming media, images, data.
Articles & Books - Journal Articles and books on education topics
Topic Overviews & Bibliographies - Background information, synopses, and curated bibliographies
Writing & Citing - Resources for writing better papers

Below are quick links to databases:

Education Source
Covers all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specializations, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Full text and abstracts for journals, books, and conference papers.
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Searches citation indexes in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. Includes "cited by" feature and allows sorting by citation count.

Need help refining your research question(s)?

Ideas Mapping (2:53 min.)
This video helps with organizing many ideas into independent research questions and logical starting points.

To Search the resources and databases linked on this guide from your laptop, you'll need to enter your CRUZ ID and Gold Password when prompted. You can go a step further and install the campus VPN for more reliable access. We need to login so that we can access PDF attachments and ebook from behind the paywall.

VPN Client Installation
Use this secure and reliable login to access the Library's resources. You will need to install the VPN and login with your CRUZ ID and Gold Password. Use Ask Us to let us know if something isn't working.