British
Education Index (BEI)
The British Education Index is a subscription database of information about
UK literature which supports educational research, policy and practice, alerting
interested parties to the existence and availability of useful reading matter.
British
Academy Portal
PORTAL is the British Academy's directory of online resources in the
humanities and social sciences.
British
Library
The British
Library is one of the world's great knowledge institutions. It holds
over 150 million items from every age of global civilisation, from historical
documents to the latest information for business and research.
BUBL
Information Service
The BUBL Information Service offers free user-friendly access to selected
internet resources covering all subject areas, with a special focus
on library and information science.
C2-SPECTR
(Social, Psychological, Educational, and Criminological Trials Register)
C2-SPECTR is a registry of over 10,000 randomized and possibly
randomized trials in education, social work and welfare, and criminal
justice.
Community
of Science, Inc. (COS)
Community of Science, Inc. (COS) is the leading Internet site for the global
R&D community. COS provides tools and services that enable these professionals
to communicate, exchange information and find the people and technologies that
are important to their work.
Current
Educational Research in the UK (CERUK)
CERUK is a database, sponsored by NFER, DfES and the EPPI Centre (The
Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre),
that seeks to include all recently completed and ongoing research in
the United Kingdom, from large sponsored programmes to individual projects.
Database
of Social Science Assessment Instruments
Helen Hough, the Health Sciences Librarian at the University of
Texas at Arlington, has compiled a free and useful index to many assessment
instruments as found fulltext in printed texts.
The
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information
system designed to provide ready access to an extensive body of education-related
literature.
ERIC
Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
The
ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation is one of 16 subject-oriented
clearinghouses operated by the United States Department of Education, Office
of Educational Research and Improvement.
ERIC
PlusText
ERIC PlusText is an indispensable source of information for both professional
educators and students who need to keep up with the latest teaching concepts,
methodologies, and findings.
Evidence
Network
The Evidence Network is a focus point for evidence based policy and practice
research in the UK.
ISI
Web of Science
The ISI Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation
Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™.
Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC)
The Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC) promotes the innovative application and use of information
systems and information technology in further and higher education across the
UK.
RDN
Virtual Training Suite
RDN Virtual Training Suite is a set of online tutorials designed to help
students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information literacy
and IT skills.
Regard
Regard is an online database containing information on social science
research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Sage
Publications
Sage Publications is a leading international publisher of books, journals,
and electronic media.
SARA
- Scholarly Articles Research Alerting
SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - is a service designed to deliver
by email, tables of contents for any issue of Carfax, Martin Dunitz, Psychology
Press, Routledge, Spon Press or Taylor & Francis journals.
The
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
SOSIG is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted
source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics,
researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.
