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Education Resources: Getting Started

Reference sources, books, e-books, book reviews, and peer-reviewed journals in Education.

Where do I begin?

This research guide will help to meet the following objectives:

  • Learn how to construct an effective search for information.
  • Learn which type of information source is effective for which part of a search.
  • Learn which library databases contain information on specific subjects.
  • Learn how to search for peer-reviewed sources.
  • Learn how to cite sources.
  • Explore topics unique to education such as Children's Literature.

Two other Research Guides will assist you with your research and writing the paper about it:

Beginning Research and Writing

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