Guides: Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Counseling: Databases, Journals, and Articles

Key Education Databases

Education Source
Education Source is the most authoritative resource for the study of education, covering over 1,700 journals, books, and over 4 million articles.
ERIC
Provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Professional Development Collection
Highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.
Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in the database are peer-reviewed.
Educational Administration Abstracts
Over 60 thousand records on education administrations and related research areas.

Other Databases

Academic Search Complete
Designed for academic institutions, this database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
Primary Search
Primary Search is a full-text database of curated content for elementary school libraries. It includes full text for popular children's magazines, e-books, and easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids.
PsycINFO
Psychology journal coverage from 1887 to the present, including more than 1,700 periodicals in 35 languages
SocINDEX with Full Text
The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database.

Statistics and Social Science Instruments

Statista: The Statistics Portal
Statista aggregates the most important statistics and studies from market researchers, organizations, special publications as well as government platforms. With over 1-million statistics from 600+ areas: market data, consumer data, revenue figures and trends.
Proquest Statistical Insight
Provides access to statistics produced by business, Federal and State agencies, as well as other intergovernmental organizations.
PsycTests
Professionally indexed, this database is an extensive collection of psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments essential to the research needs of professionals, students, and educators across the behavioral and social sciences.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Bibliographic coverage of a wide variety of evaluation and measurement tools for health and psychosocial studies.

Journals

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Top 5 educational psychology journals with the highest 5-year impact factor rankings in Journal Citation Reports

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