Library

Studying on the Glasgow Campus

This guide is for students looking studying with the School of Education & needing information to support coursework and research. These pages provide information on the following types of resources you might need to use & links to guides on how to find them! 

• Books and journal articles - how to find books, articles and other resources to find books on various education topics using Library Search
• Education databases that help you discover education-related articles by subject
• Other types of useful information -statistics, goverment documents, newspapers from a variety of sources.

Finding books and journal articles using Library Search

Library Search is quick and easy to use. It’s a bit like Google or Google Scholar but with direct access to many of subscribed resources. You only need to take three steps:

• Enter search terms or phrases into the single search box
• Refine results by date, subject, books, articles etc.
• View results, and link directly to full text or more information

Education Databases

Databases provide access to high-quality peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, dissertations and other sources. When carrying out your research, depending on whether you are searching for materials for an essay or a dissertation or thesis, you may need to search more than one database to find all of the journal articles relevant to your topic, as each database covers different journals. You can access the Education databases from the two links below.

• All Education Databases
• Key Education Databases

Multidisciplinary Databases

Given the wide range of programs offered by the School of Education and the multidisciplinary nature of educational research, it may be necessary to find information from the wider Social Sciences literature rather than the Education specific databases.

There are also a few database platforms which provide access to literature from across the wide-range of social sciences subject areas:

• Social Science Premium Collection on ProQuest Academic contains a number of useful individual databases, including Applied Social Sciences Index and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• JSTOR. Provides full-text online access to selected scholarly journals in the fields of social sciences including, economics, political science, demography etc.  Click on the Advanced Search option on the JSTOR homepage to narrow to Social Sciences subjects.  
• Web of Science - Core Collection Provides access to over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities dating back to 1900.  Click on More Setting tab on the Web of Science Core Collection homepage and narrow to Social Science Citation Index only.

The Library subscribes to hundreds of subject specific databases across social sciences (Business & Management, Economics, Education, Politics and Sociology)  - you can access from databases by subject page on the Library website

Other types of useful information

At times, you may need other types of information, for example: government documents, statistics, papers from international agencies such as UN, EU, etc, or access to print or broadcast media (newspapers & tv). This type of material is not always indexed by Library Search or the specialist Education & Social Sciences databases. There are a number of specialist databases (see below) for this type of material, but often the easiest way to access can be to go to the websites of the organisations that produce them!

• Teachers TV - a large collection of online education videos on all aspects of curriculum. This material is available to stream online.
• BOB -  choose and record any broadcast programme from 65+ free-to-air TV and radio channels. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely (no expiry) and added to a growing media archive (currently at over 2 million programmes), with all content shared by users across all subscribing institutions. 
• Nexis - Newspaper database providing acces to over 1000 UK and Irish titles including The Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Times, Herald, Scotsman as well as hundreds of regional titles. Over 1200 International titles including: Le Monde, New York Times, Washington Post, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, La Stampa, El Pais & Le Figaro
• Public Information Online (PIO) - provides access to all Parliamentary publications from the UK & Scottish Parliaments