Subject Guides: Education: Welcome

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Welcome to the Subject Guide for Education

These pages bring together key resources and information for Education.

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Welcome to the Subject Guide for Education

These pages bring together key resources and information for Education.

Use the tabs above to Find resources, Evaluate what you've found and Organise your work. You'll also find lots of help and advice on the Tutorials and guides tab.

Study space

If you're looking for a study space, check out our live seating availability table. This includes alternative spaces to study in IT classrooms and spaces across campus.

Seating availability

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Key databases

British Education Index (EBSCO)
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The British Education Index provides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Strengths include aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs. It covers all aspects of education from preschool to higher education. Sources include education and training journals, mostly published in the UK, plus conference papers and internet grey literature. Some international literature is included.

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ERIC (EBSCO)
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The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to augment American education by increasing and facilitating the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. The database is updated monthly.

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Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest)
The Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations. The database is updated monthly.

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